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Vincent Reynolds wrote:
They aren't teaching the children religion, any religion. There is no such thing as this "secular religion" you keep yammering about. It doesn't exist. Secular religion is an oxymoron. There is also no "secular agenda". Secularism is barely an "-ism" at all, and certainly doesn't merit an agenda, unless you count keeping your religion out of my kids' classroom, and mine out of yours. If you believe that it is okay for the religion of the majority to be taught in public schools to everyone, it is most certainly you who hasn't the slightest clue about separation of church and state.
The concept of "separation of church and state" is a modern one crafted by judges who were not nearly as wise as Thomas Jefferson. Secularism in the United States has always merely meant government neutrality when it comes to religion. In other words, religion can neither be outlawed nor established. It does not and has never (until recent atheist extremists began inundating the courts) meant that democratically legislated laws and statutes must originate from purely secular means. Doing so undermines the government, the constitution and the people as it strips them of their 10th amendment right to self-government and, if taken as far as you want it to be taken, of their religious rights as well. Your entire argument stems from a personal and unfounded fear of religion and assumes that religious Americans as a whole are as extreme as yourself. As a result, you want to subvert America's ability to legislate anything contradictory to your personal anti-religious views which, of course, is directly contradictory to democracy. Fortunately, our Founding Fathers were very astute people and gave us appropriate protections from people like you.
espeir wrote:
unfounded fear of religion and assumes that religious Americans as a whole are as extreme
All you have to do is watch TV. Pat Robertson, to name only the biggest asshole. The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.