[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Are 70% of Americans Conservative Evangelical Protestants? I have heard the same people who claim Christian solidarity when talking about "Christian America" deride Catholics as not really being Christians. I've heard those same people dismiss others who believe in God but support freedom of choice as "Liberal Christians". Evangelical Christians like to talk about America being founded as a Christian country, but in fact then, as today, people claiming to be religious where highly disparate and actually believed many different things.

Heh from what I read Protestants can hate each other as much as anyone else. Reminds me of an Emo Phillips routine.

There are "religious" people who also dislike having religious slogans on our money. While the statement itself may seem innocuous enough, if you ask any Evangelical Christian he'll tell you it doesn't mean some nebulous supreme being but the God of the Christian Bible specifically.

So? They aren't usually the ones ragging on the concept of religion itself.

In front of your own house? On your own property? Neither do I. In front of State buildings, which supposedly represent the whole population? I'm of two minds. On the one hand if it were my state I'd be trying to get it removed. On the other, if other states choose to keep flying the Stars & Bars I consider that to be their business, decided in-house and locally. They can bend to pressure, but should not be forced by outside influences to one action or another.

I pretty much agree although it's outside pressure that is mainly driving the current attempts to destroy all vestiges of the confederacy now apparently including town monuments and even the little flags that decorate the graves of their war dead on Memorial Day. It's this kind of over reach which increases resistance to even the small step of removing it from statehouse flag poles. I guess it's kinda like how the Federal Government use of troops to suppress the south solidified resistance even among southerners personally opposed to slavery.

I sometimes wonder what today's race relations would have been like if slavery had been allowed to die the economic death it was headed toward anyways instead of the earlier end that generated over a hundred years of racial hatred and tension.

Just the same as I support a woman's right to choose to have an abortion or not, even though I'm personally against it. Freedom is a tricky question, but it has to be honored in all circumstances.

Exactly.