The Federal government has no business using taxpayer dollars to spread organized religion around the world.
Cobourg Atheist lists 25 countries with limited or no freedom of religion.
Cobourg says, “It’s fairly clear that Muslim countries are the most common offender – in fact I don’t think any Muslim country is missing from the list!”
Two of those 25 countries, China and India, have about a third of the world’s population. Islam holds another 1.6 billion bringing the total to more than half.
With Russia on the list, more than half the world’s population is being pressured by a very small minority in the US that has decided it knows what’s best for the globe.
It doesn’t help that almost 80% of the US population are Christians. That makes this issue appear suspicious.
However, it is only a small segment of those Christians that are responsible for what it happening and they are ignoring the history and cultures of the countries on Cobourg’s list.
Only in a nation with the “hidden” Soul of a Church could this happen.
What is happening in the US has happened before and is mentioned in the embedded video where you will discover that much of Islam was spread by war. Study the Timeline of Islam to see how many wars were fought that spread the Islamic religion.
It appears that the United States has decided to travel the same path.
Since 1998, the U.S. Department of State has had an Office of International Religious Freedom with the mission of promoting religious freedom as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy. This office releases a report each year on the global state of religious freedom with information on every country on the globe.
In 1998, the US passed legislation titled the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (H.R. 2431) and an amendment in 1999 (Public Law 106-55).
Nations so designated are subject to further actions by the United States including economic sanctions.
Could the clause “subject to further actions” have been the real reason behind the Bush administration manufacturing false evidence to launch a war in Iraq — not to build a democratic nation but to introduce a strong Christian influence in the Middle East?
In Part 3, we will see why it is illegal for the US government to use taxpayer money to support or otherwise involve itself in any religion.
Return to Separation of Church and State – Part 1
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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