Uprooting believers.

[Golbez]

Of course your motives are political. 'In Government We Trust". I don't believe government is the highest moral authority, so no I will not keep my religion to myself. My religion informs my politics. If you let your politics determine your religion, then your priorities are confused.

Of course they are. I said they were. If they weren't, of course they wouldn't be.

I have found no religion to be a better moral code than what people thousands of years ago could have devised. Thankfully, no one lives quite by those standards anymore.

I let reality determine my religion. That reality is secularism. The reason we can't advance on unambigous moral areas like protecting the planet, helping the sick, and providing equality to all is because half of the masses and the representatives they elect determine their moral code from bronze age barbarism. Not that it's unexpected. Ignorance is always in opposition to progress. I just hope the trend set by the industrial age, the enlightenment, and the information age will continue to beat back bad ideas.