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Adventistische Schriften über: "Who will demand the Sunday Law? The state or the people?"
Answer
The Sunday Law is primarily demanded by religious organizations and the Christian masses, who pressure the state to legally enforce their religious ideas. While the state ultimately passes and implements the laws, the decisive impetus comes from the people and the churches, who demand national recognition of the sanctification of Sunday. Without the support of public opinion and the pressure of religious associations, state officials would generally not enforce such laws.
The driving force behind Sunday legislation
How much longer will it take until the Christian masses of this country can be roused to pass a law that forces their civil servants to respect the Sabbath?
It appears that the overwhelming majority of the American people not only support the Sunday Law, but actually regard this day as a day of rest.
As for the enforcement of the law, it will fall to those who advocate for its introduction; for certainly those who do not want it will not enforce it, and the officials of the law are not inclined to enforce laws that are not supported by public opinion.
Senator Blair. — It may satisfy the churches or not. The churches give here their reasons ... for this Sunday legislation in all states. The state, the whole people, makes the law. They say that the whole people should not make a good law just because the churches demand it.
In the discussion of the question in Congress it was treated as a religious issue and nothing else; and this happened because the churches demanded it.
By what right does this great union then demand state and national laws that force people to observe Sunday as an obligation to God, for which there is no command from God?
- Religious demands Sunday Law
- Role of churches in legislation
- Public opinion and Sunday rest
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