(March 14, 2013 at 8:38 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote:(March 13, 2013 at 11:52 pm)jstrodel Wrote: No I think it is fine to have humanist charities but they should do it with their own money just like Christians do, they can get 501C3 like Christians can (and they do). Having a charity is different from using the government to force your ideology on other people through funding certain programs and disadvantaging others.
If you can't see that state funded programs are different from private charities, you are blind.
That said, I think some government programs and subsidies are important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent...enate_Bill
Huh. Whaddya know. A Christian senator trying to use public educational institutions to force his ideology on others...
Your turn. An example of this rampant authoritarian totalitarian nazi fascist commie liberal agenda Stalinist Maoist Marxist Axis of Evil Gay Agenda Secular humanism you claim to exist, please?
I gave plenty of examples. But a counterpoint to that example, is that 80% of the public is Christian, and they pay for the public education system, which is secular. They are forced to pay, they do not have a choice. If they want to send their kids to a private school, they still have to pay the same amount of taxes.
So you have one person that wants to consider intelligent design in schools and another person that wants to tax people at very high rates to create a secular culture and force people to accept the secular nationalistic ideology of the school system.
For a more extreme example, look at the school system in the 1/5th of the world that is Communist.
