Why the Swiss Were Right to Prohibit Construction of Minarets
In the first case, you’re tragically misinformed about the principle of church and state. It stresses religious freedom; by definition it allows religions to supplant each other through peaceful means, including proselytizing. Freedom of religion isn’t freedom of Christianity to have supremacy, it is the freedom of people to exercise their religion without state-based constraint. Much like the free market argument, the state can take no stake in disparate outcomes.
As for your charming belief that the Christian bible does not command its adherents to subjugated non-believers, look at the old testament, where you will find litany after ode to the beauty of genocide.
Proselytizing is not forcing. As much as I, a Wiccan, can get annoyed with someone coming to my door to tell me I should convert or go to hell (granted folks have been more tactful than that), no one is forcing me to do anything. I can say “not interested” and shut the door. For most Christians, the Old Testament is for reference and is overridden by the New Testament by a king who said specifically that “kingdom is not of this world.” For those of the Jewish faith, any commands from God in the Old Testament were for that time and place only. They are not commands still in force today as those in the Koran are. There is nothing in the core of either of these religions that specifically states that followers must IMPOSE or FORCE their beliefs on anyone else. Nor do they state that religion and state MUST be mixed.
