On 25 Aug 2010 at 16:32, Arlo Bensinger wrote: [Arlo had asked] Does this trouble you? Would it trouble you if the faith mentioned was a non-Christian faith? Would it bother you more or less if the President (any) professed to being an atheist instead of a Christian?
[P] No, no and no. [Arlo] Let me see if I understand, if the same words were uttered about Obama's faith being "Muslim" rather than "Christian", you would have no problems with that at all? Why do you think so many people do? [P] Because most Muslims follow Islam where there is no separation of church and state. Wold you have a problem if Obama were a Muslim? If he tried to impose Sharia law? [Arlo had asked] In your condemnation of Islam for not having a separation of church and state, do you also condemn Christians who do not recognize this separation as well? Or is it "okay" when its Christians? [P] No, it is not OK regardless of one's faith, including atheists. [Arlo] I would agree that an Atheocracy would be as immoral as a Theocracy. [P] Good. Humanism should not rule any more than Islam or Christianity. [Arlo] But if "atheism" is on the "church" side of the separation, along with Christianity and Islam, what is on the state side? [P] The will of the people, limited by constitutional restrictions on government... [Arlo] If we should base our laws NOT on faith (where you include atheism), but on "something else", what should that "something else" be? What is it now? [P] The will of the people through their elected representatives. Do you think it should be something else? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
