John Werth
1 min readApr 10, 2022

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People keep telling me Christians don't want to make all the rules and tell everybody else what to do - but in four decades of following politics, I never meet any. Conservative ones, anyway. I'd have said jamming your nose into everybody else's business and pushing them around would do as a functional definition of them.

I just got told the other day my problem is I want to force my worldview on everyone else and demand they OBEY. Oh, and that I was trying to turn America atheist because I must approve of the way "Atheist countries" had "killed 100 million people."

The spark for this fire was my suggestion that maybe we should actually have actual freedom of religion for everybody, not just Christians, including freedom from it for me. A bridge too far, apparently.

Why is it that asking people who claim they don't want to force me to obey their religion to stop forcing me to obey their religion means they don't get to have their religion? Forcing me to live by it seems awfully integral...

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John Werth
John Werth

Written by John Werth

Musician and conductor, repairer of woodwinds, owner of dogs, band director, lapsed mathematician, and scribbler of thoughts on humor, politics or both at once.

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