11-03-2004, 11:10 PM
Occhidiangela,Nov 4 2004, 12:09 AM Wrote:Don't like American politics? No problem, stay in Denmark, it's a neat place with great people (to include yourself! :) )
Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. :P
Quote:Don't understand religion, do you, and its relationship to the social world that is politics? Not surprising. Europe, of course, never had any sort of governmental-religion relationship . . . *bursts out laughing so hard he spills his coffee*
Don't understand ... or just plain disagree with. Take your pick.
Admittedly I'm not familiar with all the historical background material you cite, and I'm sure I could bury myself under a huge pile of history books concerning the topics of religion and politics if I wanted. I'm not going to do that though. Instead I'll just stand by my opinion, which is that I do not support the idea of theocracy. People can vote based on their religion all they want for all I care, but when you begin to legislate based on religion you have a problem. And that's what I believe is happening in certain cases, such as with gay marriage.
As a sidenote, I'm not claiming that Europe is perfect (or has been historically) when it comes to religious governing, but I'm really not interested in turning this into a discussion about who's got the biggest pile of **** in their backyard.
ManaCraft