Looks like there's not going to be a "separation of foolishness and State". (Psalm 14:1)
Posted on 08/15/2014 10:43:31 AM PDT by fishtank
State-Run New Mexico Museum Scrambled to Cover Up Collaboration with Atheistic Groups
by Casey Luskin
In previous articles this week (here and here) we saw that New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) worked with atheist groups to put on 2014 Darwin Day events that included anti-religious lectures. While the taxpayer-funded and publicly operated museum actively outreached to evolutionary atheist groups to involve them in the events, the partnership excluded participation by groups with other viewpoints, raising serious constitutional questions about freedom of speech and state endorsement of a religious belief, namely atheism. That's bad enough. The situation was made more egregious by a subsequent cover up by the museum, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Looks like there's not going to be a "separation of foolishness and State". (Psalm 14:1)
“a religious belief, namely atheism”
Atheism is no more a religious belief
than watching football is a sport.
Good catch; tx.
Atheism is a religion the same as any other religion.
for legal purposes it is a religion.
a government endorsing that belief over all others is just as much a state religion violation of the first amendment.
Religion = a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
The “superhuman agency” they believe is that matter and life miraculously created themselves. Their devotion is to their dual pagan gods of time and chance. Their moral code is anything opposed to Christianity.
it is their belief. Their belief is a religion and thus is precluded from an endorsement of any government body.
(White is all colors combined, black is the absence of all colors)
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