Should the US become a Christian Nation?

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Equal dignity here means having to accept as good homosexual acts and same sex marriage. The law shouldn’t reflect that because those are grave sins and injustices.
 
It is apparent that you and I read the law differently. Really stepping out of this discourse for now. Thank you for your time.
 
Please see comment #78, I believe…that is what i was refering to.
 
Yes, since all individuals and societies are bound to obey Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords, and it is specifically the job of us lay people to make it so (primarily through evangelization and how we exercise any power we might have, such as our vote).

From the CCC:
898 "By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God’s will. . . . It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow according to Christ and maybe to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer."431

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church:
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From Vatican II:

Decree on Laity
  1. The apostolate in the social milieu, that is, the effort to infuse a Christian spirit into the mentality, customs, laws, and structures of the community in which one lives, is so much the duty and responsibility of the laity that it can never be performed properly by others.
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Pastoral Constitution
Laymen should also know that it is generally the function of their well-formed Christian conscience to see that the divine law is inscribed in the life of the earthly city;
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Catholics and Protestants will never agree on Christianity. So, how can it become a Christian nation if it is divided?
 
And I do not see where homosexuality is imposed on Americans. Saying that it is illegal to discriminate against someone, stating that each person has inherent dignity under the law, is not what I would call an “imposition”. It is clear others see it differently.
 
Bon_Croix said:
Catholics and Protestants will never agree on Christianity. So, how can it become a Christian nation if it is divided?
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Catholics and Catholics will never agree on Catholicism. There are vast rifts within the faithful as to their understanding of what Catholicism is, and should be. In the last few days, on this forum alone, we have had several “Catholics” anathemize Pope Francis over the death penalty issue.

We’ve already self-sorted into different camps and are spinning further apart by the day. Reconciliation is not going to occur, and there will be an eventual formal parting of ways.
 
Our beliefs about homosexual acts are based on our faith and religious beliefs. To impose that on others would not be aligned with our legislative process that tries to “respect” all views. So for our pluralistic society we elect representatives to legislate. What you seem to be saying here is that our current process does not reflect Christian values. That is true. In some cases it does not. But we are not a Christian nation. We are a multi religious and non religious nation.
 
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But we are not a Christian nation. We are a multi religious and non religious nation.
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And I thank God for that every day. Different Christians have radically different ideas of what Christian values are and what a Christian nation should be. Even different Catholics have wildly different ideas.

We Catholics, for example, did not have it so well when the Protestant majority dictated those values and burned down a Catholic convent with the nuns sleeping inside in Massachusetts:

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

And they did it in the name of God. To be fair, there were plenty of atrocities over the ages on both sides, but that doesn’t justify anything.
 
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Actually the same beliefs are held by non Christians and even atheists. Our legislative process, like all, forces a view on people. The more laws the more views are forced on people. I live in country where the view that certain light bulbs are immoral is forced on me. So I have no problem forcing a much more important view on people.

There is no such thing as a multi religious society. Different groups can get along better or worse, but each group is trying to become the dominant group.
 
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Thank you Logan. I’m not sure who’s worse the teenagers in some of the question answer forums I’ve read (not Catholic forums) or some of these older folks. Everything you say is taken out of context and they ignore anything in your original post that doesn’t fit their take on you. God Bless you!
 
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First of all it’s 2018.

Second, I don’t have all the answers, just a thought that most laws would be regulated by Christian thought. But I get it, right now in the USA the Constitution is God and the fore fathers are the apostles, therefore we have the Satanists and muslims and other non-Christian groups using our own laws against us to take over. It’s nice that Dearborn MI now has some judges who rule by Sharia Law. In the US military all crosses are removed from chapels (although we do have chaplains). Glad to be inclusive?

Thank you for your (name removed by moderator)ut on a topic you don’t find useful. God keep you, too.
 
Depends on whose definition of Christian… Yours?
Mine? John F. Kennedy? Jimmy Carter? Aimee Semple McPherson? Mister Rogers? Norman Vincent Peale? Gene Robinson. How about Franklin Graham? … Or Donald Trump? … Let’s leave it alone. Keep church and state separate.
 
Forgive me if I already posted to this thread but in my honest opinion I’m going to say no. The first amendment already provides freedom of religion as well as the fact that this country is so diverse in religious views that in my opinion wouldn’t be fair to favor one over another. Another thing is that when ever I hear of somebody referring tot eh us as being a christian nation and such, I always think they’re referring to protestant views.
 
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