Show me the post. I want black&white, not inference. [I get the indelible impression that] My very existence is an inference, had you your way. "You exist, therefore you derogate" is faulty logic, I say.
for the record: I have NO problem with Christians displaying the Ten Commandments. They have church billboards after all, and the right to configure them to suit. But the right to post the Ten Commandments on a classroom wall is something I oppose - not! out of hate of believers, but! out of the prudent wish to be free from state-run religious indoctrination. In that instance, the only fair thing is to keep them ALL off the classroom wall, from St. Peter to the Maharishi.
Be careful what you classify as "simple requests". Since you are evidently a member of an evangelical church, you are under mandate to convert, to be a "fisher of men". In that value system, spreading the word, anywhere, anyway, is an unqualified good thing. But I stand here to remind that outside such a value system, and I have a RIGHT to stand outside it, spreading the word is an activity that requires boundaries. I believe it to be the foundation of prudence to draw the unbroken line between church, any church, and state. I further believe that the intent is to PROTECT believers, since the shape of the churches keeps changing, and having, say, Huguenot ot Puritan ethics embodied in our body of law would be an impediment to modern evangelicals.
How this can be construed as antireligious sentiment ... mystifies me. |
