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Hey psychg, I welcome anyone to challenge my comments or ask me to explain further, so dont ever feel bad to disagree with me, or think that it changes my view of you...I like a good debate and love when people share their honest opinions. So, in that spirit:
If you look at all of those issues, there are numerous churches and religions on both sides of each of those issues. So, my point is, you guys arent fighting religion, you are fighting different points of philosophy (or political views, social stances, etc) from a number of different religions. So, being religious myself, its almost funny when people say things like, "i hate that religion is so agains birth control" because my wife and I use birth control, I oppose the kind of war you talk about, I accept evolution (obviously) and that also goes on and on...
The majority of religious people are not like you though.
I will always debate these arguments because they are inaccurate. You, and others think you are fighting "religion" but you are fighting specific churches, which a totally different thing. And I dont see how normal religious people are shoving things down anyones throat. Some people have a moral opposition to things like abortion, regardless of religion, or lack thereof (I actually accept it in many cases...)
Majority of churchs
Compare the westburo baptists to a random Protestant or Jew, etc, and youll see what I mean. Hopefully that clears it up a bit
Westburo <<< Random Protestant <<< Jew, in terms of this argument to put things into scale. The average protestant still hold very conservative views of the world and wants their views to be made governmental law. Jew's are the least conservative and the least concerned, they're pretty docile compared to the latter two.