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: Conservative Me
Actually, that's fact, not conjecture or religious dogma, but that's not the point you are arguing is it?
When an atheist wants "In God We Trust" taken off of the currency, is that what the atheist is looking for - an acknowledgement by the state that the law came from somewhere other than the Ten Commandments?
No. Read some history and you'll find that people came to the US to practice their religions as they saw fit. Do you know how Maryland got its name?
The first amendment was written to prevent a Church of the US, not to keep politicians from saying, "With God's help, I was elected your senator."
You fail to address the central point of my post, which is that atheism is a religion. It's its own belief system. It's adherents believe there is no God. It's not that they are not sure if there is a God, they would be agnostic.
Any effort by atheists to expunge God from history, from politics, from the practice of Government, and any effort for that matter to exclude expressions of Judaism, or Hiduism, or any other manifestation of a belief in a supreme beign is the promotion of atheism.
I'm just asking guys like you to be honest. If you want God wiped from the US, its because of proselytizing your beliefs, and not some altruistic defense of my freedoms.
Maybe intellectual dishonesty is a tenant of your belief system?
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