Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
—Beverly LaHaye (founder of Concerned Women of America)
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Sounds good to me. Beverly, I will not suffer a woman to teach.
But if you do that, then you won’t accept her message that we should run a country by Biblical values, which means there’s no reason not to accept the teachings of a woman, which means you should accept her teaching that the US is meant to be run according to the rules of the Bible, which means you shouldn’t listen to her because she’s a woman, which means…
Screw it, let’s just say it’s a Mystery.
You got me, John; I lol’d.
And to keep silent in church, too!
Is this the same woman whose husband openly preaches subjugation of women, who lives appart from her husband and whose openly gay son is CFO for Concerned Women of America?
Reeeeeaaaaally Biblical. Real Christian.
Do as I say, not as I do.
“America is a nation based on biblical principles.”
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This statement is easily proven a lie. What more do you need to know about this woman?
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/history_of_the_separation_of_chu.htm
Required reading: Faith of the Founding Fathers
Our 18th century daddies said quite a wide range of things about religion, and it’s evident that they often tailored their degree of apparent religiosity to fit the audience.
Notice that they never actually say which Biblical principles they are talking about. It can’t be the Ten Commandments because 8 of those are perfectly legal in the United States. The Bible, God, and Jesus aren’t even mentioned in the Constitution. I guess that our Founding Fathers didn’t consider them that important.
well, this is bass-ackwards.
Why did it take Christians 1776 years to get it right? Almost every kingdom in Europe was based on biblical principles. Many even had a cross on their flags. The governments built churches, religious schools and paid the clergy. But still many good Christian Europeans left these Christian countries for America.
Er, are you aware that the pilgrims fled Europe – not to escape persecution, as most Americans were taught – because the European powers wouldn’t let them persecute other people. They’s all seen what a shit-state Oliver Cromwell left Britain in and decided “Bollocks to that!”
Probably the reason that Southern Italy still resembles a third-world country – they’re still run by Christians.
It could also be related to the fact that mafia runs it: ok, mafia happen to be really catholic, but that’s not the only thing that characterizes them. Greece, Spain and Portugal are also very catholic countries and they… ok… you may get some point here…
I live in Spain and i don´t see a lot of evidence of that. I see a country that is moving away from the church quicker than any other, at all levels of society.
Me too.
But it never seems quick enough :-)
But since persecuting others is part of their religion then stopping them from it is religious persecution. Just like modern american christians are persecuted by an evil government that prevent them from shoving their skyfairy and pseudoscience into public schools.
Yeah, I thought the exact same thing about the gay marriage issue the other day. Church thinks that allowing them to persecute gays is the only way not to persecute the church…. Ah, circular logic….
Same ol’, same ol’. As easy to ignore as ever.
That’s funny, because Article VI, section 3 of the US Constitution says that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
For her to have known that, she would’ve had to have actually read the Constitution. How likely is that?
Oh my gosh! How can she be so out of touch with reality. Even with all that fundy influence the US isn’t a theocracy. Well, it kind of was during the Bush years, and look what happened.
“America is a nation based on biblical principles.” This is one of those statements that morons think is profound when it is actually just stating the obvious. The “principles” of the bible align with every society since the beginning of time. They are vague with a lot of open ended interpretation that promote a general social structure that frowns upon murder/rape/theft.
What a deep thinker. A social control mechanism that promotes….social control. How did you come up with that Mr. LaHaye!
“Biblical principles” is not the same as “Christian values”. She is trying to use the 2 statements as synonyms, when they are not. It is a well known fact that the founding fathers of our great nation as well as the major contributors to our well guarded constitution and bill of rights were non-christian theists and atheists alike.
This country was founded on religious freedom and the Christian Right’s attempt to topple that founding principle disgusts me.
Which bible exactly?