Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "If We Lose John Locke, We Lose America | 5 Minute Video" video.

John Locke was an Enlightenment thinker. For those of you who don't know, the Enlightenment was a period of rebellion against the Catholic church in favor of reaching conclusions and policy based on science and reason. So all of you clutching your Bible and using it to justify every single political position you hold, what you are really doing is going AGAINST everything John Locke and his posthumous student Thomas Jefferson espoused. Keep that in mind next time you say you side with the positions of the Founding Fathers (who were Deists, NOT Christians); they believed in reaching decisions based on the human ability to reason and learn about our universe, NOT faith.
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@JesusFriedChrist Thank you for your response. You are absolutely right, and it's ironic you feel that way considering your name. I'll repeat: I do NOT have anything against religion. Not one little thing. If someone wants to sacrifice lambs in their backyard, that's THEIR business. But I hate it when people try to force their beliefs onto others. Unfortunately, that's what the modern conservative movement has become. The entirety of the Republican Party is devoted to spreading and cherishing "Judeo-Christian values" which I don't agree with AT ALL. I guess that's why I'll always be a Libertarian.
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@jonnyw82 It's much the same thing. America was founded on Enlightenment values, which were secular. God was only a passive figure to the Founding Fathers.
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@Bigfoottehchipmunk You missed my point. It's irrelevant what the Catholic Church is like today, what mattered was what kind of influence it had at the time of the Enlightenment. And at that time (17th and 18th centuries) it was the dominating force in all of Europe. The Pope was one of the most powerful people in the world. Kings and emperors were coronated by him (including Napoleon Bonaparte). That is a TREMENDOUS amount of power. And they used it to exert control: What the Church said, people did. Whether or not it lined up perfectly with Christian doctrine is up for debate. But that's beside the point; I see the same thing occurring in the modern conservative movement (Republican party). They want to make God's law THE law, regardless of whether people choose to believe in it or not. Because let's face facts: God's existence is uncertain. That's why belief in Him is called FAITH. Why then, should we force all of America to obey Him? It makes no sense. Only law founded on reason and science can last. Not everyone will do something because a several-thousand-year-old book tells them to do it. The Founding Fathers took note of this, and they intentionally created separation of church and state. The modern Republican party wants to abolish that precedent in favor of a theocratic-like government. And I refuse to politely stand by and watch as our freedom is taken away bit by bit because some guy scribbled something on a piece of parchment thousands of years before the US even came into existence.
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@peterc9153 It doesn't matter what the Bible says, what Jesus said, or anyone else associated with the Christian religion. What matters is that we design law according to reason and science, and account for freedom as much as possible. Don't try telling me that the US is founded on Christian ideals; as a matter of fact, Thomas Jefferson once wrote that, "Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of common law." John Adams, his political opponent, said exactly the same thing: "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." (Treaty of Tripoli, 1796)
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@Bigfoottehchipmunk It was all of the above. Atheism is its own religion of sorts. It too is protected under religious liberty. To avoid one religion gaining too much power in the government, the government itself needs to be secular. This was the whole point of the Enlightenment, which established the ideals upon which the US Constitution is written.
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@Bigfoottehchipmunk Yup. Because objective morality is real if we humans are able to reason and, using science, work together to create solutions. God should be contained to the individual and the church.
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