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By: Borman

Borman — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:37:58 +0000

Last time I looked at the Constitution, the non-establishment / freedom of religion clause was NOT limited to religious institutions, but applied to all citizens. Of course, I’m not a constitutional scholar, so when I see;

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,…”

I take it to mean that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Silly me.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:35:40 +0000

Fahran, what do you expect from an opportunistic religion like christianity. The don’t even respect the Sabbath which is Saturday, they call the Sabbath, Sunday because it is more convenient for them economically.

By: Fahran

Fahran — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:33:08 +0000

Tom#5:

So you’re saying that the hypothetical would never happen because ALL Muslims everywhere follow ALL “age-old” injunctions the way, for example, all Christians and Jews follow the “age-old” injunction to “remember the Sabbath and keep it holy” (which was a re-write of the Hebrew “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”)

Because, as we all know, no Jew or Christian works on the Sabbath—right?

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:31:57 +0000

Tom#8 sounds like you christians are counting on the Muslims to be more charitable that you hypocritical christians.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:26:40 +0000

Fahran#5, Here’s where your strawman argument comes to life and beats you down. Muslims have an age-old injunction to show hospitality to the stranded traveler—and while I’m not certain it applies to “idolaters”, it absolutely applies to “people of the book”, i.e. Jews and Christians. He would be absolutely bound to help her, even if he had to smash his dishes afterwards because they had touched unclean lips.
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Tell me, do you have any opinions about religious liberty not based on wholly counterfactual bigoted caricature?