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They don't want a theocracy

Theocracy is is exactly what they want.
When they are not planning to bring about Armageddon by looking for loopholes in the Bible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel.
Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]

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They don't want a theocracy

Theocracy is is exactly what they want.
When they are not planning to bring about Armageddon by looking for loopholes in the Bible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel.
Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]

In the 1400s and 1500s

Why look that far away? In the 1700s and 1800s, some American colonies (and states) didn't allow Baptists to marry.

Remember that when conservatives write Jefferson out of our history to fit their religious worldview.

these great 'cultural divides' you are suggesting simply don't exist.

Post-"freed the hell out of"-Afghanistan tried to execute a man for being a Christian (Italy saved him, granting him asylum). "With us or against us" is the rule of government for the extremist Muslims. You're either [insert their specific flavor of] Islamic or you're next on the list for extermination as a heathen. These extremists have no middle grounds, not even for their fellow Muslims if they practice the "wrong way".

If you think this is an isolated experience, just wait until the first amendment gets repealed by nuts here who think God should be put "back" in government, and the Baptists take over the country. I suspect they'll have some payback planned for the treatment Baptists were getting in early America.

Jefferson was a deist, and not a true Christian. He believed that there was a Jesus Christ, but he was not divine, only a man, who was also a great philosopher with a fine message of peace. The claim that America should return to its religious roots is a sham. It is also laughable when proposed by Baptists (1 and 2). Many of America's founders also had a deep distrust of Catholicism because of its historical support for 'divine right', and its quid pro quo relationship with European monarchs. The only contribution in Revolutionary Era America that poseur preachermen like Falwell and Robertson provided was the invention of reversible outerwear, one side blue, the other red, depending on which way the winds of war were blowing.

Instead of 'god given' rights, I prefer the term 'Natural Rights' , yet at the same time refuse to argue whether they truly exist or not, because under what Conservatives often claim is the proper methodology for auguring the Constitution's meaning, 'original intent' , the argument is moot. Instead, what matters is that America's Founders believed their was a class of rights which existed in a condition both pre-existent to a state's formation, and pre-eminent to its legitimate acts. Another axiom inherent within the concept of Natural Rights is that they must be possessed by all humans, because if they are instead only a privilege of citizenship, then they are only rights which a magnanimous state has conferred upon its subjects, and are therefore insecure.

Our government can only rightfully act where is has been granted the ability to act. This is a major flaw in Gonzales' reprehensible claim that there is no natural right of all humans to habeas corpus. The state cannot not lawfully act in the absence of a express grant. To advance this argument is to advance a theory of tyranny.

Mr. Bush has now twice honourably sworn an oath to defend on uphold the Constitution. The Constitution is the only sceptre of power for government officials. Mr. Bush now claims that Constitutional War Powers give him the authority to act without the very same document which confers legitimacy upon his office. This is absurd. The President is not above the supreme law of the land.

The United States of America was founded by people who wanted a Godly nation

The first amendment was not written for shits and giggles. The separation of church and state was and still is of vital importance to both the church and the state. Did you know that at the time people were thinking about the Bill of Rights, Virginia was jailing Baptists for the crime of being Baptist? Godly men indeed!