Tongue-Tied has two posts that really makes me wonder about our direction. A fellow is fired for sending email Christmas greetings reminding the recipients to keep "Christ in Christmas". The only thing I can think of is that he used a public computer for "personal" email. Do they terminate everyone who does this? I can't decide whether the all out assault on Christianity is more appalling than the fact that we seem to take it. Do we terminate everyone who expresses any religious belief, or do we just terminate certain people who express certain religious beliefs? Seems we attack the latter. I strongly believe in the right to express your beliefs and convictions. I also believe in a certain amount of courtesy in allowing others to express their beliefs. Does tolerance of other beliefs allow some fanatical theoracy to take hold? I doubt it. If we had a theoracy of any kind attempt to take over, I'd be one of the first at the barricades with the molotov's. Maybe it's time. The theocracy that is seeking absolute dominion is secularism, which has a jealous god that will have no other gods before it.
And we have the story about a convicted rapist and murderer getting out of the death penalty for folks on the jury referring to the Bible. The Christmas email is astounding. According to news, none of the jury said that they were influenced by "an eye for an eye." Guess those evil folks who read the Bible should have known that they can't do something as terrible as that to a poor, innocent rapist and murderer. In today' world, even though the juror's swore to uphold their duties on the Bible (unless they had some convictions to the contrary), it's dumb to bring in the Bible as a reference. They may bring in almost anything else, but not the Bible. They should have known.
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