willowtree,
willowtree writes:
The topic title implies that the State somehow exempts religious rights from being chipped away at. The title also implies that religious rights are not being eroded.
I disagree with you on both points. It is merely your opinion that the topic title implies either of your premises. You read too much into the mod's and/or Sylas'use of the words "if any". Perhaps they don't think there has been any erosion of rights. Perhaps they are open to having you point any erosions out to them, which is what I think was implied. You could ask them if anything was meant besides the actual words.
As Cynic1 has ably pointed out to you, atheism is not a religion.
This country may have been founded by many theists/deists, but they went out of their way to keep their religion out of the new government. So what if they owned Bibles? I own a Bible. That doesn't make me a xian.
How would you presume to know how the FF wanted their efforts to be interpreted?
willowtree writes:
Separation of Church and State is nowhere to be found in the Contract, it is an invention of atheists who robbed a theist (Thomas Jefferson) of his words and twisted their meaning to suit their objectives.
Say what? This is nothing more than opinion. It is accurate that the actual words "separation of church and state" is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. But the first Amendment is most definitely a separation between religion and government. It keeps the government out of religion, and religion out of government. Or, at least, it is supposed to. It is funny how some Jefferson quotes taken out of context are sometimes used by people like you to bolster your arguments; yet you try to claim some of his quotes that present xianity in a negative view have been altered.
Those judgements by the judicial branch you referred to are very much correct decisions. How could you possibly deny that a cross on public land is an endorsement of xianity? Do you deny that the cross has any special relationship or symbolism to xianity?
And you need to cut the bullshit. This is NOT a xian nation. Where the hell did you ever get that riduculous idea from?
So what if you can find myriad references to some deity or another from the FF? When it came down to actually making the contract (as you prefer to call it) they most certainly made it GODLESS.
You imply a god/xianity hatred where none exists. How could anyone hate anything that they don't think exists?
We seem to agree on John Ashcroft, though probably for different reasons.