Bigmeandean
My point is that regardless how you feel religiously we shouldn't be making others live by our standards when we don't have to live in their shoes and deal with the things they deal with!
As Americans we used to have what I would label "community" standards, which to some degree, we still have. For example, don't parade around in public naked, public drunkenness, or pedophilia. Those standards were established by our forefathers and were based around the Christian faith (that's not a religious argument, but fact). As we have moved further and further from that standard we have abandoned any sense of moral decency and lost any concept of truth, or even right and wrong for that matter. There is a group of people whose primary agenda is to remove God, faith and morality from the public eye and eventually from our private lives. Too many people are afraid to acknowledge their faith publicly for fear of being ridiculed or have baseless claims thrown at them (like not being "tolerant"). I am not looking to discuss the finer points of the Christian faith in this forum but I would love to see your questions in a PM or email Dean (I'm not one to get angry about these things, but I will defend the truth).