What many fundamentalist and evangelical Christians want instead of Sharia law is
their own Christian version of Sharia law, which they continue to try to impose on everybody else as they have for centuries now.
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If you are opposed to separation of church and state, you are in favor of a Christian version of Sharia law.
There are shades of gray here. And this coming from someone who does indeed support separation of church and state, albeit perhaps not by your definition.
It is quite simple. This nation was founded on the basic precept of separation of church and state. It is about time the religious right finally decides to support and defend the basic tenets which this country was founded instead of trying to return us to the distant past. How the Bible falsely misinterprets the roles of females in society is completely irrelevant to any modern society. Trying to use it to determine our laws is very similar to imposing Sharia law on the unwilling.
Nobody is saying women shouldn't be legally allowed to do anything.
Even as a cold-blooded practical matter we don't have the kind of consensus we need for a "Biblical America" anymore.
What does this mean?
Anti-discrimination laws are needed. It's not such a problem if a restaurant doesn't want to serve TSA officers because, well there are plenty of other places they can go but in some situations if the majority of people will discriminate then it makes life difficult for certain people. In Turkey most people won't rent apartments to single people and it can take a long time to find an apartment because there's no housing discrimination laws in Turkey, or if there are they are not enforced or don't cover instances like this. If you wait months to find an apartment and have people over and over again openly turn you down then you would want to have laws to protect you.
Protect you from what? Being denied access to someone else's property? You clearly have no RIGHT to access someone else's property. So what I or anyone else would want is irrelevant. If I own it, I have the right to decide who the heck I want to rent it or sell it to or whatever.
As for TSA Agents, I don't care if their lives are miserable, at all. All of them deserve to be charged with treason for violation of the fourth amendment. Some of them deserve charges for sexual assault as well. I'll tell you where they can live... a prison cell.
(I have no idea if any TSA workers post here, nor do I care... Quit...)
The only difference is that they are willing to admit what they actually believe, while you continue to not do so despite having essentially same religious beliefs:
At least GW is willing to vote for atheists...
If they agree with me enough politically, yes. If faced with a direct choice between two equally qualified people, except that one was a Chrisitan and the other was an atheist, I'd pick the Christian but that's extremely unlikely to actually happen, especially for someone as radically opinionated as me. In practice, I'll vote for anyone who even broadly agrees with me politically, and that still leaves me few options in most cases. Gary Johnson would've been just barely good enough last year...
"You do realize" that virtually all modern societies have essentially the same laws, yet many of them are obviously not based on Christianity or the Bible. That both the US and Australia have secular governments, not theocratic ones.
Again... shades of gray? America still has plenty of morality enforcement laws, which I do not agree with. At the same time, murder is legal because to make it illegal would be to "Enforce Christian morality" or something. The American public is unwilling to legalize prostitution, yet is unwilling to totally and without exceptions outlaw murder. Just think about that.
That Christianity and the Bible are actually based on myths which are common with a multitude of different religions. That much the morality portrayed in the Bible, especially in the OT, ceased to be followed long ago for quite obvious reasons.
Not exactly correct.
The point is this. It doesn't really concern me in the least how you have decided to live your own life. But you can't try to tell me how to live mine based on those beliefs. That doing so by Christians is no different than Muslims doing the same thing, and even as the al-Qaeda is trying to do so as Cenk Uygar pointed out.
First of all, Al-Queda isn't trying to do that. Al-Queda is trying to get us the freak off the backs of the Middle East. I'm surprised you still haven't figured this out. Al-Queda doesn't give a crap what laws we have.
As for Sharia VS Christian law, as I've said, there's a difference in degree. It doesn't matter whether its Christians or Muslims, what matters is the degree. Just because gay marriage is illegal doesn't mean that everyone who converts from Islam or Christianity to something else is put to death. Just because we have laws against polygamy doesn't mean that everyone who has sex outside of marriage is also breaking the law. Just because drugs are illegal doesn't mean that we're going to have Prohibition of alcohol again. Exc. I'm pretty much the most radical "Shut up, tyrant!" type poster on here and even still I understand the concept of degree.
Coulter is a PR shill for the plutocrats. Nothing she says can be taken at face value.
For once I actually agree with you on something. Well, not sure if she's a PR shil., if anything she's hurting their PR. I only agree with about half of what's on most conservative talk radio but Ann Coulter is an idiot of the next level. I mean, the woman thought Romney would win freaking Illinois. Is she kidding me? Apparently not. Coulter lacks brains...
This is you discussing me again.
To be fair, its me that he was talking about
with active campaigns to create a set of laws forcing those that oppose them to live under their Christian principles.
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