Pardon me for being so blunt but I'm afraid this is very simple stuff and yet you are not following. I don't care if you worship the feathered serpent Quetzaquatl on the steps of your stone pyramid each morning before leaving for work. What I do care about is the Bill of Rights. See the very first thing it says? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Well, forcing school children to listen to their teachers in public school tell them that we are one nation, under God, would be to respect the establishment of religion. God = Religion. See how simple this is?
Look: The left doesn't like the Second Amendment and they want us to make believe it isn't there. You don't like the First Amendment and you want us to make believe it isn't there. Me? I'm an American and I wish you weren't here.
Absolutely false. I am one of the most irreligious people here on FR, and I'm an admitted libertine to boot. Yet I completely believe in God. I am positive God exists.Religion is a system of interpreting God, often corrupted by man's fallibility. It's like saying justice = law.
Simpler still would be to look up the word respecting in the dictionary before putting your own spin on the meaning of the First Amendment.
Try again, doc. Laws do not "respect" things in the sense you tried to imply above; though they might "concern" things. (and that's the only hint you get).
If people are going to wave the First Amendment around, I do wish they'd really read the thing first.