A Pew Research Center survey has shown that, despite the faith-based politics of both Democratic and Republican leaders, most citizens like separation of church and state — including separation from politics. Two-thirds said that religious organizations should not endorse or openly support candidates. For a prior column on the issue, click here.
Since 1954, the IRS has imposed limits on the political activities of tax-exempt organizations, including churches and other religious institutions. Both parties have been actively organizing churches and church leaders.
Recently churches joined together to challenge this rule and openly support candidates from the pulpit.
What is astonishing is that our leaders continue to work hard to incorporate religious leaders and institutions into our political system while much of the world struggles with the instability and violence caused by such entanglement. We have largely avoided the unrest seen in other countries with our commitment to separation, but it continues to be under attack by members of both parties.
Source: PEW
Most Americans oppose theocracy in politics, but unfortunately, nobody told the Republican party.
Whoever is not like Christ does not represent Christ whatever external name.
Jesus does not give guilt. That is what jails do. Jesus wants to save the soul. Jails attempt to save bodies like war attempts to save the body losing the soul. Both are the creation if you want to call it that of the enemy of God the accuser Satan. Had we had anything recorded of Jesus arresting I would not be saying what I am saying. Jail is as far removed from the character of Christ as the east is from the west.
Jails are from the mind of the Devil that is in bondage because-he rebelled. Jesus does not give bondage. How then can Jesus who is God have anything to do with Jails? The anointed of the Lord frees people. When Jesus laid his life down for us could not n be held in the devils Jail. Lost are in it waiting for final Judgment to become less than nothing ion Gods light. Hell is not Life life. Hell is not eternal suffering like heaven is long. God is the judge.. It is his light that will be like a consuming fire is what will judge. Peoiple do not have that. Jesus did not condemn. What do you think will happen to p[people that Condemn? Islamic law condemns like no USA law could ever condemn. You must like Islamic law.
Politicians don’t want to discuss class issues and civil rights so they want to change the subject.
Religion that persecutes getting the KJV wrong does not worship Jesus. Jesus is not in the Constitution. Satan is therefore in it. Satan does not want peoiple to worship Jesus. The bible has to be relearned. It will be a lot of work Religion made people doubt that Jesus is God we have heaven up there,and hell down there. God is heaven to the redeemed, and is hell to the people that arrest and war Like Jresus does not arrest,and war. This country built on what is called the Constitution is built on arrest, and war. It is built on save the body lose the soul.
There’s no point in talking to Artie. It is clear now he doesn’t actually read what anyone writes. He’s like a bible passage pez dispenser. Talk to him [pull his handle] and another bible passage comes out.
Larry, don’t respect the KJV., don’t respect your soul. End up not respecting anyone doing to them what Jesus would never do.
artie said:
“Freedom is not where there are jails.”
Wow, that’s pretty damned profound. So, you’re saying that jails do not provide freedom? Odd, I thought the entire purpose of jail was to deprive one of freedom since its inhabitants have violated the rights of the innocent? Silly me….all my life I had thought that jail was supposed to provide freedom!
Jails are from the mind of the Devil that is in bondage breccias he rebelled. Jesus does not give bondage. How then can Jesus who is God have anything to do with Jails? The anointed of the Lord frees people. When Jesus laid his life down for us could not n be held in the devils Jail. Lost are in it waiting for final Judgment to become less than nothing ion Gods light. Hell is not Life life. Hell is not eternal suffering like heaven is long. God is the judge.. It is his light that will be like a consuming fire is what will judge. Peoiple do not have that. Jesus did not condemn. What do you think will happen to p[people that Condemn? Islamic law condemns like no USA law could ever condemn. You must like Islamic law.
Jesus does not give guilt. That is what jails do. Jesus wants to save the soul. Jails attempt to save bodies like war attempts to save the body losing the soul. Both are the creation if you want to call it that of the enemy of God the accuser Satan. Had we had anything recorded of Jesus arresting I would not be saying what I am saying. Jail is far removed from the character of Christ as the east is from the west.
artie, you keep talking about Jesus like it’s a given that he exists and is God. There is no proof of this. This is why it’s called a BELIEF and requires FAITH. YOU are the EXACT kind of person the founders had in mind when they had the wisdom to make it United States law that NO particular religion would be the national religion and that religious worship would be protected.
