You are largely right, Snowguy, and that's unfortunate. We have become too 'comfortable' in our relatively persecution-free American lifestyle. This comfort gives us the tendency to relax and let our guard down and relax our morals. I heard a sermon about a year ago from my cousin that America's blessings have become our cursings. We are so blessed in this nation to be able to worship the way you choose without the government cracking down on raiding your homes or places of worship that we have relaxed our morals and are rejecting large parts of the Word of God and allowing heresy and immorality to infiltrate the church. The church should change the world, but we in America have allowed the world to change the church. It is utterly shameful. We, as American Christians, need to realize that there could very easily come a point that we will no longer be allowed to worship as freely as we once were. In fact, it's already started by some groups saying that if you preach against homosexuality from the pulpit, they want you charged with a hate crime. It is sad, really, really sad.
So, just so I understand you correctly: Freedom of religion is causing the nation to lose freedom of religion, so we should have less freedom of religion so that we can have more? George Orwell, meet Oklahoma.
