bodecea
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #81
The Constitution promotes FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Not freedom FROM religion. Americans have the right to seek after God and promote God, but we have recently reached a position that freedom of religion means one can expect to be left alone in his/her unbelief or one's personal convictions ---- even if this means believers must be silenced... This is what is sad. The truth shall set one free not independence from seeking truth.
Nonsense.
The Constitution ensures that church and state not be conjoined, where citizens are free from the tyranny of religious dogma being codified into secular law, to indeed be free from religion as legislative mandate.
Its also nonsense to state that believers must be silenced, nothing could be further from the truth. No one advocates any type of religious expression be silenced. Establishment Clause jurisprudence in no way interferes with religious expression. Theists are at liberty to practice their faith at any time, in any place provided they dont seek to have religion promoted or sanctioned by the state.
Then there should be nothing wrong with exposing children to religious thought in public school, in addition to secular thought. Everyone should be free to express their religious beliefs no matter their job discription. However, this is not the case presently.
So you would have been ok with the teachers leading their kids in "Allah Akbar" or "Hare Krishna" since there's nothing wrong with exposing children to religious thought. Maybe Druidic prayer chants might have been more useful during the tornados....but if not, at least it would have been exposing the children to religious thought.