Stop Forcing Their Religion…

[PoliticalChic]

….down American’s throats.


Time and again we find some government school grad railing against religious folks ‘ramming their religion down my throat,’ or ‘imposing your religious beliefs blah blah blah.’

“You Bible thumpers ARE trying to ram your superstitions down our throats.” Does America Need Be Saved From Theocracy?

And demands that opposing thought be shut down:

"Hatred is not just an "opinion." It is an attempt to hurt others.
These venues have no obligation to give this fraud a forum. Judging from the posted link, the city councils concluded that his speech would offend their community values."
Wales has banned parents from stopping their children learning about sex, religion and LGBT people



Careful consideration of this subject, and so very many more, prove rule #2:
To know what the Left is guilty of, just watch what they blame the other side of doing.

And nowhere is that more clear than in demanding others adhere to their beliefs.




1.”Barr: The Real People Trying To ‘Impose Their Values’ On Others Are ‘Militant Secularists’

It has been long convenient for secularists to insist that it is possible for government to be neutral about religion by imposing their religion on everyone.

2. …religion is being driven out of the marketplace of ideas and there’s a organized militant secular effort to drive religion out of our lives” “To me the problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on nonreligious people, it’s the opposite — it’s that militant secularists are trying to impose their values on religious people and they’re not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.”
Barr: The People Trying To 'Impose Their Values' Are 'Militant Secularists'

 

[The Original Tree]

NeoNazism is not a religion. It is a Death Cult!

 

[PoliticalChic]

NeoNazism is not a religion. It is a Death Cult!

Maybe both.

 

[jwoodie]

The fact that they believe Donald Trump is the Devil proves your point.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The fact that they believe Donald Trump is the Devil proves your point.

And, on that note....

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam, which just so happens to be the single biggest force in the world opposing the very notion of secularism.

Sometimes I think people are just pre-programmed automatons, what with the way they can hold such ridiculously inconsistent views. Political correctness will be the death of us all.

 

[PoliticalChic]

3. [In an] “attack article against Barr last month in The New York Times, Katherine Stewart put the words religious liberty and religious freedom in scare quotes, even though these are longstanding natural rights that enjoy U.S. legal protection for very good reasons that include staunching bigotry.

Mr. Barr has embraced wholesale the ‘religious liberty’ rhetoric of today’s Christian nationalist movement. When religious nationalists invoke ‘religious freedom,’ it is typically code for religious privilege. The freedom they have in mind is the freedom of people of certain conservative and authoritarian varieties of religion to discriminate against those of whom they disapprove or over whom they wish to exert power.




4. …the First Amendment. The clause concerning religion reads, in full: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” A full quotation undoes her conclusion that the Constitution prohibits religious people from equal access to public funds. That is not only historically and legally inaccurate, it’s obviously textually inaccurate from any unbiased person’s plain reading.




5. …she’s doing exactly what Barr says she’s doing, while pretending that she is not.

Stewart is making a “secular effort to drive religion out of our lives” and trying to impose her values on religious people while “not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.”
Her values say that only pagans — people with atheist, pantheist, syncretist, or agnostic religious beliefs — may fully access public goods. People with theistic religious beliefs may not. This is not equality or tolerance — it is prejudice.”
Barr: The People Trying To 'Impose Their Values' Are 'Militant Secularists'


…only pagans — people with atheist, pantheist, syncretist, or agnostic religious beliefs —government school grads who have never questioned their masters.




Under which President did this neo-Marxism take hold?
Hint: a Democrat.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam, which just so happens to be the single biggest force in the world opposing the very notion of secularism.

Sometimes I think people are just pre-programmed automatons, what with the way they can hold such ridiculously inconsistent views. Political correctness will be the death of us all.

"Sometimes I think people are just pre-programmed automatons,...."

It's what they get in government schooling and from the media....and those who buy it are too cowardly to question it.
Or....too dumb: they never read a book not assigned by the Leftists.

 

[bullwinkle]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

My family meets for breakfast once a month at a fairly busy restaurant. We are at least a dozen, sometimes more and a table is always waiting for us. We ALWAYS have prayer before eating and NEVER have I ever hears a word of criticism from surrounding customers.

