Message from @Dusty Morgan

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2018-12-04 04:13:47 UTC  

Even freaking orthadox Jews do this.

2018-12-04 04:13:53 UTC  

What's your point?

2018-12-04 04:14:14 UTC  

@Dusty Morgan yeah but that isn’t the kind of power the founding fathers were talking about; they are telling their congregation to do something, but they have the right in the United States not to do it, and the church has no power to tell the president to do something

2018-12-04 04:14:29 UTC  

Their can’t be a papal bull to the US to stop doing something

2018-12-04 04:14:49 UTC  

People are allowed to tell other people how to vote. That's free expression. Literally all politicians do that, I don't see you saying that's bad.

2018-12-04 04:14:56 UTC  

That even thought there is separation of church and state, the religions are veying for power.

2018-12-04 04:15:05 UTC  

Christians used their overwhelming majority to get laws passed already.

2018-12-04 04:15:09 UTC  

...Yeah. Because they're institutions made by humans.

2018-12-04 04:15:22 UTC  

And that's democracy.

2018-12-04 04:15:40 UTC  

Even though the churches technically not allowed to lobby, they are allowed too.

2018-12-04 04:15:48 UTC  

"We want this thing, we'll vote for it. Oh, look, enough people voted for the thing."

2018-12-04 04:15:57 UTC  

Religion is an idea like all other ideas, and people have the right to follow it and espouse it as any other idea

2018-12-04 04:16:14 UTC  

I disagree

2018-12-04 04:16:26 UTC  

and we should look at "Religion" and compare them

2018-12-04 04:16:27 UTC  

So you what happens if a religion gets majority and uses its majority to abolish the constitution and puts in religious rule?

2018-12-04 04:16:36 UTC  

Welcome to democracy!

2018-12-04 04:16:44 UTC  

That is just it.

2018-12-04 04:17:08 UTC  

UNITED STATES isn't a DEMOCRACY, it is a constitutional republic.

2018-12-04 04:17:29 UTC  

Whose constitution is based off of systems of editing that rely on democratic processes.

2018-12-04 04:17:29 UTC  

That’s the thing; if the majority of the population gets behind any idea, they can pass an amendment

2018-12-04 04:17:34 UTC  

All democracies have a tendacy to become tyrannical, that is why teh founding fathers made us a constitutional republic.

2018-12-04 04:17:38 UTC  

As our Republican constitution allows

2018-12-04 04:17:40 UTC  

So, like you said, anything can change with enough democratic support.

2018-12-04 04:18:02 UTC  

If you don't like it, pass an amendment that doesn't allow any more amendments.

2018-12-04 04:18:08 UTC  

The government doesn't have the right to subvert the constitution.

2018-12-04 04:18:14 UTC  

I’m not even religious myself but I find that logic lacking

2018-12-04 04:18:15 UTC  

Dusty, you must not be aware that a republic is a representative government.

2018-12-04 04:18:15 UTC  

Uh...yes it does.

2018-12-04 04:18:17 UTC  

That's the point.

2018-12-04 04:18:18 UTC  

Our rights are inherited.

2018-12-04 04:18:28 UTC  

Not a privileged granted by the government or a service.

2018-12-04 04:18:41 UTC  

Then how are they so easily taken from you by them?

2018-12-04 04:18:45 UTC  

Amendments are literally subversions of the constitution

2018-12-04 04:18:53 UTC  

^^^

2018-12-04 04:18:59 UTC  

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2018-12-04 04:19:06 UTC  

The constitution keeps the fucking government in check.

2018-12-04 04:19:08 UTC  

Not the citizens.

2018-12-04 04:19:09 UTC  

They are privileges. You likely have no inherent authority or right to the things you're thinking of when you say 'right'.

2018-12-04 04:19:24 UTC  

Well, then, it was a bad idea to let the government change the constitution, wasn't it, Dusty?

2018-12-04 04:19:28 UTC  

Ugh... I give up, please, just please look up the constitution.

2018-12-04 04:19:31 UTC  

PLease read it.