Changing the nations foundations

[Damien Nightbane]

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I disagree. The first amendment does require religious neutrality on the part of the governemnt but that does not mean atheism. It means that the governemnt will neither support nor hinder religion. The government must offer no opinion one way or another on religion. That is not what I would describe as an atheist position.

Atheism does not try to hinder or prevent free excersize of religion. It mearly does not recognise the deities as existant. If a religion can't survive without government support, it has too many problems to be a viable religion.

 

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Atheism does not try to hinder or prevent free excersize of religion. It mearly does not recognise the deities as existant. If a religion can't survive without government support, it has too many problems to be a viable religion.

It's not the job of the government to recognize or not recognize a deity. It's the job of the governenment to avoid the subject. We no more want a government that denies that a god exists than one that claims that a god does exist. The governenemnt should not even be addressing the question.