Your premise begins with Jesus existing and then you attempt to incorporate that into U.S. law. Thinking people [including our founders] do not do this. The first amendment protects your right to worship Jesus, but it does NOT protect your right to get elected to Congress or the Senate and introduce bills [to become law] that would be based on a religious belief or practice. Do you NOT understand this??
Truly ,Truly I tell ypou the truth.God is as real as you, and the air that you breathe. Jesus is the Father without his blinding glory that is hell to evil. Our bodies are evil. Jesus came to save the soul that is in it. I will never no not eve lie to you. Religions will lie. I am not a religion. Religion planed the death of Jesus. Jesus is not against Jesus. I am the opposite ti the founders. The law of man condenses.The law of God frees.,How then can Jesus be in the constitution? If Jesus is not in it, Guess who is? Protect what you say is religious freedom allow more, and more abominable religions in like.islamic law . Those idiots have a Qur’an that says Allah is the best deceiver. The deceiver is the devil. That means the Muslims are follower the devil, and that also means the devil is in yopur beloved Constitution too. There is no mercy in it even as there is no mercy in our law or Islamic law. Coddle that constitution and you will let a flood come in that will drown all that are not Muslims. They are godless giving an eye for an eye.You are the temple. Prayer is not what religions teach. They teach what the enemy of God did not teach. I can teacvh a class on it. Pray constantly, and when you want to pray the traditional way go to your room or a place where no one knows you are praying.
a comment I made.Religion has truth in their hands,but the holy spirit in a person studying on their own will find it. The religion guided by the devil will not teach anyone.
No life = no Yiffing or zoosexual likings. Those that are against whatever sex want all life dead. Think about that. 10 things that are abominable. 15 verses about perverse. 4 about defile, zero about any sex. Pro: 17:23, Pro:, 15 4, Job 6 – 30, Pro:, 12 -8, Isa:”, 30 -12, 1 Tim:’, 6 -5, Deut: 16 -19, Job 8 -3, Jer: 23 -3. 36, Gal: 1 -7, Ecc:, 5 -8, Micah, 3 -9, Pro: 19 1, Pro: 4 24, Pro: 3, 32, Pro: 12; 22, Pro: 20 :10, Pro: 6;16, Heb: 12:15: Isa: 59 -3, Mat: 15 - 11, Mark, 7 – 15, KJV.
Religions have the KJV but do not teach us the truth therein. Here again is evidence of the devil in people hiding truth, perverting words, taking verses out of context while having KJV in their blood soaked hands. 8 places in KJV says the heart figuratively is to be circumcised not the penis tip at all. Deuteronomy 30:6, Deuteronomy 10:16 ;Jeremiah 4:4 , Jeremiah 9:26; Colossians 2:11-15;Acts 7:51;Leviticus 26:41;Romans 2:29, circumcision is a blood sacrifice. nothing more nothing less.
Ecc 3 :8 – 20- says we are a beast 4 times in two verses. KJV.
KJV,Genesis 19:. 9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.:Sodomite speaking is the one who came in to sojourn speaking in the third person wanting to judge condemn the two people in lots house. Lot does not let them. The Sodomite gets hungry, and threatens lot. The angel pulls lot back into the house. You want the same worse for the zoosexual being like the sodomite.
Hell is Gods light seen to the human that kills or hates not being like Jesus is like it was fire. KJV 1 John 1;5, God is light. Heb; 12:29; God is a consuming fire. James 1:17, Father of lights, Hell is the glorified face of God Moses could not look at or become ashes. That light makes the earth to have no more sea making the elements melt, and consumes the wicked around the city of God rev, 20. Hell is not a place. No lost no lake of fire. Gods light is good to those that love to do good.
Religion that persecutes getting the KJV wrong doers not worship Jesus. Jesus is not in the Constitution. Satan is therefore in it. Satan does not want peoiple to worship Jesus. The bible has to be relearned. It will be a lot of work Religion made people doubt that Jesus is God we have heaven up there,and hell down there. God is heaven to the redeemed, and is hell to the people that arrest and war Like Jresus does not arrest,and war. This country built on what is called the Constitution is built on arrest, and war. It is built on save the body lose the soul.
