Bullypulpit
Senior Member
freeandfun1 said:then why has this only become an issue as of late? The NATION was much more Christian 50, 100, 150 years ago and nobody complained. It is only now that the left is getting radical about abolishing all signs of Christianity in this country. Could it be because of a hidden agenda?
Are not our basic laws, as outlined by the forefathers, based upon Jedeo-Christian laws? If we take your thoughts on this into consideration, then almost all laws should be abolished since many were predicated upon biblical law.
Even 50 years ago, if you asked most people what Islam was, you would have been treated to a blank stare. Until as recently as forty or fifty years ago, the various Christian traditions and Judaism were the only schools of religious thought most Americans were acquainted with.
As for our legal system, the usefulness of the laws passed based upon Judeo-Christian ethics cannot be disputed. The laws passed deal, largely, with the consequences of our actions upon ourselves and others. But this is not consistent with an ethical system whose formulation and ultimate values are rooted in a mythical, metaphysical world beyonfd this one. Such a system of ethics divorces action from consequence as the pay-off , or punishment, lies not in this world, but in another.
For our ethiccal and moral systems, as well as the legal structures that are built upon them, to have any real meaning, they must be rooted in their consequences to this life and in this world. This results in a ethical and legal system wherein man is the measure of all things as the consequences to human life, here and now are the yard-stick by which our moral and legal decisions are measured.