So what if we asked people if they'd rather die or get life in prison?
It's just a horribly abusable system. People'd just make sure the person who's about to "choose" life in prison or death is horribly abused in prison by all the guards and other prisoners and is made miserable in every way possible. Not to mention that innocent people who feel they wouldn't be able to survive in prison (see: Alan Turing) could end up choosing death.
America is a Christian nation founded by Christians. The fact that certain people are trying to corrupt our values and usurp our country is troubling.
How do you feel about the amendments to the Constitution that ended slavery?
This country was a slave-owning nation founded by slave-owners. It isn't anymore.
How about the biblical laws by which adulteresses may be stoned to death?
How about the biblical laws by which one may not plant fields with multiple different kinds of plants?
We must obey the law of the land, even if we strongly disagree with it. Otherwise, it would be disrespectful to the Lord, as he established our nation.
You didn't answer any of the questions. In fact, your response makes no sense at all.
You said that the US was founded by Christians and that its original values were Christian. You went on to say that these values had been usurped.
Vector responded with several counterexamples of things that were fine with the founding fathers (who remember, established the country with Christian values according to you) and things that are mandated in the Bible which are widely ignored.
You must clearly state your position on slavery, stoning of adulteresses and not planting different plants in the same field in order to have a meaningful response. Your vague, semi-quoted answer is meaningless as you said earlier that the law of the land
was the law of God when the nation was founded.
God allowed America's creation and its continued existence.
Ok, this? This to me is by far the most dangerous sentiment that religion can enable. I'm glad it only exists in a tiny minority of people.
In essence, it can be used to justify absolutely
anything because "God must have allowed it" (this was used by Tony Blair to justify entering the Iraq war, incidentally). The sheer dangerousness of an idea that can just universally justify anything you feel like is just... ugh.
How about "God allows atheism to exist, therefore God established atheism"?