Recent content by Ignatius the Kiwi

So we operate on the basis of the no harm principle as Christians? That is a secular liberal moral code? Islamic polygamy doesn't hurt anyone though and can be freely entered into. Why should it be restricted? In fact why should polygamy be restricted at all?

So Aztecs should have had the right to practice their religion? Well I'm not talking about forcing people to believe anything. I would however expect people to conform themselves to Christian societal standards if they were living in a Christian civilisation. This means that if you are a Muslim...

Rights such as what? Gay marriage? Blasphemy? To castrate children? What modern rights would you prefer Christians have protected? And you'll do nothing to protect said 'right.' If it's not actually being followed the Constitution is a dead letter. You should approach politics as they are, not...

I love the New Yorker calling him a Mook ❤️

I kind of think they do have the right to violate rights at least if the justification can be made. There used to be a right to the freedom of association in the USA but that no longer exists and you are not free to associate with whom you want because of the civil rights law in the USA. But...

You put it into words much more effectively than I can. It is a question I notice American Christians or secular Christians have a difficult time answering because they have so bought into the progressive/enlightenment values they were raised with. They recognize the incompatibility of...

No society is completely free with what it allows to influence people. Censorship and restricting ideas form the basis of the education of a society. You for instance might be in favour of the complete removal of religious education from public schools, but a more Christian society would be in...

The only thing Libertarians can do is lose consistently and then be proud that they lost.

Just so we're clear. You would have preferred Paganism dominate the Empire and Christianization not happen?

When you say a piece of paper is the only thing protecting your country from authoritarianism, it kind of sounds like you're treating it as a sacred document. Your condescension aside, the US constitution won't protect you from anything. It won't protect you, for instance, from a government that...

The political constitution is only as good as the people it claims to represent and Americans as a people are very different to the people who wrote the constitution originally. One doesn't have to accept the constitution in their hearts and minds, only as a technical legal requirement...

It would be helpful to examine the concept outside of the American context to one which includes all Christian history. American Christians almost deify the constitution as the third Testament and view it as the true authority to which one cannot contend. Yet even within the American context up...

Let me guess the Republicans you respect, Neocon warmongers like Lindsay Graham and Mitt Romney?

The superficial markers of religion like a holiday or two which has been corrupted into a secular festival hardly speak to the public visibility of religion. If Easter and Christmas had retained their actual Christian meaning they would be just as invisible as any other religious day.

Zero seats, zero seats! Tory Delenda est.