I just saw a long ranting post about The United States having a Christian foundation and we “need to get back to god”. It was made clear at the beginning that this was not a topic for debate. I’m respecting that. But I have something to say in response, so I’ll post it here.
Not for nothing, but there IS separation of church and state. Thomas Jefferson in fact, in commentary on the First Amendment, said “legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State”. If the church, and I mean ANY church of ANY religion, wants a say as to who is God or not, they can sacrifice their tax-exempt status.
As to the other quote, it states it “endowed by their creator”. That the decision on who exactly that creator is, depends on the perspective of the individual in question. The Bible clearly states “work out YOUR OWN sin, with fear and trembling” not to mention “for anyone who knows to do right and does it not, to HIM it is sin”. By that rationale, if we take, for instance, a Muslim, who worships Allah and that is what he knows to be right, then to not call Allah “Ywh”, is not a sin. Not to mention that Allah and God are one and the same, considering that Islam is a split from Judaism. For at Mt. Sinai when Moses brought the Ten Commandments, Islam continued on with the law of Abraham, and Judaism followed the law of Moses.
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