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Originally posted by Kitsune
[[Freedom of religion didn't mean freedom FROM religion.
Bullshit. The citizens of the United States of America can believe in whatever they want, even if it is nothing at all, a sacred rock, or a god in the sky. To think otherwise is denying freedom.
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freedom of religion means that you have the right to believe in anything you want, if that means you believe in nothing at all. people can make a religion out of anything. in fact, many atheists have turned their belief into a form of religion. they spend vast amounts of time, energy, and money trying to convince people that there is no god, just as fundamental christians do trying to get people to believe there is a god. the only difference between the 2 groups is the idea of god/no god. everything else is the same, it is a belief that they hold so strongly that they feel the need to bring other people to the light.
i support everyone's right to believe what they want. but what i don't like is our gradual move from an insistence upon freedom OF religion, to a movement towards freedom FROM religion. no where in the early documents this nation was founded upon suggested that there was a need to push religious belief out of public view. they simply stated that there could not be a particular faith required to be a citizen. that is what was meant about gov't respecting religion.
i'm willing to bet that there are people reading this that actually believe the phrase "separation of church and state" can be found in the constitution. if you do, you may want to check again.