Atheist why are you so arrogant to think you can keep God out of the schools and the government?

Question

look what has happened to countries who have tried this. Get use to it because you will have a fight on your hands. Of couse you don't believe this but you still can't help but make remarks about it. God Bless

All i'm saying is get use God you will be hearing a lot more of him

Answer 1

It's obviously not the atheists who have the arrogance problem.

That being said, keeping "God" out of schools and the government is easy, because "God" doesn't exist. Were that our goal, we'd have already won, and there's not a thing that you can do about it.

What we're trying to do is promote the freedom of religion, and if you people think you're going to stop us and put Christianity into schools and government, you're going to find out that we're done putting up with that kind of anti-American nonsense.

Answer 2

As an atheist I approve of the insinuation of religion and government. Not because I have any respect for it, but because turning any religion into a bland perfunctory nondenominational recitation guts any real interest in religion. Association with the invariably self serving, crooked politicians who make up the machinery of government, with their petty manipulations and general incompetence, will sully religion beyond all repair.

As an American who values the right of personal conscience I must disapprove however. The government has no business in the game of promoting religious opinion. Doing so always results in ever increasing trespass on personal conscience.

I'm not aware of any attempts to get 'god' out of schools or government historically. Only a few attempts to vest political parties with religious authority. Those have always been self destructive. Of course I'm not a paranoid fundie with a martyr complex.

Answer 3

You need to get over your persecution complex...it's really quite old.

Noone, and let me repeat this, NOONE is trying to remove god from schools or government. People are only trying to enforce equality. I could care less if a teacher or student says a silent prayer each morning. It's of little consequence if a local judge or mayor goes to church on Sunday.

The issue comes in when a person of a differing faith, is required to participate in mandatory prayer; or the 10 commandments are displayed at a courthouse, while other faiths have no representation. Does your town want to decorate a tree for the month of December? Great, but be prepared to accomodate the Jewish residents with a menorah, or those with pagan leanings by recognizing the yule.

You can kick and scream all you want, that we'll have a fight on our hands, but you'd do well to remember this:

Tax money comes from all citizens; therefore, all citizens must be taken care of with it. If you can't accomodate and represent each person, then the only way to take care of all is to not acknowledge any.

EDIT: In regards to your additional comments, there's nothing that you can say that we haven't heard (and proven to be patently false) before.

Answer 4

Why is it that you feel God has to be in schools? And why do you think the only people protesting prayer in school are Atheists?

If I was a Muslim, or a Buddhist, or whatever other religion you can think of, I certainly wouldn't appreciate having my child being forced to pray to some other god in a public school. And that the real issue, not atheists. The arrogant part is that people like YOU seem to think everyone has to share your personal beliefs.

God has no official place in a public school. Notice, "official place". The school should not be in the business of promoting religion. If you want your child to have prayer and worship in school, send them to a private school. But don't force your beliefs on all of society's children just because you like it that way. There is a reason for the separation of church and state, and that applies to school as much as anything else.

So, if you want your child to pray, they can. But don't expect the kid sitting next to him to pray with him, unless he shares your faith.

Answer 5

Which countries would those be? Sweden? Norway? England? Most of Europe, in fact? They seem to be doing pretty well. It took a lot of religious wars and innocent bloodshed to get there.
Look at the countries where gods are placed first: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan. Want to live like that? Want science to be discounted, medical advances to be held up to a litmus test of "God's word?" Do you like the idea of living in the 14th century?
No, thanks. I'll stick to our Constitution, and the exclusion clause. I like having freedom FROM worship. If you like the idea of theocracy, maybe you should move. All religions are the same, anyway, so it shouldn't matter.

And if you didn't want "remarks," you shouldn't have asked.

Answer 6

Your religion has no business trying to put your god into schools and gvt. Your religion is not the only religion in the world. So get over yourself. And you can take your arrogant and rude "god bless" and shove it. Saying that at the end doesn't make what you said at the beginning and the middle any less insulting and rude.

Answer 7

technological know-how explains the actual, faith explains each and every thing else. the subjects take place whilst technological know-how and faith are seen as opposing disciplines and concept structures. they are incredibly not. however the lawsuits you have are obvious on the two factors... the fringe of the atheist and the fringe of the non secular. the two factors think of they have something that the different area won't settle for or understand. this is unhappy, incredibly, because of the fact there is the form of breakdown of verbal replace with each and every of the prejudices and assumptions and stereotypes that fly around right here.

Answer 8

I am an atheist and I am not arrogant at all.

I do not try to keep deities out of any place. If these deities are omnipotent, I am sure they can go wherever they please.

However, I think it is a worthy cause to keep christians from trying to insert their god-beliefs into our public schools. These god-beliefs have no place in public education. Either teach all religions and all god-beliefs and atheism as well, or teach none of these things.

Leave the teaching of god-beliefs to their respective churches where mandatory attendance is not necessary as it is in public schools.

Answer 9

Same thing right back at you only lots more of it,you arrogant xtian! Get a grip,you sound like a moron.

I haven't heard anything from god and I'm sure I won't be hearing anything from him. He is imaginary. Of course if you hear voices you might be schizophrenic.

Answer 10

Um you've lost the fight. Seperation of Church and state supreme court case.
You an have god in your lockers, your head, your bible, your church, your clothes, your jewlery, but no...you can't MAKE the school put him there. And why does he have to be there? Oh that's right...you guys are still trying to take over the world. I forgot.