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Tyranny of Freedom of Religion

Immediately after posting about the inevitability of government and why weakening government just gives other people the opportunity to exercise their strength, I read this:

The American people, in the vast majority, are a profoundly religious people. We must never allow the noisy liberal minority and radical groups like the ACLU to impose their secular vision on the majority. We must resist the oppression of religious liberty.

We must never allow the Liberal, anti-God, anti-religious freedom minority to remove the words Under God from the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. We must never allow them to abolish our National Motto: In God We Trust. John Fleming for US Congress

That’s from a sitting U.S. Congressman.

It is true that we, in this country, oppress theocrats. We tell them they are not allowed to use the weight of the State to impose their religious beliefs on us. For people like John Fleming, this means our government is too big and too powerful; he would much rather do the oppressing himself.

People like John Fleming require the rest of us to have a strong government in self-defense.

  1. Fred says:

    Preventing you from oppressing me is not the same thing as me oppressing you. Many far-right Christians seem to feel persecuted because they’re not allowed to persecute people who aren’t far-right Christians.