Should The Church Pulpit Be Used By Politicians As a Political Platform?

36shadow · #41 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 04:45 PM

The only thing important to the church is if the right to worhip freely (what ever religion they choose) and with out persacution of the law(not making it illegal to worship or worship in any religion you choos) Other political matters are up to the individuals private choice that he can make on his own with or without his or her own personal religious beliefs or not. His or her own spiritual consiense will tell him what to do if he has learned anything at church and he does not need the church directly telling him or her what they want to make sure they do . get it.

Mom_Adams · #42 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 36shadow

Mom you are wrong the loose interpretation of the constitution to sever the purpose of the church as a political pedastool is wrong. You have the right to worship freely anyway you choose as long as it does not infringe on others to do the same or not to worship at all. You have the right to have and discuss what ever polatics you wish in church or elsewhere, on the other hand the church does not have the right to use its religious power and convitions to sway the conversation in there congragation and just because you beleave in the political speaker does not mean everyone else does. But by the very place that he is speaking and the use of there religious beliefs he could sway someone more easily because they may just change there minds because the church is telling them that is what a good christian should do.

So what? Christians have depended on the Church to guide them in making decisions since the day Jesus Christ died on the cross. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong. But trying to stop it is illegal.

36shadow · #43 (**permalink**) 06-13-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mom_Adams

So what? Christians have depended on the Church to guide them in making decisions since the day Jesus Christ died on the cross. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong. But trying to stop it is illegal.

We are not in the days of jesus and this country is based on different laws and rights so if you want to go back to the place of jesus and the time then so be it your freedom of religion will be a joke but go for it. And no one wants to stop you from those moral choices the church wants to help you make the constitution of this nation on the other hand does not allow your church leader to make the pulpit a stage for political influence. That is not worship and no one is taking away you right to worship or right to talk about it so your one track mind because you want it allowed is unjustified and has no base. Show me were this right is given to you in the constitution the fact that the church is non profit and has no poitical bias is the reason they are not taxed to do so should take away that little shelter.