No, it didn't. It ruled that non-belief gets the same treatment under the 1st Amendment as belief in a particular religion. That is, government can't discriminate against non-believers any more than it can discriminate against Baptists.
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A state of non-belief is impossible.
**ALL** sentient human beings have a religious worldview. Why? Answered: The existence of God can not be proved. Therefore...any belief about God's existence or non-existence is based purely and solely on **faith**!
A person can **believe** that there is no god. His religious faith and belief is therefore atheism.
A person **believes* that it is possible to have a God, and he also **believes** it is possible not to have God. His religious faith and belief is agnosticism.
A person can believe their is a God. His religious faith and belief is God-centered.
Government schools **grossly** discriminate against those who believe in God!
I see you missed post #298. Here it is again:
Post #298:
Schools can only teach from two philosophical positions:
Godless or God-centered. Of course, there are subsets to these worldviews.
But...Music for instance can be religious or secular. Secular music can promote religion, be neutral to it, or be detrimental religious belief.
Ah!...But...Schools are either one or the other. They either promote and establish a child's religion or they are hostile to it. There is no middle ground.
A godless school does not pray to God daily or hourly, or before test, or when there is an accident. A school must make a decision. It has daily or hourly prayer to that child's specific God or it doesn't. The is no middle ground here.
A godless school does not refer to the child's religious teachings of his specific God to uphold or refute an argument.
A godless school does not read from the child's scriptures on a daily basis or use the child's scriptures to clarify a moral or ethical point.
In a godless school, the teacher will very likely **never** refer to the historical events in a child's religion to strengthen the moral and ethical values of a lesson.
Godless schools do not allow the child to freely refer to his religious beliefs or read from his religious scriptures as he wishes in class or even for most of the day.
A godless school does not allow the child to freely promote or discuss his religion, or freely hand out religious written material with other classmates.
A godless school will assign the child to work and play with children whose beliefs are hostile to the child's worldview, and allow those with hostile religious beliefs to undermine his family's religious traditions.
A godless school will schedule events such as theater, sporting competitions, and dances on days that the child considers holy: Sunday, Friday evening, and Saturday, and religious festivals.
A godless school will tempt even the youngest children with delicious looking and smelling foods that are proscribed by the child's religion: Coffee, caffeine, unKosher foods, pork, milk and meat together. A godless school will allow children to tempt each other with these foods.
A godless school will allow other children to wear highly fashionable outfits and allow them to tempt the religious child with clothing that will cause him to drift from his religion.
Will all godless schools do all of the above. All godless schools share a number of key items of the above that define them as godless. The other points may or may not be consistently shared by all godless schools.
All of the above teaches the child that his prayer, scriptures, holidays, foods, traditions, and customs are irrelevant to getting along in the world and unnecessary in evaluating anything or everything in his cultural environment. This is NOT a religiously neutral lesson.
God centered schools (that conform the religious subset of the child) will do none of the above. These schools are extensions of the religious teachings found at home.
This is why there must be complete separation of school and state. No matter what government does it will establish the religious worldview of some ( godless or God-centered) and destroy that of others.
Government schools are a freedom of conscience and First Amendment **nightmare**!!! This case of UC and the Christian school is merely one of **thousands** of similar conflicts.
We must begin the process of privatizing education in the U.S.
On the K-12 level children are under police threat to attend these godless government indoctrination centers.