Why not, those murderous cucumbers often repeat… 😮
I am not a cold anything. I made as error in what I was writing. Since there is no way to edit I had to do what i did.
And then straightway disobey them calling it good in war b, and deatrh penalty. Jesus wants us to save the soul. It would have been idiotic to come to only save the body. . Jesus is not an idiot. There is no0 freedom in the Constitution.only an open door for worse, and wore religoins to come in ,and take root. each more abominable than the first. Freedom is not where there are jails. Islamic law is not a savor, Islamic law is the epitome of bloody blasphemy. It calls abominable acts good. Those that reject Islamic law, and the merciless existing law will not grieve Gods spirit away from them
The fact is that only two of the ten commandments is writ into U.S. Law: Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal. All the rest is simple religious noise. The attempt to limit other’s freedom and rights to seek happiness is religious drumming with big drums to drown out freedom as our forefathers ordained it in our Constitution and Bill Of Rights. Religiosities not happy with that dictate can move to Iran, a religious state, for all I care. Their atrocities are not welcome here in this secular statehood.
And then straightway disobey them calling it good in war b, and deatrh penalty. Jesus wants us to save the soul. It would have been idiotic to come to only save the body. . Jesus is not an idiot. There is no0 freedom in the Constitution.only an open door for worse, and wore religoins to come in ,and take root. each more abominable than the first. Freedom is not where there are jails. Islamic law is not a savor, Islamic law is the epitome of bloody blasphemy. It calls abominable acts good. Those that reject Islamic law, and the merciless existing law. will not grieve Gods spirit away from them
Repetition is a key to being a salesperson, coincidence..I think not.
Malisha,
That’s about enough outta you, troublemaker!
Don’t make me repeat myself. 😉
Artie,
What Gene said. Check out the Constitution next time.
Malisha,
That’s about enough outta you, troublemaker!
Don’t make me repeat myself. 😉
prayer \ˈprer\, n.,
1a (1) : an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought (said a prayer for the success of the voyage) (2) : a set order of words used in praying b : an earnest request or wish
2: the act or practice of praying to God or a god (kneeling in prayer)
3: a religious service consisting chiefly of prayers —often used in plural
4: something prayed for
5: a slight chance (haven’t got a prayer)
Nothing about Jesus or aspiring to be like him at all in the definition of the word “prayer”.
Also, people somewhere have been constantly praying since the invention of the practice but it hasn’t stopped oppression (in fact, it has resulted in quite a bit of oppression itself), hasn’t stopped wars (it has started quite a few though with religion being historically the second most common cause of war next to economics and followed by politics), and “jailing them calling it good” is simply a good example of religion on religion oppressive practices as one person’s god is another person’s false idol.
Sounds a lot like you simple don’t know what you are talking about, Artie.
But seriously, I would like to know how your views on bestiality are working out for you in the larger world. Have you won any coverts over to your way of thinking on that topic? Would you care to explain them again to this forum for anyone who perhaps missed your take on the issue?
“One of the secrets of comedy is repetition.”
Yes, but that’s just one of the secrets.
Another one is repetition. 😀
Prayer is a state of mind to be like Jesus is. How can that be kept out of anywhere except whoever not being not like Jesus is? Without constant prayer people would oppress people, sacrificing in war killing people, and jailing them calling it good. Sounds like peoiple are not in constant prayer already acting like the sodomites outside Lots door.
Gene H. ….the irony of artiewhitefox is astounding and I’m happy to see you putting him in his place. It is because of people JUST LIKE artie that the founders made no law establishing a particular religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof!! Artie is making his arguments presupposing that Jesus exists. That’s the whole problem! He is making his argument with the BELIEF…..not the FACT…that Jesus not only exists, but is the one true god.
This is the very reason the founders did NOT want an establishment of religion. Who’s to say whose god exists and whose does not? The founders were very wise to not make one religion the “supreme” or “national” religion while also not restricting people to worship whatever god they wanted to.
It is quite odd that artie opposes what Gene is trying to say about the United States LAW, when the very reason that the founders made that a law from the beginning was for people JUST LIKE artie who want an establishment of religion incorporated into U.S. law.
One of the secrets of comedy is repetition.