LTE: Secularism protects Christians' religious freedom too

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

To the editor: It's astounding that certain Christians’ tunnel vision blinds them to the world's reality. One letter writer blamed disparate problems on our "secular-driven government" forcing its values on us.

A founding principle of our government was that it should not favor any religion, which would enable each citizen to cling to and practice his or her particular beliefs. If government treated each belief, religious and nonreligious alike, with equal respect, that would help create a society where each belief would be unimpeded by the "bullying, shaming, intimidation, hostility and vitriol" that the letter writer cites.

Unfortunately, this founding principle has been abandoned by our shamelessly Christian Supreme Court, the consequence of which has been constant bullying, shaming and intimidation of all beliefs that are not Christian.

Secularism is not the villain, it's the cure.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/letters-editor-secularism-protects-christians-100016384.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Well yeah, but the christofascist don't want religious freedom...

they want religious hegemony, and a one party christofascist theocracy.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. How soon they forget.

During the founding of this country, Baptists were arrested and imprisoned -- for being Baptists.

[keithbvadu2]

3. What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?

What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

[shrike3]

4. I agree, 100 percent.

As a Christian, I've believed this for years.

[lees1975]

5. Where, exactly, are secular-driven values being "forced" on Christians?

I'd like to know. And also, where's the "tyranny," by its actual definition, not what is made up in someone's mind.