Yesterday I wrote about Jefferson and the separation of church and state. Today I want to address the question of theocracy more directly. As I mentioned yesterday, there are many on the left who seem to believe that the religious right really wants to institute a theocracy in America. Nothing could be further from the truth! I’m sure there is an insignificant minority who really would like theocracy but being insignificant, they really don’t need to be dealt with in any significant way.
For the overwhelming majority of evangelicals and anyone on the religious right, what we want is what the First Amendment guarantees. We want to exercise our religious beliefs without government interference. But because freedom of religion has been reinterpreted to mean freedom from religion, that has become increasingly difficult to do.
I was a double major in college. My majors were political science and religion. Typically people looked at me like a grew two heads when I told them this...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Who Wants Theocracy?
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Great post, Ron. As you pointed out, we created that tension where none originally existed.
Only want what the First Amendment guarantees? Me too! ...Oh wait, you just want free reign your of religion without government interference. I want religion free of government interference and government free of religios interference. We seem to be very lacking on the latter part. In god who trusts? God bless who? So help who god? You may be right, few might want a theocracy. I mean which denomination would it be? It would surely exclude another denomination. Oh you are ok with other views but the majority religion deserves extra rights? Wait, thats why we have a constitution and a bill of rights, to prevent the tyranny of the majority.
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