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Originally Posted by Gun Grape
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?
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I already told you: left-overs from a previously Christian country. If we really were imposing our beliefs on you, you wouldn't be drinking at all. The only blue laws still in effect are kept there because businesses like a day where they can be off without worrying about competitors. And now, most stores are open by about noon-I know that because I've gone to the store on Sundays. And the percentage of people in America who were not Christians at the time the blue laws were passed equaled maybe 1% of the population.
So, no: that's not imposing our beliefs on you. You don't have to go to Church; you don't have to pray, you don't have to read the Bible, you don't have to profess Christianity, ect. If the only "examples" of Christians imposing their beliefs on you you can find are 400-year old laws that are no longer in effect except by popular demand, then you must really be desparate. Sharia Law is religious imposition. The Judaic Law is religious imposition. The 1000 year reign of Christ WILL be religious imposition.
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That wasn't what you claimed in your post. And i am forced to practice your beliefs.
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I'm at a loss to figure out what you mean. I said in my post that we do not impose our beliefs on you, and I said it again in this post.
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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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Those are commandments given to the nation of Israel. They are not applicable to Christians because we were given a new code of living in the New Testament. Anyway, the Hebrew sabbath was from Friday Evening until Saturday evening: note the absence of Sunday in this description.
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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.
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Paul Hill was mentally ill. And these have been refuted. Imo, if Hill wasn't mentally ill, he should have been executed for murder. Bray had no excuse. Did he get the death penalty? He should have.
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Or groups like The Lambs of Christ, The Army of God.
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Those groups mentioned are Catholic groups: Catholic does not equal Christian. I will not deny that the Roman Catholic Church is one of the most murderous, and evil organizations in history.
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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
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Well, if they're Catholics; they're not real Christians=fact. Bu I'll give some difference bewtween Christians and Muslims who've used violence (at the danger of going off subject)-
1. The Qu'ran preaches that killing is okay in the name of Allah. And that "minorty" has never been defined.
2. Christians have refuted the acts of violence; the Muslim community has not.
3. Have Catholics ever attacked the United States or any other country? What are the casualty lists from both sides?
4. You take less than ten examples of violence on the part of Catholics and maybe a few Christians and declare that Christianity is no different from Islam in that regard. Which, of course, it is different because of reasons given above.