One can always find a critic of any kind, from the Mom jeans trend to wearing veils. This is just another mole hill.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. “The secularists Stewart represents just refuse to acknowledge that their religious beliefs are in fact religious beliefs, and of a far creepier and deadlier kind than Christians’.


What is, for example, the belief that human beings can have the “female mind” embedded in a “male body,” if not a religious belief? In a materialistic religious view, how is it even possible to have a gendered mind? Is gender solely a product of chemicals? If not, what else could it be for people who do not admit to a nonmaterial realm?


Further, what is more cultish than forcing people to believe through social pressure, law, and other means that a man is a woman is a man is a woman? What is more totalitarian than to force people to pretend that males and females are interchangeable …” Barr: The People Trying To 'Impose Their Values' Are 'Militant Secularists'



That's the 'religion' that the militant secularists/Democrats/Liberals/Progressives insist all bend the neck and the knee in worship.


To embrace tolerance is to cease to believe in anything.

Chesterton

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. “The secularists Stewart represents just refuse to acknowledge that their religious beliefs are in fact religious beliefs, and of a far creepier and deadlier kind than Christians’.

….the belief that it is possible to fix the world by applying government pressure? That is not a belief that can be wholly validated by research or experience. In fact, research and experience both indicate that central planning usually makes life even more nasty, brutish, and short.

So what is this unfounded, undocumented, unprovable faith in government power to correct human psyches and behavior if not a religious (metaphysical) belief? It is also an unprovable and metaphysical belief about what a human is — a thing that can be “corrected” by politics and whose “error” is not intrinsic to itself. Again, these are all metaphysical, religious beliefs with no empirical basis or possibility of being fully empirically proven.” Barr: The People Trying To 'Impose Their Values' Are 'Militant Secularists'




8. The secularists believe that they are as God....and can create a new man.

The birth of "The New Soviet Man" was the stated aim of Marxism, breeding a new evolutionary form of human being who will think, look, and act differently. The next footage was the Nazi attempt to do exactly the same thing: in German, "We must create a new man! A new life form should appear!"

"In both systems we have the ideology of creating a new man. Both systems don't agree with human nature as it is...they are at war with human nature. Both are based on false biology, and false sociology."
Françoise Thom, professor of Soviet history, Sorbonne, Paris

 

[2aguy]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam, which just so happens to be the single biggest force in the world opposing the very notion of secularism.

Sometimes I think people are just pre-programmed automatons, what with the way they can hold such ridiculously inconsistent views. Political correctness will be the death of us all.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam,

Cause muslims murder people...just ask Theo Van Goh...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam, which just so happens to be the single biggest force in the world opposing the very notion of secularism.

Sometimes I think people are just pre-programmed automatons, what with the way they can hold such ridiculously inconsistent views. Political correctness will be the death of us all.

Oddly enough, the aggressive attitudes towards eliminating Christianity are not repeated concerning Islam,

Cause muslims murder people...just ask Theo Van Goh...

Well....they did get a Muslim in the presidency.....

 

[Papageorgio]

The Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. Many believe that means freedom from religion but that was or is not the case today. We have a freedom to practice our religion without fear or retribution from the government.

 

[BlindBoo]

We have a freedom to practice our religion without fear or retribution from the government.

No we don't. We can practice government approved religions without fear.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion. Many believe that means freedom from religion but that was or is not the case today. We have a freedom to practice our religion without fear or retribution from the government.

"We have a freedom to practice our religion without fear or retribution from the government."


Sorry, P.....but that is not the case.

1. War Against Religion


Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas…

Only a miserable leftist would dedicate their life to stomping out any trace of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage

Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas… | Weasel Zippers



2. Chase Bank told a businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it could offend people. Antonio Morales, owner of Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard as a favor to the branch manager, who is one of his clients. The tree remained in the lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until Tuesday. Morales said his friend called him Wednesday to tell him the tree had to go. She later showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it. The bank referred questions to corporate offices.

View Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/03/chase-bank-orders-tree-removed



3. NPR Reporter Apologizes for Saying ‘Christmas’ On Air | The Blaze
"Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don‘t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this."

