Making Christianity "official"


Missouri flirts with theocracy
This is a tad too much.

Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state's official "majority" religion.

House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature.

Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday.

Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution.

The resolution would recognize "a Christian god," and it would not protect minority religions, but "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs.

Simple freedom test.

How would you feel if the law discriminated against you?

In this case, if Christianity wasn't the "majority," would those Christians accept that theirs wasn't the "official" religion?

Now, I can't and won't speak for anyone else. My issue is not with Christianity, it is with people using the law to raise their religion above all other beliefs. Simply put, the fact that some Christians feel the need to legally force their religion down everyone else's throat says more about their lack of faith than anything else. If you need the power of the law to justify your faith, you've got issues that go way beyond any religious discrimination.

Matters of faith MUST be freely chosen, or they are a farce. You must be free to make your own choice. Even if it's not the "approved" faith.

Especially if it's not the approved faith.

Hat tip to Wren's Nest.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - March 3, 2006 at 02:55 PM  Tag


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