The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67632   Message #1132435
Posted By: Strick
09-Mar-04 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Secularity vs Religion
Subject: RE: BS: Secularity vs Religion
"No I wouldn't respond, because it is such an outrageously silly suggestion. I also tend to stay out of most the threads that have anything to do with religion, because of the tyranny of the religious majority in them."

Just as I consider this thread a silly suggestion. It's nothing but a thread about religion, however.

"I would never ask that a person leave their faith at home. I simply ask that you not attempt to impose your faith's values on me and the society we all live in. Just like our constitution says. I don't prohibit your practice of your faith/religion, and you don't impose your religion/faith on me by government mandates, programs, and preferences."

The problem is that in this you're trying to impose your values on society just like I am. You want to turn that debate into a one sided affair and re-interpret the Constitution to your liking (sorry, that's not what it says). Like Jerry, I've never tried to impose my religious views on anyone, just tried to see that my values are reasonably represented in the public debate. Those values can't exist without my faith. I don't generally put them forward as religious issues, but you seem intent on trying to determine which of my values are offensive to you because of what you assume to be their source.