LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY roseross)

I've found this community to be interesting for quite awhile now but it seems to me it is taking a different turn lately. I realize that many members here despise religion of all kinds but this group didn't used to be about that. Its members are an eclectic group coming from all faiths and none to discuss Dominionist Christianity and its encroachments on the separation of Church and State. As such, it draws many people together, despite the wide variety of spiritual beliefs held among them.

If I may quote the info for the community:

"Dark Christianity is a place for the exploration and discussion of the right-wing theocratic elements of the Christian faith, and how these religious supremacists are actively eroding the foundations of the separation of church and state in the US. Its major focus is on Dominionist Theocracy (also known as Christian Reconstructionalism) and its many variants. This is not a flame or bash board- it is meant to explore, inform, and educate people about this often stealthy and deceptive fringe of the Christian faith."

Unless this has changed, bashing people for having faith in God or being members of a religion would be inappropriate, just as it would be inappropriate to deride folks for being humanists. I guess I'm getting tired of the "Religion is the root of all the evil that has ever existed" theme that seems to be popular at the moment.

Of course you are free to believe that but I would suggest that this community is not the place to vent your desire to end religion in its entirety, since this is a meeting place for people who value freedom of spiritual belief. Ending religion is counter to the idea of individual freedom and is little different than the Dominionists' desire to force us all to adhere to their idea of "spiritually correct." Humanity was never meant to be homogenous.

Don't become the thing you despise. It is surprisingly easy to do.

(OTOH, communities do evolve according to need. So if this is now going to be about why all religion is evil, then so be it. I'd just like to know because that doesn't interest me in the way that keeping State and Church separate does.)