Why do so many courts (other than US Supreme Court)  seemed to be biased against Christianity?
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Fact, legality, and reality has a well-known liberal bias.  You're right, judges should ignore facts and laws and just rule based on their religious values brought from a good Christian church.\n\nBy the way, where is the link to this story, I can't find it in any right or left-wing news source.
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Thank you. Hear that fundies? We're not picking on you, we just want things to be equal. And before someone says it, our founding fathers were not Christian. They were deists. \n\nhttp://www.theology.edu/journal/volume2/ushistor.htm\nhttp://dim.com/~randl/founders.htm\n\n"It was during [John] Adam's administration that the Senate ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which states in Article XI that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.'"
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christians are "cherry pickers"\n\nThey ignore most of the bible tenets that would apply to them.\n\nThen, like the obscure, ridiculous "gay" bible laws -- those are apparently the MOST IMPORTANT to follow.  so important, that they have serious desire for legislated laws about gay marriage and gay behavior...etc.\n\nFunny.  They don't want to make bible-laws into legislation, though, if they would affect THEM.  No laws about adultery, pre marital sex, extra-marital sex, divorce (hell...divorce is so popular with christians that it's institutionalized).  "But, those darn gays, we have to legislate against them!!  Just nothing to make US illegal"\n\nChristians are MAJOR hypocrites and frauds.
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because there is always those attacking Christianity. no other religion, or way of life, pro-abortion, pro-gay etc., is attacked by the media, most groups, ACLU, people for the american way etc. and such. they deem anything straight from the bible is thinking closed minded, hate-full, or intolerant. although all these groups claim to be for tolerance, open minded and free speech. it is much quite the opposite.
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Well first of all, this country was not built on separation of politics & religion. It was built on : no state sponsered religion and equality of all religions. If you look at our founding fathers, they incorporated thier religious beliefs into many aspects of government and politics.\nSo in my opinion , on the religious and political front, our country is out of step with what the framers of the Constitution intended it to be.
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That's exactly it, though. We're NOT the minority, but we somehow shouldn't have any influence in this country according to many. And it's not equal treatment...equal treatment would be to include all religions into schools, etc, not to eliminate Christianity.\n\nAnd although it's tempting for many to do this (and I recognize you haven't), I can't stand it when people try and use the Constitution as a source for this - the only thing the constitution says is that the government shall make no laws with respect to establishment of religion...at least that's the gist although i don't have the exact wording in front of me. Last I checked, crosses and prayers do not force anyone to believe a certain way. Do people realize the founding fathers prayed before their meetings?
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If my history lessons and further study of history are correct the US is a secular nation and its founders believed that no religion should be put above any other religion. Quite the foresight if I might say as they put this provision into the Constitution to protect the country from the various sects of christianity not the various religions in the world. The controversy you state is only a controversy in your head as I could care less about your religion. However, if any religion tries to usurp the US Constitution it is within the rights of any one to question and eventually put a halt to their actions. Christians have no more rights nor less rights than anyone else. So, if you see a problem with someone who doesn't share your religious views you have not read the first amendment properly. Get over it.
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You infer correctly, and bravo for pointing this out.  People insist on it because that is what they want to believe, whether it is true or not.  They will insist that this is a "Christian" country, simply because Christianity is the main religion of the people.  In reality that doesn't mean squat to our Constitutional principles or freedoms.  If the founders wished to create a Christian nation they had the perfect opportunity to do so.  They chose instead to create a democratic republic in which religion has no say.  This fact gets conveniently ignored by fanatical Christians who think they automatically have the right to run everyone's lives.  They'll quote scripture as though it is civil law, but have little clue what the meaning of separation of church and state is at all.  Better education in our schools could help dissolve their ridiculous notion.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nAce?  For every quotation from a founder supporting the role of religion in government, I can produce two from the same founder speaking against it.  This debate went on for quite some time and the founders wrote and spoke about both sides of it extensively.  The proof in the pudding is that they had a chance to install a theocracy and chose not to do so.  They chose to keep that distance between church and state in the end.  How can you even argue with that when they didn't take the opportunity to create a theocracy?
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Christians are given lots of contradictory advice in their scripture.  They can pick and choose what to follow and what to disregard depending upon the prevailing politics.  All religion is essentially political in nature- not spiritual.
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Religion and opinion are things Christians do not get.
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Because they ignore the facts on what actually did happen at that time . . . \n\nPlus, not all christians today believe what the Council decreed . . . some denominations are trying to weed out the dogma and other teachings to try to get at the truth.  Unfortunately, there is no truth in religion  . . . because there is no God.
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I think that's the essence of the deception of the Bush administration and in many ways the entire republican party. That is, talking about Christian values while not really having any. Would Jesus wage war? What about "turn the other cheek"? Would jesus give tax cuts to the wealthy while ignoring the poor? Bush claims he's pro-life, but starting a war that causes thousands of innocent lives to perish is certainly not pro-life in my opinion. Probably one of the most devout christian presidents we have ever had is Jimmy Carter (a democrat). He has recently been very critical of Bush's presidency. I think his criticism is interesting because Carter himself, is a deeply religious man. I'm not a christian myself, but i have a tremendous amount of respect for christians who actually uphold christian values, but at the same time recognize the values of our constitution. I think Carter does an amazing job of balancing these and he's the role model of a true christian patriot. Bush is the exact opposite. He gives the Chrstian faith a bad name and he disrespects both the values of the Constitution and the Bible at the same time. It amazes me that most Christians think he's on their side. It simply amazes me.
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Generally not...There are religions which would preclude the use of the bible some of which are christian. "Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no for anything beyond this is from the wicked one". Don't remember the exact location but it's from one of Paul's letters. Not all courtrooms are as enlightened though.....
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The US is supposed to be about freedom of religion.  Sure, you may get people yelling in your face, but at least you don't get thrown in jail anymore for being different.
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Seeing as how church and state are separated, your religious views have nothing to do with the rights of the citizens in the U.S.\n\nYes, gay people should have every right afforded a straight couple.    I have seen many gay couples who love eachother more than some straight couples.  Why shouldn't they have the right to express that love?\n\nIf you have distaste for it...  you don't have to be friends with them, or attend their nuptuals.\n\n\nTo the members of the Christian Right:\n\nWhatever happened to live and let live?\n\nWhatever happened to 'all sins being the same in the eyes of God'?\n\nWhatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?\n\n\nIt sickens me that you use your religion to judge other people when it clearly state in the Bible that God is the judge, not you.\n\nIsn't your sin of judgement just as bad as their sin?  Doesn't it say that all sins are the same in the eyes of God?  If it doesn't, feel free to let me know.....   and please don't forget the pamphlet asking me if I know where I'm going when I die..
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Yes. In university I had a comparative religions class, and I borrowed a friend's copy a few years back, as well. \n\nI would say the major point of opposition for someone from a Christian background would be the lack of support for the deity of Christ. I think the verse was something like "God was not begotten, nor did he beget."\n\nHowever, even among Christians this issue draws controversy. I believe all the religions of the book teach there will be a judgment day, and God will sort it all out then. \n\nI can wait.
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the constitution has provision to keep the government out of the church... but this regulates only the government's role in religion, this does not address the attitude that is tolerance and mass attitudes toward a particular religion-- of course hate crimes are illegal but beyond that the government is to stay out of faith, this may be more apparant in the writings of the founders than the constitution