Theocracy is Incompatible With Religious Liberty

I WAS going to pass this on to a national radio talk show host who frequently uses what I send in the show, forward it to the many "groups" I am a member of and send it to anyone else who I may find it a positive message from a religious person UNTIL I READ THIS:

"History and contemporary realities show us that a theocracy's unrestrained friendliness to one religion violates religious liberty as much as a secular state's untempered hostility to all religion."

The reason why IT SEEMS secular states do not support religion is because of people like you Mr. Walker.

Secular people support religious people as long as they do not enter politics to change laws giving their chosen religion "special rights", those they always say other groups demand ;( woman, blacks, gays, disabled, etc).

I wonder what a secular world would have done to the Catholic priests who raped children for years, while their church protected them, or when, the same church supported Hitler.

I wonder what a secular world would have done when the Inquisitions were taking place or the "Salem Witch Trials" or any number of the killing of trillions of people motivated by a religion, usually Christians, who believed secularism, is akin to the devil.

Please get an education, and take your head out of the clouds.

You, Mr. Walker, are the reason why Secularists are disgusted by religious people who merely pretend to be against theocracies who are more than happy to put down religions OTHER THAN Christianity, especially when it comes to Theocracies.

I ask you to look into how many of your Christian brothers and sisters in the US Congress try, on a daily basis, to change laws, IN THE USA, that give Christians and Christianity special rights while also trying to change US history, by stating the USA is a Christian Nation.

Isn’t that what a Theocracy is?

It is very convenient that Christians of the USA have Islam to demonize now, where gays are getting more rights, Asians are no longer locked up in camps, blacks are no longer hung, woman can vote, what else are Christians to do but use their mythological bible to state how horrid other religions are in other countries, while ignoring their own behaviors in the USA.

Corey Mondello
Boston, Massachusetts
6-24-09

Iran’s supreme leader and his attending political puppets are reaping what they have sowed.
Namely their archaic treatment of women.

These medieval minded leaders are now, probably for the first time in their lives, feeling the genuine wrath of women upon them.

Iranian women believe their protest to be divine retribution for the generational discrimination imposed upon them, I agree with them.

Brent, God states He will use the weak and despised among us to bring down and shame the strong and proud ones.

Brent Walker, as usual, is right on target. It's too bad that not all Americans share his and the Baptist Joint Committee's understanding of and deep appreciation for our country's basic constitutional principle of separation of church and state, at least as important now as when it was formulated by the likes of Roger Williams, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. -- Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Err, a secular state isn't one of 'untempered hostility to all religion,' that's nonsense.

A secular state is *neutral* toward religion.

Though some religions claim otherwise.