Religion follow-up
Jumping-off point
In the article above, there is a legal case going on upstate where a portrait of Jesus is hanging in a public high school. I'm not going to say anything other than there is no portrait of Charles Darwin in my church.
We mistakenly think that the Constitution grants us freedom of religion, when in fact it prohibits Congress from passing laws restricting the practice of religion. For better, worse, or indifferent, that can be stretched to include "no religion."
All I ask from my fellow Earthlings is to do no harm, whether you call that Christian love, the Wiccan law of three, or just plain being nice to each other.
I do reserve the right to titter at some of the odder facets of religion. Jesus really checked in on the LDS in America during his dead weekend? Xenu populated the earth with detonated souls? Fine, TomKat, just keep your feet off the couch.
My big concern is megachurches. I fear there is no personal connection in such a large congregation. (Yet, I support consolidated schools. Go figure.) Of course I'd like to have a few more people attend my church, but I don't want to wade through concert-sized crowds to get there.
Which leads into my next point: music. I've admitted my territoriality when it comes to music at my church. So somebody comes in with a guitar? Me no like.
But I also worry about the possible fundamentalization of the US. Sure, we might end up truly "one nation under God." But you don't have to look far to see that countries ruled by Islamic fundamentalists don't fare too well.
C'est la vie.
In the article above, there is a legal case going on upstate where a portrait of Jesus is hanging in a public high school. I'm not going to say anything other than there is no portrait of Charles Darwin in my church.
We mistakenly think that the Constitution grants us freedom of religion, when in fact it prohibits Congress from passing laws restricting the practice of religion. For better, worse, or indifferent, that can be stretched to include "no religion."
All I ask from my fellow Earthlings is to do no harm, whether you call that Christian love, the Wiccan law of three, or just plain being nice to each other.
I do reserve the right to titter at some of the odder facets of religion. Jesus really checked in on the LDS in America during his dead weekend? Xenu populated the earth with detonated souls? Fine, TomKat, just keep your feet off the couch.
My big concern is megachurches. I fear there is no personal connection in such a large congregation. (Yet, I support consolidated schools. Go figure.) Of course I'd like to have a few more people attend my church, but I don't want to wade through concert-sized crowds to get there.
Which leads into my next point: music. I've admitted my territoriality when it comes to music at my church. So somebody comes in with a guitar? Me no like.
But I also worry about the possible fundamentalization of the US. Sure, we might end up truly "one nation under God." But you don't have to look far to see that countries ruled by Islamic fundamentalists don't fare too well.
C'est la vie.