What's this "we" stuff? I never agreed to that.
Well... you did. That the founders were governed by a set of moral principles found in the bible that influenced the kind of liberty they sought to preserve for us - was not an issue we had in contention.
I DO agree that most (all?) religions have moral stands based on common sense,
If that was the case, America would have come into existence in another culture long before White Men ever set foot on these shores. Hinduism, Islam, on back to the Egyptians had no religions that respected individual liberty and rights to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness. We are an anomaly in the entirety of mankind's written history that our government was based upon a foundation built on biblical principles of morality, and not under the castes of serf and noble.
That IS the only area I have a problem with MOST religious doctrine. I can't broaden that claim anymore because I am not familiar with every religious doctrine on earth,past,present,and future. IMHO,if you want to live your life a certain way and no one is purposely harming children or animals as a part of the doctrine,it's no business of mine and I have to place approving of disapproving of anything you do. Your business,not mine.
Self-governed means being guided by a set of moral principles that everyone agrees to in a way that enables a society to respects life, liberty and the property and pursuits of happiness without the leave of government or monarch to micromanage. Most religions on the planet would not permit such a covenant due their own castes and abuse encoded in their doctrines of lesser peoples. The Biblical/Judeo/Christian ethic is the reason our liberty is and was unique in all human history.
Complete agreement,there. It is a simple fact of life that ALL organizations will take as much power as they can grab,and then abuse it. That is because organizations are controlled by humans,and human nature never really changes.
Somehow that fact is willfully forgotten in this day and age of making men and political leaders into popes and saviors. I firmly believe in the adage that if a people are not self-governed by the biblical principles that established us (meaning all the stuff you and I would agree is morally reprehensible and wrong), then we will be ruled by the tyranny of men. As Benji Franklin rightly noted:
"As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they will have more need of masters".
You are an adult capable of making up your own mind,so it's none of my business what you believe. Nor is it my place to approve or disapprove of it. Live and let live.
Except that people need a Safe Space from hearing anything that is contrary to their Social Justice worldview.
That's pretty much the message of the New Testament,but since I am not a follower,I am in no position to argue the rightness or wrongness of it with a true believer.
Actually, that is NOT the message in the New Testament letters. That is simply a Leftist perversion of the Sermon on the Mount. Nowhere in scripture does Jesus tell His followers to empower government to serve others on their behalf. Doing so robs the Believer of their own personal responsibility to do charity and serve where he is led or compelled to serve out of a willing heart.
Not only that - but Jesus expounded on the fact that Union fairness is not the way God thinks if one considers the Parable of the laborers in the Harvest. Jesus talks about paying workers the same exact wage, regardless of the hour He commissioned them to work. His words to those who were outraged that the owner of the vineyard would pay the same wage to someone hired at dawn as someone whom he hired and only worked for an hour -
"You agreed to work for me at the price I offered did you not? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? So the last will be first, and the first will be last.†Matthew 20:14-16
That pretty much kills the idea of what modern society says is fairness.
