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One of the interviewees, I believe it was Margaret Atwood, on Bill Moyers' Faith and Reason program posited that she was an agnostic because she didn't believe in God or religion. Bill said, "You mean you're an atheist." She answered, "No. An atheist believes in a dogma--there is no God." Being dogmatic is what defines religion. Therefore, atheism is a religion.
If she is correct in her definition of religion, then the atheists who have been at the forefront of taking prayer out of schools, the Ten Commandments out of courthouses, and nativity scenes and menorahs off public property are furthering a religious agenda rather than separating church and state.
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There was a court decision some time back which concluded that atheism is a religion. Atheists wanted to have a regular meeting in jail. They were denied by the jail. They appealed to legal recourses citing their freedom of religion rights to have regular meetings. The judge agreed that they fall under the religious clause and granted them the right to convene.
According to at least one law in the land, you are correct Sophia. They are pushing their religious view in opposition of another. Atheism is dogmatic, not a lack of dogma. The atheists themselves argued that point.
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Originally posted by Sophia Wannabe:
One of the interviewees, I believe it was Margaret Atwood, on Bill Moyers' Faith and Reason program posited that she was an agnostic because she didn't believe in God or religion. Bill said, "You mean you're an atheist." She answered, "No. An atheist believes in a dogma--there is no God." Being dogmatic is what defines religion. Therefore, atheism is a religion.
If she is correct in her definition of religion, then the atheists who have been at the forefront of taking prayer out of schools, the Ten Commandments out of courthouses, and nativity scenes and menorahs off public property are furthering a religious agenda rather than separating church and state.
Sophia Isn't Secular Humanism the official name of the atheistic religion as taught in the public schools in the USA?
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It is also the name of the religion defined AS a religion by the Supreemes...... Secular Humanism is legally a religion in the USofA.
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Originally posted by Starokatolyk:
It is also the name of the religion defined AS a religion by the Supreemes...... Secular Humanism is legally a religion in the USofA. So officially, we are now an atheistic state and have become worse than Russia. sigh
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Originally posted by Elizabeth Maria: Originally posted by Starokatolyk:
[b] It is also the name of the religion defined AS a religion by the Supreemes...... Secular Humanism is legally a religion in the USofA.
sigh [/b]Legally A religion in the US, not THE religion of the US. (At least not officially.) (At least not yet.)
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