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Originally posted by ktsnake
Pike, there are many Christians (such as myself) that consider the Bible an excellent guide book for life. However, like any guide book, what has the final say is not something that a man wrote down 2000 years ago. It's my own moral compass (which has served me very well throughout my life).
Because of our alleged freedom of and from religion, I'm uncomfortable with the government legislating based solely on Biblical passages. That really makes us no better as a free society than some of those that we're trying to set free from religious tyrants in the middle east.
I received a letter from my Republican state rep yesterday that detailed what he had done this year in the house. His letter lead with the fact that he voted in favor of the "Defense of Marriage Act". That's nice... my state is 47th in teacher pay, (mostly due to the fact that we have over 600 school districts complete with superintendants and staff) is running a budget entirely based on passing bonds, has one of the most expensive worker's comp systems in the country, a confiscatory tax plan, and is obsessed with giving out freebies to the buddies of powerful politicians. Yeah, but they passed the freaking defense of marriage act which will probably be turned over by the Supreme Court (or just worked around by people going out of state) in no time at all. And he opposes a lotter! INDIAN TRIBES ALREADY OPERATE LOTTERIES IN THIS STATE! Bravo!
In my opinion, this grandstanding of politicians for the religious right -- passing meaningless legislation is doing serious damage to this country an our politicians credibility, with me and with much of the American public.
ETA: Sorry for the hijack, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
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ktsnake, I agree with everything you just said, and I think it's relative. The Bible contradicts itself in several places, come on! I think the Bible is an important part of a religious upbringing if you are Christian, but it's not the way and the truth and only that. Maybe that's the difference between being Catholic and Fundamentalist.