but I will concede I believe the standard for issuing the death penalty should be beyond a "shadow" of a doubt and not just "reasonable" doubt. It's not like you can "unkill" someone if it turns out later that he didn't do it.
So after Trump this is the GOP second choice for the general election?
I wonder if they really want to win or just force their views on the rest of us.
but how many Americans would support a practicing Muslim for POTUS?
I certainly would not.
I certainly would not.
Christians may do annoying things like knock on your door to try and convert you, and try to encourage laws that comport with their believes. But who doesn't do the second
On the other hands, they don't cut people's heads of by the dozens, burn people alive in cages, bomb subways, cafes, churches, mosques, subject women to sexual slavery, fly planes into buildings, bomb Madrid or London, shoot up Paris, destroy world heritage sites, hijack cruise ships and kill passengers, shoot up the Olympic Games, amputate people's hands for stealing, stone people to death whip people with 1,000 lashes.
Likewise, there may be 40 Christians in the U.S. in the Nut Case Church (forgot his name), that are assholes at funerals, but that doesn't rank with the huge percet of Moslem polled in France that support the Charlie Hebdod shooting, the thousands of Moslems who named their kid after Ossama.
This is just the start. And you don't like one much more than the other.
I have not only voted for Christians, but I have voted for downright "thumpers"
In "theory" I don't like Christians any more than I like Muslims, but in practice I can co exist with Christians, living under Sharia law would have one of two endings, me killing them or them killing me. I really don't see any middle ground.
...co-exist with Christians but can't live under Sharia law. But what would happen if you had to live under Christian law - no drinking, no gambling, no whoring? Wouldn't that have the same ending as Sharia law - you killing them or them killing you?
There is no place where Christians impose their law like Muslims do now. Nor has there been for about 800 years. Yes, we can imagine "what if......"
But the reality is.....
Maybe there are some blue laws, but no escorts have been stoned to death in Christian country for about 2000 years. Christians are not kidnapping Muslim girls for sex slaves.
When drinking was illegal (and where it is restricted) there are no religious leaders walking the streets with whips.
The list goes on and on in comparison
Finally, there are also secular reasons to limit or prohibit your list.
"...no place where Christians impose their law like Muslims do now? Nor has there been for about 800 years."
You better take a break from your "lawyering" and CLE courses and find out who Warren Jeffs is.
The FLDS Church imposes their version of Sharia law right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. The law of the Church rules American cities such as Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, AZ. Your impotent D.A.s have put Jeffs in prison but he is still running the Church.
Tonight on CNN, there's a show about Jeffs and the FLDS Church. It's part of the series "This is Life with Lisa Ling." If you watch it, I'll give you Continuing TER Education credit. Lord knows you need it.
Without you looney liberals this country would lean further right and the Kim Davis' of the country would be much more likely to be ramming their religion down our throats.
I don't want the libs in charge, but I do believe you are necessary to keep the religious zealots in this country in check.
On balance though, the Christians are easier to co exist with than the Muslims. It might not be out of choice, as I have no delusions that many Christians would love to have this country run by the "Law of God", but that is not the mainstream in this country. When I look at life in such shitholes as Iran, Saudi Arabia or Yemen, I have to say co existing with Christians is 1,000 times more preferable.
Oh to answer your question, "IF" the Christians were to take over and tried to force me to live under the Christian version of Sharia law, YES I would fight them to my dying breath as well. Fortunately, that kind of extreme seems quite unlikely in the good old US of A.
It's funny the left only seems to have the "courage" to stand up to Christianity and the right only has the "desire" to stand up to Islam, surely there are people out there that see the danger of both, or can't we agree that fruitcakes willing to kill or die over a fairy tale are the biggest danger we face, regardless of which fairy tale they believe in?