Almost
August 27th, 2006
This statement by a candidate for Senate in Florida almost makes me want to support only allowing agnostics to gain office:
If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don’t know better, we are leading them astray and it’s wrong. …
Why agnostics? Because they’re the only ones who can be depended upon to never try to cram their belief system down your throat.
Of course, then again, one has to remember that the candidate who spoke the above words is Katherine Harris, who seems congenitally unfit for office.
And one has to wonder what kind of Christian she might be.
How about these commandments from Christ:
Seperate Religion from Politics;
Not to put God to the test;
And there is this dicta from Christ:
My kingdom is not of this world. Gee, wonder why he said that?
Could it be he didn’t want to polute religion with politics?
But then what does Christ know?
Howabout love others, and ‘feed my sheep’.
When it comes to religion, we see things as we are, not as they are.
It would seem that agnosticism IS in itself a religion…it is a worldview, a foundational belief system that would drive decisions and assumptions. The founders actually used the foundational belief that God exists, endowing human beings with innate rights to justify their Declaration of Independence.
It would seem that agnosticism IS in itself a religion…it is a worldview, a foundational belief system that would drive decisions and assumptions…I would disagree; it is, in fact, a lack of a worldview, a lack of a belief system, while at the same time being an amalgam of all worldviews and belief systems. It essentially says that any worldview and any belief system is potentially valid, therefore none can be readily dismissed. It is, in a sense, all-inclusive, as opposed to religions–including atheism–which are exclusive, as they deny all other belief systems other than their own.
The founders actually used the foundational belief that God exists, endowing human beings with innate rights to justify their Declaration of Independence. Yes, but they weren’t agnostics, were they?
Thank you. I think you’re right. But people who ascribe to the “all beliefs are equally valid” are easily contradicted. Especially when you introduce Christianity, which says that Jesus is the only way to salvation. Since Christianity claims to be exclusive concerning truth, then the person who believes all beliefs are equally valid must disagree that Christianity is valid…because if they agree that Christianity is valid, then they exclude other ‘options’. Ok, now I need an excedrin.
I make the mistake of confusing agnostics with athiests. Of course, the difference is that athiests claim there is no God, which I think would qualify as a worldview or religion. While agnostics seem to think the jury is still out.
Thanks again, I love the conversation…in small doses
Paul