Reply #82: Really? I think it is very easy top undestand [View All]

[Perky]

There are actually democratic undepinnings involveed. It a majoritarian view that it should not have to bend to the will of any other belief system held by a small minority.

But that is precisely why the establishment clause exists. The framers recognized that the Pilgrims fled religious tyranny in England fosited on small sects by Canterbury and sought to protect the right of all religious sects against the domination ny something akin to the Church of England. In fact it was something pled for by leading clergy of the day.

Christians as a whole, look at a state demand for religious diversity as undercutting thier relgious and free speech rights. What they fail to consider is that that was the bargain struck by the founders. The state does not support one religion over another so it may in so doing protectg the religious and free speech rights of every religious minority., and in response they are permitted to freely worship as they see fit, privately and publicly.

The objection at is core is a belief that the right of others are more important than their own. That belief has it genesis in decades old SCOTUS decisions..

What CHristians need to understand about their own faiths is that a religion dependent upon the state for sanction and blessing and authority and to prosletyxes on its behalf is a very dead religion.