heres a better definition.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
-First Amendment to the United States Constitution
So, lets just stop with the
christians>Atheists and
atheists>christians
Muslims>all
Christians>all
and Pagans>all
and whatever other religions you can think of, and before the atheists complain that atheism is not a religion, I KNOW THAT, so dont shoot me down okay?
The only reason im putting this here is because this is USA (at least where i live) and http://music.aol.com/video/why-cant-we-be-friends/smash-mouth/1346530
2007-11-13 03:04:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
haha, you posting this isn't gonna change a thing. you know that right?
2007-11-13 03:08:56 · answer #1 · answered by :) 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, founder of the Harvard Law School and considered today to be the foremost of American legal writers, wrote in 1833, "…at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the Amendment to it now under consideration [the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation… The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
2007-11-13 03:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you don't understand it very much.
The government is not allowed to make a law saying just that, but I am allowed to have my opinion and I am allowed to say it if I want.
2007-11-13 03:11:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess that technically, atheism is a belief system, or perhaps a philosophy.
2007-11-13 03:12:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Government can't understand why would R&S users understand it?
2007-11-13 03:08:43 · answer #5 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People come here just to express themselves and vent.
2007-11-13 03:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by paula r 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Friendliness is overrated.
2007-11-13 03:07:44 · answer #7 · answered by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
duck ball, RPG!
2007-11-13 03:07:50 · answer #8 · answered by LordVader 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This question is mildly ironic and hypocritical.
2007-11-13 03:08:24 · answer #9 · answered by Kailee 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