Should religion stay in the area of spirituality, and not influence politics?

Laws are something everyone in a state or country has to follow; religion is not.

It’s hard for me to fathom that I once believed that god sent his son (who is also himself) to save the people he created (knowing they would one day sin) from a consequence he created, by sacrificing himself as a blood offering to fulfill a requirement that he also made. 😳

You are free to hold onto and find comfort in your beliefs the same way I am allowed to see the bigotry and oppression by the same beliefs.

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ~Anne Lamott

So why are christians deciding what rights people have? You know, the ones spewing "marriage is between Adam and Eve- not Adam and Steve." 🙄

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Pfuzylogic · M

I went to a seminar given by Barbara Jordan, a very well known representative of Congress from Texas. Her presentation was on the concept of separation of church and state. This was right after she stopped the confirmation of Bork SCOTUS nominee.
She stated that while there is no “official” religion of the government. There is a body of those who believe in the truth of the Christian religion and will follow their conscience when voting.
The alternative is to “believe” in science which is infamous of providing theories like the “big bang” and evolution which adherents swear to be true.

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@Pfuzylogic

At least it was always a theory and not forced upon people as fact. This is the true beauty of science vs belief. The term Big Bang was actually coined in 1949 by astronomer Fred Hoyle as a joke. He was mocking it.

Pfuzylogic · M

@Randi1125
I think using the term big bangers is funny since the theory was generated before Hubble and they never used the scientific principle of error analysis on the red shift Doppler effect. The Hubble LeMaitre Law notice I said Law and not theory wasn’t even based on scrutinized evidence and even now there are some stubborn “I’ll believe any crapp that those in science accuse religion of. I would even go so far as to say you know absolutely nothing about science and yet you coddle it and believe in it!