Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Freedom of religion means freedom of religion, Baby-Screams. If the state endorses one, it has to endorse others.

And yes, the state allowing religious symbols on public land is an endorsement of whichever religion it is, regardless of whatever semantics you employ to the contrary.

Atheistic world views are as varied as the people who hold them. There is no such thing as a true and accurate monument to atheism.

All views are as varied as the people who hold them, even among Christians or any other faith. It's almost like people are individuals.

However, "True Scotsman" arguments set aside for a moment, we can focus on a few things that most of us who have rejected the primary religious views of our day/culture, and thus taken up the title of "atheist" as part of our self- and public-descriptive nomenclature, have in common. Likely, we can find therein some few things we can put up as monuments. Remember, a monument need not represent every single possible attribute of a group, nor every individual perspective of individuals within that group; it need only be a symbol of some aspect that is laudable-- an example might be the Statue of Liberty for the USA.

In that respect, I'd say we have a few icons, such as our thinkers and teachers, and the words they spoke, of which we might make statues for placement on the courthouse steps:

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And thus, did all the people say:

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R'Amen.