Missouri Proposes Naming Christianity as State Religion

Missouri legislators are considering a resolution to officially name Christianity as the state's "majority" religion.

The resolution would recognize "a Christian god," and it would not protect minority religions, but "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs."

The resolution also recognizes that, "a greater power exists," and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, "justified recognition."

(h/t: Dr. B)

Putting aside any church-state objections for the moment, why are so many Christians fixated on cultural domination rather than spreading the gospel? Or to look at it another way, does this resolution glorify God in any way or does it rather glorify political power? What about this resolution could possibly be pleasing to God?

(Also read this interesting article on evangelicals' historical support for separation of church and state.)

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Whatever happened to freedom of religion and spreading the gospel, rather than trying to indoctrinate those who are not Christian who may live in Missouri as students?




But isn't Freedom to "spread the gospel" and express one's religion explicitly freedom to persuade (convert!) others to your view of reality? That's got nothing to do with this legislation, of course, but the idea of trying to convert people should not be in question.

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