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On 9/2/11 1:39 PM, BAR wrote:
In , says... Fredom of religion, not freedom from religion. The first amendment doesn't give you the ability to regulate my religion. If you want to get into defining what a religion is then we can take the discussion in that direction. I agree completely with everything you said in the paragraph above. The Founding Fathers did want people to be able to practice the religion of their choice, but were emphatic that they did not want the government to be involved in endorsing any religion. So many of the early colonies were established because of Europeans having state sponsored religion. I am Catholic, in the not too distant past Catholics were not considered Christians and many people called them "Papist" who could not be a good Americans because they were loyal to the pope. The article from Wikipedia discusses the history of "papist", but even when Kennedy was running for president his detractors was calling him a Papist. The KKK called Catholics Papist and Jew's Christ Killers. We don't want to return to a period where the majority religion can restrict the minorities ability to practice the religion of their choice, or the Catholics and Jews would not be tolerated by many in the majority. from Wikipedia Papist is a term, usually disparaging or an anti-Catholic slur, referring to the Catholic Church, its teaching, practices or adherents. It was coined during the English Reformation to denote a Christian whose loyalties were to the Pope, rather than to the Church of England. Over time, however, it came to mean one who supported Papal authority over all Christians and thus became a popular term, especially among Anglicans and Presbyterians. The word, dating from 1534, derives via Middle French from Latin papa, meaning "Pope".[2] The word was in common use until the mid-nineteenth century, as shown by its frequent appearance in Macaulay's History of England from the Accession of James II and in other historical or controversial works of that period. It also appeared frequently in the compound form "Crypto-Papist".[3][4][5] |
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