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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All religious organziations get tax preferences, accepting gay marriage is not christian, you must be some lib cult bullshit[/quote]

Came across this quote today, which seemed pretty apropos:

[quote]As is so often the case I feel the need to make a rather obvious point here, but the only possible reasons for religious people to really want the government to get more involved in religion are either a) you really really really want theocracy, which doesn't really have anything to do with religious freedom (let's call this the evil reason) or b) you really don't understand that "religion" does not actually precisely equal "your religion" (let's call this the stupid reason). I'm sure there are people in column a) and column b), but I find the latter to be fairly fascinating. Is their exposure to the world really so limited? Has it not occurred to them, driving around, that all of the names given to the various Christian denominations might suggest that there are genuine differences in belief and practice? There are obvious important questions religious people should be asking about some of our dumber perennial controversies, such as when we're discussing organized prayer in schools, the question for religious people should probably be,"which prayers?"[/quote]

Really the bottom line is, there are some very un-Christian Americans like PP who feel that since it's a Democracy, and they've got what they feel is a majority in favor of their particular point of dogma, therefore the State should be used to compel all Americans to follow the tenets of their particular faith. Yes, that's fucked up, and goes against everything this country was founded on, but there you go.[/quote]

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