Should religion have the right to dictate the law?

No.

As long as the law does not dictate my religion, there should be too much conflict.

Of course, governments can have a tendency to be a little selfish with their loyalty expectations.

   Government coerces people however it was coerced or not.  That's what's special about government.  It establishes laws, not suggestions.

   When people who have no qualifications at all except the the right to vote dictate what government will coerce, it can get ridiculous no matter how much they might know (or not) about religion or science.

   If you are suggesting a solution involves silencing people whose understanding of religion might be flawed despite their infatuation with religion, what will you do about those whose understanding of science is flawed despite their infatuation with science?

Can you provide any examples of religion dictating the law in recent years?

Sure.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Iran

Or more general:
www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-theocratic-governments-today.html

Unsurprisingly, all 7 theocracies mentioned in that article worship the God of Abraham. 6 of 7 are Islamic.

The principles laid down in my religious texts allow for choice.

The campaigns against any number of things involve laws that can be changed by the citizen, so it is not even remotely off that there are people out there who, based on their religious beliefs & principles, cannot support something contrary to it iof the laws of the land allow them the choice to do so. In fact, it's odd to expect people to willingly support things they are against.

I know I wouldn't.

Even godless hordes will often campaign against something on the basis their feelings on it.

Of course you are exaggerating the outrage a bit anyway, but the outrage shouldn't be shocking.

Absolutely NOT!!!!

Basically guide things back to Christianity is always a safe bet in the long term as that's what this country (USA) has generally revolved around for a long time now. but yet some want to abandon what's proven good here for just about anything else besides that. basically it's the godless liberals who turned against God and really started to go off the rails with their support of abortion which is basically murder of a unborn child and once someone crosses that line they just open the door to other immoral things which you can see they are going further and further off the rails as time passes and it's accelerating (but the left see's this as "progress" instead of what it really is which is moral decline). it's likely a matter of time before pedophiles (and other immoral things) are supported by the left because they obviously don't base many of their choices around God and once you put God aside things tend to inevitably decline with enough time.

so pretty much banning stuff like abortion is always a good thing for society outside of a rare occasion like when done to save a mother life. but at this point it's not done to end the babies life but to save the mothers so no wrong is committed unlike a typical abortion which is done solely to end the babies life which is obviously immoral to anyone who's not got a really twisted view of morality (but many on the left are totally blind and can't see right from wrong much anymore).

so basically in cases like abortion etc the law should be clearly against it because it protects life at it's most innocent stage as when the law makes it easier for people to kill their own children, which is what democrats do, that obviously cannot be a good thing. they sugar-coat a evil act by calling it a "choice" when it's really a basically right-to-life issue.

so there should definitely be at least some changes with abortion being the first one I would pretty much stop as it's a major offense against God (i.e. The Holy Trinity (Father/Son(Jesus Christ)/Holy Spirit)).

p.s. but at this point in the time the world is accelerating in it's intolerance of Christianity (along with that those on the right(conservatives) since Christianity is generally more inline with the right) as you can see many on the left oppose it and start acting up.


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Christianity (and more specifically Catholic since it's THE church Jesus Christ started with Peter who's the first pope) is only extreme to a godless liberal because the more left they go (i.e. further moral decline) the more they will start to see Jesus Christ as 'too extreme'.

also, there is nothing outdated about Jesus Christ's unchangeable truths. His moral standards are not determined by majority opinion. the further society ventures away from His moral standards the worse it will become in the long run (but many got to learn the hard way). at the rate the left is going lately, it's probably not going to be a stretch before pedophile stuff ends up being 'not that bad' etc as you can already see some stuff heading in that direction already.

Islam on the other hand is just flat out bad for humanity as they are all about violence etc. Christianity(good) and Islam(evil) are directly opposed. but the left will never acknowledge this truth because many of them opposed the truth of God.