Milesius wrote:Chap wrote:
Does the United States have a 'civic religion' now?
It has for a long time.
Maybe so --in some defacto sense. But, how horrible if it is true. How could anyone hope for this?
My thoughts on the National Day of Prayer
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Re: My thoughts on the National Day of Prayer
Maybe so --in some defacto sense. But, how horrible if it is true. How could anyone hope for this?
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
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Re: My thoughts on the National Day of Prayer
Chap wrote:
Does the United States have a 'civic religion' now?
Tarski wrote:Milesius wrote:It has for a long time.
Maybe so --in some defacto sense. But, how horrible if it is true. How could anyone hope for this?
I do not see how a state with a written constitution and a clear framework of law can acquire something like a civic religion in any meaningful sense if no provision is made for that in its constitution. Indeed, it does seem that the establishment of such a civic religion by law is specifically ruled out: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
It is of course possible for a customary practice to grow up of persons in public life behaving as if a civic religion had been legally established, when it has not. That may or may not have happened. If it has, there is still no way of bridging the gap between such wishful behavior, and saying that the United States actually has a civic religion.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: My thoughts on the National Day of Prayer
Chap wrote:Does the United States have a 'civic religion' now?
And it ain't Mormonism.Milesius wrote:It has for a long time.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.