You can legislate religion out of the government but you can't legislate religion out of legislators. If someone's religious beliefs are central to their character, its going to come out in their proposals and responses to other's proposals.

But the positive influence Christianity has had on the nation is undeniable. Its also undeniable the trend that people, as a whole, are moving away from historical religious practices. That too will make its way into legislators. If that hurts the nation is up for debate. I say it already has and will continue to.

WebsterMark wrote on 10/21/19 at 05:05:31:


Christians love to believe this.   Slavery.  Regarding of women as chattel.  Abuse of animals and the natural world.  Denial of our central role in the climate catastrophe.   Persecution of neighbors for their sex.  A brief sampling of a very few of the horrors delivered to us via Christiandom.   The only thing “undeniable” here is prejudice.  

In one thread, a view of the world  as ‘better than ever’ was promoted- during a time with an ever-lowering portion adhering to Christianity.    Correlation ain’t causation - and anything can be rationalized.   A sampling of occupants of our prison systems shows a proportionately lower representation of atheists than Christians- demonstrative only that the claimed clarity does not exist.

"You can legislate religion out of the government but you can't legislate religion out of legislators. If someone's religious beliefs are central to their character, its going to come out in their proposals and responses to other's proposals."

 Do you know of legislation that has taken religion out of government?  I've always been under the impression that our Constitution in Article 6 has prohibited any religious requirement to begin with.

"Again with the Captain Obvious....! Seriously dude, we've got to get a drink sometime....."

 I don't consume alcohol.

 I was asking since it must not be that obvious to everyone.  In this thread there is claims that the Supreme Court has overturned rulings regarding religious practice in public schools regarding Christmas cards and similar.  Nobody I know can find information about this and we have full records to every Supreme Court case available in a database.

 Maybe, since so many people bring up the "laws changing" to eliminate Christianity etc. that there is somewhere a law or legislation.  It's just that nobody I have met thus far can reference one.