STODR
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If a government courthouse installs a display of the Koran in the foyer, and excludes all other representations of religious belief thereafter, is there an implication? I think there is.
STODR
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No, I don’t think it would have changed their mind.
Nope.above my pay grade…anyone who says they know is a liar
WuWei
105
No it isn’t. That is precisely what much of the left does, their government of course. Looks to it for guidance, counts on it for deliverance.
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WuWei
106
Yes. The ruling part of it anyway.
And the right worships Trump.
WuWei
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Sure you can. What is the scientific evidence that God exists?
Your link led to another:
"We're trying to represent the tremendous love of God," said the Rev. Jeremy Tuinstra, whose church, Redemption Community Church, owns Ragamuffins Coffee House at 385 Main St. in Laurel.
Now I’ll say that at surface this feels problematic, especially if the services in the coffee shop were held on private property. But in the article I linked to is this:
A few weeks later, challenges surfaced with changes to the requirements for the use of properties within the C-V or commercial village zone. Using the space as a commercial nonprofit, or as a gathering space for a house of worship, was not allowed without costly special exceptions.
If that’s the case then regulations were in place before the ministry arrived. Is that persecution?
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I’m sorry, maybe I need more caffeine. Are you saying that the baker would have still refused service to the gay couple after learning that they were Christian? Just want to be sure I understand your position.
Sees it as omnipotent, omniscient, salvific?
AZslim
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The (collective) pushing religion is OK?

WuWei:
The 1st Amendment.
My comment wasn’t directed to that.
WuWei
119

JayJay:

WuWei:
You (collective) have placed every bit of your faith (and that’s what it is) in man. In central government.
It is just as much a religion as Christianity, this atheism of yours. You are just as pious about it as any of those you mock.
You (collective) are not superior.
False dichotomy.
It’s not a dichotomy at all.
WuWei
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Then you are digressing to irrelevancies.
And of course it was.
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