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Its unimaginable now, but considering less than 50% of young adults today consider themselves Christian and the rhetoric coming from most young people is that religion, especially Christianity is an evil, despicable belief system that has done nothing but hold society back from progress, is it possible that when today's twentysomethings get into power we could start seeing government regulation of religion? Certain things are almost certain in the next 30 years, such as churches no longer being tax exempt, Christian holidays being removed from our list of national holidays, and possibly the banning of religious symbolism/imagery where viewable by the public, but can/will it go farther than that? Will the Bible be banned as "hate literature" because of its passages concerning homosexuals? Considering most on this forum are in that young twentysomething age group and are strong atheist, what do you want to see for the future of religion in this country?
Its unimaginable now, but considering less than 50% of young adults today consider themselves Christian and the rhetoric coming from most young people is that religion, especially Christianity is an evil, despicable belief system that has done nothing but hold society back from progress, is it possible that when today's twentysomethings get into power we could start seeing government regulation of religion? Certain things are almost certain in the next 30 years, such as churches no longer being tax exempt, Christian holidays being removed from our list of national holidays, and possibly the banning of religious symbolism/imagery where viewable by the public, but can/will it go farther than that? Will the Bible be banned as "hate literature" because of its passages concerning homosexuals? Considering most on this forum are in that young twentysomething age group and are strong atheist, what do you want to see for the future of religion in this country?
Lots of people have been calling for the lifting of tax exempt status.
It's sad when one side considers tolerance shutting off the opinions they don't like. Being gay is not natural, it don't really take a bible to figure that out.
Most my family is extremely religious and they don't preach hate. They don't hate gays they just see them as sinners.
They love people, they'd pray for everyone,nothing hateful about that.
The abolitionist movement was not started by left wing liberals but rather christians who thought slavery to be wrong. We could go on and on.
I doubt it will ever happen though. For one thing there would really be a bad civil war, you think the first one was bad? Start burning bibles and see how that goes.
Christians absolutely mean well and get a bad rap from some of the more extreme ones.
Militant Christians are tremendous whiners. When they are told that they cannot foist their mumbo-jumbo nonsense on those who don't want it in their lives, they cry that their rights are being abridged.
The tax exempt status should be removed (perhaps with exception to charitable deductions) and creationism should be kept out of biology classrooms, but I'm all for religious liberty. I may be an atheist, but I'm not a totalitarian.
Militant Christians are tremendous whiners. When they are told that they cannot foist their mumbo-jumbo nonsense on those who don't want it in their lives, they cry that their rights are being abridged.
You attack Christians but you don't answer the question. I could say liberals are the whiners because they cry and carry on about presence of religion in public that they could ignore if they wanted to (which I don't understand why its so hard if its something you don't even believe in), or that gays and their allies are whiners because they cry and carry on about people that think gay sex isnt something to be celebrated, but I don't because its best to respect all points of views. Liberal version of tolerance: think like we do or be mocked, ridiculed, and humiliated.
You attack Christians but you don't answer the question. I could say liberals are the whiners because they cry and carry on about presence of religion in public that they could ignore if they wanted to (which I don't understand why its so hard if its something you don't even believe in), or that gays and their allies are whiners because they cry and carry on about people that think gay sex isnt something to be celebrated, but I don't because its best to respect all points of views. Liberal version of tolerance: think like we do or be mocked, ridiculed, and humiliated.
Honestly I think the homogenization of the holidays has more to do with commercialism than anti-religion. I think the retailers would love to tap into all the non-christian homes for some yule time joy during the holidays.
Its unimaginable now, but considering less than 50% of young adults today consider themselves Christian and the rhetoric coming from most young people is that religion, especially Christianity is an evil, despicable belief system that has done nothing but hold society back from progress, is it possible that when today's twentysomethings get into power we could start seeing government regulation of religion? Certain things are almost certain in the next 30 years, such as churches no longer being tax exempt, Christian holidays being removed from our list of national holidays, and possibly the banning of religious symbolism/imagery where viewable by the public, but can/will it go farther than that? Will the Bible be banned as "hate literature" because of its passages concerning homosexuals? Considering most on this forum are in that young twentysomething age group and are strong atheist, what do you want to see for the future of religion in this country?
I doubt illegal but religion would be more of a private affair than a public affair of those that do follow a religion or a supernatural belief. Churches would still be around but most people wont go to church. It is like that in Europe today.
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