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Originally Posted by ExNavyAmerican
Most blue laws are not enforced anymore, or have been repealed. And that's not imposition of religion.
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So what do you call it? Laws are written that prohibit me from doing something that is legal on every day EXCEPT the christian day of worship.
Thats not christians imposing their beliefs on me?
Your claim was:
would be like
using politics to impose your beliefs upon the populace, and using education to indoctrinate the next generation.*
Christians do neither.
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But, since there is no evidence of forced conversion; and since no one's forcing you to go to church, nor practice any of our beliefs, I think that you'll survive, and in so doing, you'll look up the meaning of religious imposition.
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That wasn't what you claimed in your post. And i am forced to practice your beliefs.
By forbidding me to work on sunday the Blue Laws are making me follow your 4th commandment: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. "
or : But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work..." (Exodus 20:10).
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Completely untrue. Those acts were commited by splinter far-right wing political groups-there are no such Christian groups.
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You mean like former Presbyterian minister Paul Hill who killed a Doctor and his bodyguard in P-cola?
or the Lutheran Rev. Michael Bray who was convicted of two counts of conspiracy and one count of possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to 10 bombings of women's health clinics and offices of liberal advocacy groups in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Or groups like The Lambs of Christ, The Army of God.
Just a few examples in the US.
Sad how christians are quick to write off people who commit act of terrorism under the christian banner as "not real christians" but will condem the whole Muslim faith for the acts of a few