A forum member writes: I recently heard on C-SPAN a spirited defense by the Alabama judge who had the monument to the ten commandments who tried to make the point that while there is a separation of church and state or religion and state in the US, there is not a separation of God and state. To the contrary, he said, theism is implied in all our founding documents and was assumed by the founding fathers, suggesting, therefore, that atheism or agnosticism is unconstitutional and unAmerican.
This is indeed an attitude taken by quite a lot of people on the Christian Right. They hope that they can separate “religion” from their conception of “God” in a way that allows for them to have the government endorse their God without also endorsing their religion. Do you think that this is reasonable? Read More...
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