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If the laws of a religion other than yours became law of the land, would you support or oppose?

My last question was if the laws of your religion became law of the land. 2/3 would like to see their religious laws became law of their nation. Now put the shoe on the other foot. How would you feel if a religion different from your own made all the rules that you must obey?

Update:

Not at all Zorro. This is to all religions, so pretty much, you are looking at changes in social services, crime and punishment, government offices, leadership, military, the whole nine yards of any faith other than yours. You are not looking at required worship unless it is a law of the faith that rules.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Oppose.

    Religions that culminate in a power head will obviously clash with any other power. Therefore a thorough State cannot co-exist with a powerful religion. Thence the two should not mix.

    It does not matter if it's your own religion or somebody else's, whether its violent or peaceful.

    Even in a benign peaceful religion, if a man cannot stand up to question authorities then he is not a man. Questioning or divergence in most religions is considered evil, so instating them as law-giver of the land would definitely impact freedom.

    We do need laws to control too much of such freedom, however an unbiased State is the best bet so that all religions can be catered for.

  • 1 decade ago

    No matter whose religion becomes the law of the land (it's atheism right now in America,) my first allegiance is to God, and I'm not obligated to obey any secular authorities that tell me to disobey or denounce Our Blessed Lord.

    I suspect that if the religion was something like protestantism (which was in charge of our nation for a while,) it wouldn't be so bad, but if it's Islam or if the climate of atheism gets any thicker, we could be facing serious religious persecution in the future. Even that doesn't change the decisions I have to make, though.

    As it says in the acts of the apostles, we must obey God, rather than men.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1) If the laws of a religion other than yours became law of the land, would you support or oppose?

    Depends on the law, of course. I've known someone who lived in Malaysia but who was not Muslim (he was Buddhist, I believe). He was very...displeased with the situation there, because there were very many legal restrictions there that are based strictly on Islam under which he did not enjoy having to live. Not all people have such problems with such restrictions; I might live quite happily under a Muslim government IF I was permitted to follow my own religion (Christianity) to its fullest at the same time. For example: I would miss beer, but I would not be upset by it no longer being available. On the other hand, I *would* be upset if I were not permitted to attend church or to own a Bible.

    Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

  • 1 decade ago

    As a Christian the Bible tells me to obey the laws of the land unless the law tells me to commit sin and break God's laws.

    Therefore, I would obey laws from another religion but if I was in a democracy and the laws seemed unjust I would do what I could to see them overturned.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would oppose any Religion being allowed to choose the Law of the Land. Religion was created by Desperate people who wanted a answer to their Creation so they created Religion.

  • 1 decade ago

    Most of us already do support the law, even though it doesn't go along with what I believe. Depends on the law. Sometimes you have to reject a law no matter who thinks it up. Then you take your chances with the people who made the law.

  • sutor
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    4 years ago

    no count form form whose faith will become the regulation of the land (it is atheism at cutting-edge in u . s . of u.s.,) my first allegiance is to God, and that i'm now no longer obligated to obey any secular government that tell me to disobey or denounce Our Blessed Lord. i think of that if the religion replaced into something like protestantism (which replaced into in value of our u . s . a . for a protracted term,) it does not be so undesirable, yet while it is Islam or if the climate of atheism gets any thicker, shall we be managing extreme non secular persecution contained interior the destiny. Even that doesn't replace the techniques I rather might desire to make, inspite of the reality that. by way of fact it says contained interior the acts of the apostles, we'd desire to obey God, extremely than adult adult males.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A religion different than atheism ? Gosh...anyway, this question is, I'm guessing, about Islam. I don't want to live under sharia law. I don't want gays to be slaughtered in the streets. I don't want women being raped and stoned to death. I don't want 9 year olds to have to marry old perverts. Liberals seem to think that this isn't something they should worry about. What does that sound like to me ? A comforting faith based on unexamined assumptions.

  • 1 decade ago

    Guys, fireball lied. She said she's going to bed. She's going to hell.

    It depends on the laws. Right now a different religious law does cover this land and I despise it. Try to work with some of it, but still want more than one wife and to be able to grow coca and cannibis.

  • 1 decade ago

    no the government should not make the laws of the land from a religion

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