“Atheist groups make headlines seeking to remove the Ten Commandments from court houses or nativity scenes from town halls.”
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Those who worship government, those see government as a standard of a moral order, they aren’t real Atheists.
Religion, in the western tradition, seeks to convince followers of it’s argument. A ‘moral’ government tries to force people to do (what it considers to be) “the right thing”. We are having these discussions now because a secular religion, Socialism, has decreed that ‘Individual Wealth’ is a moral crime.
The church, or any other CHOSEN moral order (Atheism too), conducts its business exclusively in the moral realm. But as Jefferson wrote; “Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”.
Liberals got things backwards. It is not the individual moral order that should be kept out of government. It is government that should not dictate the moral values to sovereign individuals. It is impossible for any person to separate from himself that moral substance that makes him an individual….that gives him his identity.
All opinion, all religion, and all morality is SUBjective in nature. Government must make every effort to act OBjectively. It must limit itself so as not to interfere with the individual CHOICE between good and evil. The only “moral government” is one that never interferes with that choice.
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There is no natural conflict between Christianity and Objectivists:
“And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.”
- Mark 12:17
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