Graham also strongly chastised the U.S. military, which has restricted Christians displays of faith.


“Chaplains in the United States military are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Isn’t that a shame that a chaplain in the Christian faith is not allowed to pray in the name of Christ? So yes, there is a war, no question about it.”
As America Celebrates Christmas, Rev. Franklin Graham Says Secular 'War' Rages Against Christians


4. The movie “Hop”

This "Easter" film has no references to the Christian religion. None. Nothing about Jesus on Easter. Not even going to church. Nada. There is, however, a possible pagan allusion. Even thousands of years before Christ, say, 4,000 years ago, some in the Middle East worshipped a goddess named Astarte. Some say this fertility goddess is the source of the egg traditions that surround Easter, the name of which is supposedly derived from Astarte. Others attribute the eggs and rabbits of Easter to a later, German goddess, Eostre. Regardless of whether Easter came from Astarte or Eostre, the Christian church attempted to "redeem" this worship by attaching its festivals to Christ's resurrection. The bunnies and eggs remained, but the meaning has largely been about Jesus for centuries. Apparently, now that we've thrown out Jesus, but not the eggs and bunnies, the concept has come full circle, as the Easter Bunny Dad in "Hop" refers to the delivering of eggs and Easter baskets as a "4,000-year tradition." Hmm.
Easter Bunny lays an egg Easter Bunny lays an egg - WND


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"Stalin remained a consistent advocate of the scientific and materialistic basis of all knowledge....Any manifestation of a challenge to the worldview of Soviet communism was met throughout with a relentless hostility."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," by Richard Overy, p. 277

5. Seattle school renames Easter eggs 'Spring Spheres'

"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.

The Seattle elementary school isn't the only government organization using spring over Easter. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts. Western Washington's Christmas Day weather statistics



6. "…on the New York Times’ Web site about a play being written by television screenwriter Theresa Rebeck for the University of Delaware Drama Department headed by a professor named Sanford Robbins …

“O Beautiful” also deals with suicide, date rape, gun rights, the founding fathers and, of course, abortion — in a subplot starting with the first scene, in which a pregnant teenager, Alice, seeks counsel from Jesus Christ, who wanders through the high school and characters’ homes without explanation. Jesus, rendered as sympathetic to everyone irrespective of their politics, reaches a provocative conclusion when Alice, who has been raped, asks where in the Bible he opposes abortion. …

Even if the play is the greatest thing written for the theater this year, when you do the quick Hollywood treatment, it’s “A Slurpee swilling, pro-abortion Jesus attacks the Tea Party.” This can only end badly: the arts edition



7. HOUSTON, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Liberty Institute, on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4, The American Legion Post 586, and the National Memorial Ladies, returned to federal court with new allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its director of the Houston National Cemetery. Last month, Liberty Institute successfully represented Houston pastor Scott Rainey in the same federal court after Houston VA officials tried to prevent him from praying in Jesus' name at a Memorial Day ceremony.

Today, Liberty Institute amended its original lawsuit that states the Department of Veterans Affairs and its Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are engaging in religious viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by adding new incidents of religious hostility including:

VA Forbids Mention of God at Funerals for Veterans and Requires Families to Submit Prayer for Approval to the Government: For 30 years, the VFW District 4 burial team, at the request of the family of the deceased, has honored veterans by performing the VFW burial ritual during private burial services at the Houston National Cemetery. For 20 years, The American Legion Post 586 has honored our veterans by performing its burial ritual for fallen veterans. On at least four separate occasions, government officials told the burial teams that prayer and religious speech could no longer be included in the burial ritual unless the family submits a specific prayer or message in writing to Director Ocasio for her approval. Government official Jose Henriquez also told the VFW Honor Guard Commander, Junior Vice Commander and Chaplain that the word "God" is forbidden.
VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to families:
VA Tells Volunteers to Remove "God Bless" from Condolence Cards to Grieving Families:
VA Closes Cemetery Chapel; Uses it for Storage:
Stay up to date on this case at www.libertyinstitute.org.
http://news.yahoo.com/veterans-affairs-bans-mention-god-funerals-vets-232205629.html



