I would think that the Texas decision shows your argument to be false.
"Secularism" isn't a religion, no matter how you twist it.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
BTW, Roy Moore *was* trying to establish a state religion. He said as much to his followers, that he didn't think other religions weren't valid. We should all be frightened of men in power who push their faith on others.
By your own words you really think you are the one who should be telling us to be frightened and who to be frightened of? Really now, how bold.
Atheism is a belief system just like any religion. Secularism is its outworking.
He wasn't. He was acknowledging a truth about Alabama, its people, and its history that traced back to its founding.
But atheism had been enthroned as the national religion by the Supreme Court, and atheism maintained its monopoly as a result of federal court action.
"I would think that the Texas decision shows your argument to be false. "
Nope, it confirms it ... Breyer only went along with Texas posting the Ten Commandments because it was devoid of the kind of 'endorsement of religion' that the Supremes find offensive. The same way they judge the christmas creche displays.
To oppose any and all Govt endorsement of religion is to enforce secularism. It is the natural consequence of such a strict set of guidelines.
"Secularism" isn't a religion, no matter how you twist it. "
It's a cop out not to see the big picture... ideology, religion, it's the same thing deep down: The State Religion of the USSR was Marxist-Leninism and it was enforced with a conformity that made the Aztecs human sacrifices look tame. Yet their was no God involved. It is a logical error to think that we have less to fear of a State ideology simply because it doesnt have a diety in the belief system.
"BTW, Roy Moore *was* trying to establish a state religion."
NO HE WASN'T. He was trying to put up a monument to priciples and beliefs he revered. He considered, correctly, that the Ten Commandments and the Christian religion were an inherent part of what made America a blessed nation.
If a Judge cannot be albe to express his own beliefs in his own courtroom, then we have lost freedom of expression in this country. I am sorry you are opponent of such free expression.
"He said as much to his followers, that he didn't think other religions weren't valid. "
To be a believer in one religion is to be a non-believer in other religions. that just says he's an honest man.
"We should all be frightened of men in power who push their faith on others."
... and that includes the secularist ideology, the environmental movement, and a number of ideologies that are given free rein in the schools.
But as for this man, there never was any situation or claim that he forced his views or religion on anyone, nor ruled in a way that exhibited religious discrimination. In fact, some of the amici briefs for him were from Rabbis!