
Originally Posted by
Tock
Not really . . . it's only when folks with "traditional christian values" try to cram them down everyone else's throats that they get some much-deserved flack.
By the way, what exactly are "traditional christian values?" Are you talking about the christian values as exemplified by the Puritans in the 1600's, where they threw you in jail if you didn't go to church on sunday, where they forced you to pay property tax to support the official state church until 1835 (when the US Supreme Court nixed it)? Or might you be talking about the traditional christian values that passed laws requiring Jewish, Moslem, and atheist kids to pray to Jesus in public schools (if they didn't, they'd get expelled) until the US Supreme Court nixed that in 1961? Or might you be possibly talking about the traditional christian values that burnt "witches" to death, and sent hundreds of thousands of heretics to fiery deaths because they dared speak their honest opinion on the subject of religion?
IMHO, if you want to be a traditional christian, that's your perrogative. But you can keep your religious beleifs out of my life, thank you very much . . .
-Tock