{"id":28702,"date":"2014-03-25T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28702"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:05:56","slug":"hobby-lobby-the-american-culture-and-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/25\/hobby-lobby-the-american-culture-and-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby, the American Culture, and Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, writing at his Moore to the Point<\/em><\/a>, referencing today’s arguments at the US Supreme Court regarding health care mandates and religious freedom, which he calls “the most important religious liberty case in a generation<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

This case isn\u2019t about politics or culture wars. This case will set the tone for the next hundred years of church\/state jurisprudence in this country. This case will tell us whether we\u2019ve bartered away a birthright paid for with our forebears\u2019 blood…<\/p>\n

Our government has treated free exercise of religion as though it were a tattered house standing in the way of a government construction of a railroad; there to be bought off or plowed out of the way, in the name of progress.<\/p>\n

The government wants us to sing from their hymn book, \u201cOnward, Sexual Revolutionaries,\u201d but we can\u2019t do that.<\/strong> We love and respect our leaders, but when they set themselves up as overlords of the conscience, we must respectfully dissent.<\/p>\n

We cannot accept the theology lesson the government has sought to teach us, that religion is simply a matter of what happens during the scheduled times of our services, and is left there in the foyer during the rest of the week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our religious convictions aren\u2019t reduced to simply the opinions we hide in our hearts, or sing in our hymns. Our religious convictions inform the way we live<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moore’s column is fascinating and not too long — well worth the read.<\/p>\n

Other references at the Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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