(January 19, 2013 at 3:40 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: I'm not sure what freedom of speech has to do with simply lacking a belief in god(s). That's the only "atheistic mindset". Also, not to be nit-picky, I hate the phrase "atheist side". Most of us don't, I don't think, like the idea of a battle against the religious (unless they come to our territory *rawr*). Logical reasoning is often our basis, but I don't think most of us want to have wars over it, as long as our rights don't get trampled on.
The fact is that the First Amendment is intolerant of religious intolerance. People often overlook that aspect of the law. It makes illegal such claims as, for example, some Muslims assert that anyone who leaves Islam should be killed. This could only occur if the people who drafted the laws in the US, like the First Amendment, did not believe in any such nonsense. So, it is a rejection of religious superstitioun, i.e., atheism, that gives the First Amendment its character.
