(August 29, 2010 at 9:21 am)AngryBiker Wrote: I'm all for secularism. I don't see our govt. 'forcing' religion anywhere. With all due respect, it seems to me that you guys are swattin' butterflies.
Lets put the shoe on the other foot then: Every day your child has to go to school to recite this: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under Allah, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Would you be OK with that?
You can replace "Allah" with "Yahweh," "Christ," "Buddha," "L. Ron Hubbard" or "no god." All of these alternatives are a violation of separation of church and state, including "no god." That's the whole point of secularism (which, incidentally, is not synonymous with atheism): the state cannot invoke any religion, nor can it prohibit citizens (as citizens) from holding and practicing their own personal religious belief (or lack thereof). It is a two-edged sword. Secularism simply means the government must butt out.
Where the government fails to do so, it should be challenged. And atheists are not the only ones that do this.
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran
