Posted on 11/24/2005 1:47:03 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
Sounds like that guy has waaay too much time on his hands....oh wait, he's a prisoner.
So the 7th Circuit Court decision will mean that places where atheists gather will be tax exempt, because it is "a religion"? That will be the next step.
Stupidity has no bounds!
Geee, you can take one's life, property or liberty but you can't prevent them from forming a prayer group? Something awfully screwy about this line of logic.
And that's correct. Atheism is the absence in a belief in a supreme being.
But you don't need a supreme being to have a group that is religious in nature.
Why do you think you need a supreme being to have a religion?
That's oK. It doesn't matter because Evolution is only a Theory, it's not a Law.
I should post this outstanding treatise on the Fourteenth Amendment to FR. It is a real eye opener and full of valuable facts most do not know.
Evolution is un-constitutional? What's next? Newton's laws? Gravity? Thermodynamics? I think the "secular humanists" believe in those also...
It takes an Atheist to build a prison population.
Now there is an opportunity for a best seller.
Go figure.
I think we're missing his point:
"Because non-religion is now a religion, the Establishment Clause of the Constitution now requires all court houses in the United States to publicly display a copy of the Ten Commandments. When religion was defined simply as a belief in God, it was unconstitutional to display religious monuments anywhere near court houses. However, the absence of God has also become a religion. At best, the amount of space in court houses filled by religious paraphernalia will have to be equal to the amount of space without any religious things."
Evolution must be a religion because I see those fish with feet and Darwin written inside the fish on cars all the time.
I do not believe eating unbleached peanut husks will grant eternal life. According to this reasoning, that's a religion?
"Best of all, public schools are now unconstitutional. Vouchers, they told us, were wrong because, even though they worked, the government wasn't allowed to pay Christians for educating anyone. The government could only support liberal atheists. But because liberal atheism is now a religious establishment, their government-enforced monopoly over the nation's children can no longer be defined as Constitutional. (That's the fifth or sixth reason public education is unconstitutional, anyway. Maybe when we get to ten, it'll be enough to do something about it.)"
Wouldn't you agree?
First, religious believers would try to say the atheism was a belief system itself and atheists would say, no it's not, it's the ABSENCE of belief. But here, thanks to these, courts ruling, everyone's arguing visa versa! So which is it, everybody?? Stop basing your reasoning happens to support your contention at this particular moment. Is atheism a belief or the absence of belief? Both sides should pick one and stick to it.
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