To: Conservative Me
Precisely the point. An atheist HAS a belief system. They believe there is no God. When an atheist goes to court and asks for the ten commandments to be removed from a court house in order to promote religious freedom, its disingenuous. He is asking for the state to adopt his religious worldview, that there is no God, and any acknoledgement by the government that there may be a God is and infringement on the atheists religious freedom.
On the contrary - every time we censor a prayer, every time we take down a religious historic monument, we give up both our religious and our free speech rights, and we acknowledge atheism - a world without God - as our national religion. We endorse it explicitly.
To: RinaseaofDs
Not true. When an atheist asks for the Ten Commandments to be removed, he/she is asking that the state acknowledge that not everyone finds their moral code from the Bible, and that the state acknowledge that not everyone believes that our laws stem from the Biblical Ten Commandments.
To: RinaseaofDs
When an atheist goes to court and asks for the ten commandments to be removed from a court house in order to promote religious freedom, its disingenuous.A true atheist would never take something so trivial to court because to them the ten commendments have no more meaning than some obscure African fertility ritual or writings about myghical Greek gods or rabbits who hide colored eggs.
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10/06/2003 6:58:35 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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