Iowa’s GOP Senate Candidates Vow to Block Judges Who Won’t Follow ‘Biblical Law’ (leader, state)

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

Most of the moral teachings of the Bible are UNIVERSAL. They do not favor one religion over another. There is no theocracy here.

The Bible is a religious text. Any rulings based on the Bible are informed by religion. A judiciary that bases all its rulings on the Bible is one of the tenets of a theocracy.

We do not live in a theocracy. That's a good thing.

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

And it's wrong to dictate to others what their religious beliefs should be.

Please tell me what right or wrong from the Bible is incorrect and what you base your objection on.

[HeyJude514]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Please tell me what right or wrong from the Bible is incorrect and what you base your objection on.

See the Book of Leviticus.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Please tell me what right or wrong from the Bible is incorrect and what you base your objection on.

I base my objection on the fact that the Bible is a religious text. And I am not religious.

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

I base my objection on the fact that the Bible is a religious text. And I am not religious.

What then determines right from wrong?

[EntropyGuardian]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

What then determines right from wrong?

You have to have someone tell you what is right and wrong? You have no morality outside of what the Bible tells you is right or wrong? If you never read a bible you'd be killing people and stealing?

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

That "lunatic fringe" is over 80% of the country.

Prove it.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

What then determines right from wrong?

Outcomes.

I try to live my life without doing harm to others.

[Smash255]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

That "lunatic fringe" is over 80% of the country.

You do realize that being a Christian or being religious is not the same thing as wanting Judicial Rulings to be based on religion or the bibie.....

[CincyIU29]

It's even funnier because secular Europe has lower crime rates and equitable justice systems compared to states like Iowa and Mississippi where bible thumpers reign supreme.

Certainly these people wouldn't mind if people had a Koranic interpretation of the laws cause both texts advocate similar things if you read both.