[Eric Blair 2084]

I'm not coming down off the mountain with the tablets here...but there is a reason why over the last 5,000 years and most recently in China and the old USSR, central planning and BIG GUBMINT has been the enemy of religious freedom. Statists want you to worship the STATE as God. They don't want any competition.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"..there is a reason why over the last 5,000 years and most recently in China and the old USSR, central planning and BIG GUBMINT has been the enemy of religious freedom. Statists want you to worship the STATE as God. They don't want any competition.

Thank you for stating (no pun intended) the bottom line. Please post an occasional reminder to us of what is really happening with this issue.

[Joe Brower]

"Statists want you to worship the STATE as God. They don't want any competition."

Bingo. Everyone worships something... EVERYONE. All these 'secularists' are actually in love with either Leviatham, nature (or the worst of the three) humankind, be it themselves or some psuedo-messiah like Obama.

All of these cold-blooded mandates from an ever-more overbearing and intrusive centralized bureaucracy are, at their heart, a simple case of 'My God is bigger than your God."