1213 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:53 am
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:24 am
1213 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:33 am
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:37 am
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I can only too easily see how you view it. A secularist authoritarianism to stifle any questioning of the dogma. Problem is, I see much more of that in religious fundamentalist countries than in secularist ones. Don't you?
I don't know any Christian fundamentalist country.
Fortunately....
Why do you think so? It seems to me that secularist countries are tyrannical and evil. Country that would live by Jesus teachings would in my opinion be much better.
While i might contend that secularist moral codes might be better, the problem with Christian fundamentalism is that it doesn't look at all like Jesus, but like everything he was criticizing, and that's without getting into the anti - scientific cult, the gimme that old time revision of rights and the control of thoughts, and that's even before we get to the political ramifications of politicized Christianity and the way it is hi - jacked by the greedy and unscrupulous.
You may protest that such is not your kind of Christianity, but it is theirs. I might propose that IF you oppose the threat of Christian fundamentalist temporal power, your real home is with the atheists in a secularist society where you can believe and preach what you like, and nobody with differing creeds can stop you, just as nobody could stop me arguing with the Creed, which would not be allowed in a Christian theocratic state.
"Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak up for me".
Separation of church and state and a secularist society means rights for all, including you.