On Aug 26, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Leland Jackson wrote:
All of my life, I have been taught the virtue of having government separate form religion. For example, this allows each American the freedom to worship a God of his/her own understanding, eliminate the threat of religious secretarian violence , civil war, and discrimination, provides equal justice under the law, regardless of religious beliefs, etc.
But when you know that your god is the right one, you're *helping* people by forcing them to follow him. All this diversity is the problem; what we need is government-mandated uniformity of thought and belief. Only then can we truly be free.
BTW, that's exactly the rationale used by Sayyid Q'utb, the spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden, and is the basis for the Taliban's approach to governing.
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