Why wingnuts want to "acknowledge God" in government

[usregimechange]

Because they want to use government to maintain their power. Agreed?

[More Than A Feeling]

1. It seems as thought their faith is weak if it is not promoted by the state

My faith is weak too, but you don't see me asking for the ten commandments be tattooed on every childs forehead.

Possibly they are worried about persecution. Two things wrong with that
1. They are in the majority. 2. In the Bible, Jesus says to expect persecution for his name's sake and rejoice in it. So even if they were being persecuted, they should have the same dignity the martyr who were fed to the lions had.

The power thing is probably true, too, but that would apply more to the leadership. The rank and file are just scared and angry

[Tux]

4. Wrong

Jesus was speaking of the persecution Christians would get from the Roman Empire. Nothing permanent. Too bad the Bible can't be updated and these things cleared up.

[More Than A Feeling]

5. You don't think people who attempt to speak truth to power

as Jesus did, who love their neighbor as themselves, are persecuted?

What Jesus said definitely applied to his times, but he was also speaking larger and timeless truths.

[Tux]

6. At that time

He was speaking of persecution and timeless truths such as the golden rule and that lecture he gave on a mountain, can't remember what that is called.

[robertarctor]

2. No, they're postmillenialists

They believe that the true believers need to establish a 1,000-year "Christian" reich before Jesus can come back and claim the elect. While your average tither at that freeway tilt-up megachurch still buys the idea of the premillenialist idea of a "rapture," the real inner-circle Xtians are posties, who subscribe to the R.L. Rushdoony-spawned ideas behind "Christian Reconstructionism." And central to that system of belief is a theocratic government. These wingnut "Christians" are, at their core, fundamentally undemocratic.

[illflem]

3. The think that forcing their religion on everyone

makes them righteous in spreading the gospel.