Religion in Government

Please reread your post 35.You quoted a question. You then made statments that had nothing to do with it.It has been suggested that you will be recieved better if you are able to write with only the normal number of errors and typos. I suggest that if you want to debate at all you will have to be able to read as well.

Congratulations, this is a hard statement to make. It is very polite when someone has gone to the trouble of engaging you in honest discourse to be willing to concede a point. I'm not sure that anyone is trying to blame slavery on God. What they are attempting to show is that Biblical interpretation has changed. The original authors lived in a time when slavery was acceptable. This part of the Bible (not God) may well be condoning slavery however that doesn't mean we have to today.The point is simply that one can not take every bit of the Bible as the final word even in an areas where it may be particularly strong, that is morality.In spite of the support for slavery it is very clear from the overall message of Christ and the NT that slavery has to be taken as wrong. It just took a few centuries for socities to grow up enough to be able to get the real message instead of having their noses buried in the individual words.

But that doesn't matter. In Canada a majority of younger people agree with giving equal rights. In a couple of decades that will be a majority of all of us.I don't know what the US numbers are but they too will change. The rights will come as surely as the blacks moved from the back of the bus. This will be in spite of the "love" of your church just as it was 50 years ago. The Islamic fundamentalist nations will suffer in ignorance. The US has a choice left. We will see which way it goes.This election is only one point in time. It is not the end. I believe that enough Americans are proud, decent and smart people to allow you to catch up to more progressive countries.