It's called Freedom of Religion


People are religious, but nations should be secular

So Newt Gingrich says that the United States is a Christian nation and Barak Obama says the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.

Both are absolutely wrong. And for the exact same reason.

Nations should not be religious. The United States in particular is a secular nation with a diverse population. It's not founded on ANY religious law.

People are religious. In a free country, the faith of a nation's officials should have very little to do with the the faith of individuals. Just because Obama claims to be Christian doesn't make me one.

Hint: look at the title of the blog.

As hard as it may be for some to accept, American freedoms aren't derived from religion. That's why the U.S. law can't require you to belong to a specific church, or any church.

That's why Christians can live with Muslims and Jews and atheists and those pesky Pagans and all the others.

It's called Freedom of Religion. And any politico who has to score cheap points by claiming that one faith is the true basis of the United States, just remember that it is a cheap shot.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - June 15, 2009 at 11:53 AM  Tag


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