religion in government

Christianity doesn't infer government helping everyone out...it infers us, each other ,doing it.

Okay, this is just my personal opinion. Back in the 50's we learned about our Christian heritage and what the founders of our country based our government on. In the meantime, we have left God (love and compassion) behind over the years. I really don't blame the reasoning (staunch unloving churches) but that really isn't God. We did have a code of ethics that we were taught even in the public schools. It was called manners. It was called the "golden rule." My grandmother always said we should love one another. Dog eat dog is definitely a part of our country. It's taught by example and lived out in our society (check out the bully mentality in the schools, tv examples, etc.) This was not always so. We can always point to bad examples, so I will give you some from my family that gives me great peace. When it would snow, my father would plow everyone's driveway and our road. He also offered to pull neighbors out of the ditch if they got stuck or take the tractor to the local store for food for the neighbors during that time. We were farmers. We made very little and never expected compensation for helping. It was just our way of life. My grandfather worked in a factory during world war II. A fellow worker had a press come down on his hand. There were no unions back then. The factory was just going to fire this man because he could no longer work on the line. My grandfather went to the foreman and begged that they would give this man a job in the office. They hired this man to be a bookkeeper. My grandfather went to bat for that man as if he were a son. He asked the foreman to please consider that this man and family would starve without this help. America became great because people cared. There have been many along the way that did not. The underbelly of a society that thrives is one that has compassion toward his fellow man. Over the years we just assume that the government will take care of it and we go along our own selfish way. We said we would make love and not war in the 60's and 70's instead we turned to cash and gave our children all we could. Now they expect it all and it doesn't matter who they trample to get it. Is this the way we all are. Not at all, but if we are kind it is just plain harder to live in this society and yet I can look at how people were mistreated in other ways (racism). Oh that we still had a respect and awe to love others as ourselves. That is what this country was based on. That we all are worth something and that we would have the opportunity to live that. That has been the fight since this country was established. Today we judge a person on his net worth more than that we are all created equal.

I think you are trying to put religion in with government. being a christian i will have to say that more than you realize, most christains go by what the bible says in regards to certain issues. For example: god said in the bible that a marriage was between a man and a woman. Now, he didn't say that you couldn't have relationships with your own kind but he did specify what a marriage should be. Also, one thing I want to point out, is that many call themselves christians but in reality they are some other believer like athiest or other religion. Falsifiers of the truth from what god said it was is why i have a problem with a person being gay and getting married. I don't have a problem with them being gay. Marriage is the part i have a problem with. If our children are supposed to have two adults in the household being there parents that is why I wouldn't want a person that's gay being married. it makes it official first of all. Next, it gives the child an upbringing that being they shouldn't look at other options of happiness that gay is all there is. i have friends that are gay and that are bi. most of them do not get married. why is it if they can live with out people ever knowing they are gay to wanting to be married just because people say that they can't be married. Rules of the road have changed and there are different types of changes in the house and senate because of religion and other areas that it's not fair for you to compare the way our "fore father's" believed to the way things are now. The men who founded this country believed that it should be men to be created equal. Not race, color, or age. It doesn't state equality for women and children and other ethnic brands that are out there. So, in reality was it based on Christain values. I think it was more solely based on the fact that they deserved the right to have there own church, worship the god they wanted to worship, and be free of persecution if they did such that. In fact I think the first people that came over were protestants. Which is similar to christainity but still not christianity in its true form. this is just my opinion.