8. Sheila Jackson Lee Diverts Islamic Terror Hearings Into Attack on Christians

It's nice to see moonbat congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participating in the hearing Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called on the continuing terror threat posed by Islamists. Unfortunately, she chose to divert the hearings to target Christians:

"Are you familiar with the Christian militants?" she asked former New York Dept. of Correctional Services official Patrick Dunleavy. "Can one might say that they might possibly want to undermine this country because right now the right for women to choose is a Constitutional right but people disagree with it but here is an individual trying to undermine the protections that are given to women? Would you suggest that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?"
Moonbattery: Sheila Jackson Lee Diverts Islamic Terror Hearings Into Attack on Christians




The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,


“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Hussein Obama

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9. NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school
ADF-allied attorney files motion to reconsider and hold off decision in case involving 10-year-old girl
LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.

Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling...has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the...public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” The court approved the order.

The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities.

In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”
Redirected AllianceDefenseFund



10. On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired [Amanda] Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.[3] Soon afterward, many bloggers began to quote Marcotte's blog, especially posts in which she attacked the Catholic Church's position on birth control and access to abortion, writing, "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"[4] Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote, "Her hostility to religion and in particular the Catholic Church should alarm Edwards."[5] Journalist Terry Moran wrote, on an ABC News blog, "her comments about other people's faiths could well be construed as hate speech.”
Amanda Marcotte - Wikipedia

 

[whitehall]

Seeing this stuff should remind you that we live in the greatest Country in the world with a written Bill of Rights which among other things guarantees Freedom of Religion. Mostly liberal democrats have infringed on the freedoms with bizarre rulings like "separation of Church and State" which is not found in the Constitution and a "right to privacy" not found in the Constitution to justify the murder of the unborn so we have to be ever vigilant.

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. “It is quite simply a lie to say that atheism is not a religious belief. It cannot be empirically documented that there is no God. For one thing, nobody has visited the outermost reaches of the universe in an attempt to find Him, assuming that is a way He could be found. It is simply an assumption, a religious assumption, that an atheist makes.


And that’s fine. Christians aren’t the ones who have a problem with people making religious assumptions.

The secular, pagan, atheist types are the ones who claim religious assumptions are evil. They do so because they erroneously believe they are free from such assumptions. But in truth, no one is.”
Barr: The People Trying To 'Impose Their Values' Are 'Militant Secularists'





10 From the Amazon review of Godless, by Coulter…

Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).

Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted.
And....Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "...the Socialist Savior of the Democratic Party."

the Catechism: you didn't build that.....any success is just dumb luck


Sen. Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) on Tuesday called for liberal activists to believe in climate change as if it were a "religion." Dem Senator Hirono: Believe in Climate Change Like a Religion

 

[candycorn]

Too many people view the notion of the separation of church and state as implying that they are justified in trying to extinguish every voluntary expression of religion from all facets of our society. It doesn't.

My family meets for breakfast once a month at a fairly busy restaurant. We are at least a dozen, sometimes more and a table is always waiting for us. We ALWAYS have prayer before eating and NEVER have I ever hears a word of criticism from surrounding customers.

One can always find a critic of any kind, from the Mom jeans trend to wearing veils. This is just another mole hill.

correct.

it’s a desperate cry for attention from Jumbo

 

[PoliticalChic]

11. Somehow, only the religion of the secularists is allowed to be advanced….


“….the Progressive Left will work even harder to crush dissent, especially when it comes to climate change.

For years, this quasi-religious movement has throttled university professors and dissident scientists who dare to question the accuracy of computer-model-generated forecasts of doom.

But Congresswoman Kathy Castor has gone further. The Florida Democrat, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Jan. 27, asking that the giant search engine crack down on YouTube videos that convey “climate denial and climate misinformation.”

She wants him to remove videos questioning climate change; list “climate misinformation” as “borderline content”; “stop monetizing” such videos; and “take steps to correct the record for millions of users who have been exposed to climate misinformation on YouTube.”
A Growing Climate of Censorship



It's a theocracy of the Left.....


.....and America isn't going to stand for it.