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–Robert Louis Stevenson
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What must the grownups of the civilized world think of us provincial buffoons now? American exceptionalism, just the worst possible kind. What's next? Back to burning witches?
And these are the people that fear sharia law.
But of course.
Well, yeah. It conflicts with Paulist law.
Geezuz. Hey, you pathetic bigots – perhaps you'd be interested in the real reason Sodom and Gomorrah was smited?
Like the Taliban, these folks hate religious freedom. Unlike the Taliban they live under a constitution that demands it and achieves it by barring government from interfering in religious matters by endorsing any of them. While some of our oaths have come to include "so help me God" that phrase must always be optional. There can be no religious test for office which means no one can be compelled to profess a belief in God, though Miller cites the "so help me God" part of the oath in Tennessee as proof that officials are sworn not just to uphold the constitution but also "natural" law, their formula for what they believe to be God's law. The fact is that if you are elected to any office in Tennessee or anywhere else in the United States you can leave that out and nobody can prevent you from taking office for doing so or for declining to swear on a bible.
The concept that neither the United States of America nor the states of which its composed can be officially Christian or officially require a belief in God no matter how large the Christian majority may be is very hard for these people to accept. So hard that they create fictions about what the constitution really says, some going so far as to claim it came from God rather than from mortals imbued with the humanist, rationalist ideals of the Enlightenment.
They only oppose Sharia law because it's the wrong flavor. It's biblical law they think they want to impose though they'd soon find it pays to be careful what you wish for. The death penalty for adultery alone would decimate the bible belt in short order, just for starters.
If you want to look to where the highest rates of porn consumption occur, you have to look no further than The
PornBible Belt.Also divorce rates:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/01/breaking-news-again-bible-belt-divorce-rates-high/
I don't know if anyone measures hypcrisy rates but it's a good bet those would go with the porno and divorce rates.
Great quote!
Bumped to its own Front Page story. Thanks BC!
Isn't it amazing how history can be written to make the lost and stupid (and in this case, disease-ridden) appear 'heroic'?
Michael, even the story of Lot offering his daughters is designed to underscore the ferocious command for hospitality. Otherwise, the would-be rapists were going to molest his guests, a violation of God's law that had to be avoided at any cost.
I have a hunch if we wanted to uncover violations of God's law (the literal kind, just to keep in step with their resolution) in today's Blount County we'd find no shortage of such acts.
That's the thing about the Bible. It's so ancient and weird, nobody who says they obey the Bible to the letter really does. Even within the Old Testament, before you even get to the New, older parts are contradicted by newer parts. Alternative narratives and mutually contradictory laws abound because it's so obviously a mish mash of bits and pieces written by different people at different times. And outside of full time biblical scholars, most of us, including most on the extreme Christian right, have only a very cursory knowledge of what's in it and that only through the lens of several rounds of translation. Pretty silly to even pretend they'd really want all this stuff to be the law of the land.