[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your great post, xzins!

And finally, Moore is correct that our 1st amendment acknowledges God. It uses the word "religion." Anyone knows that religion is about God. Specifically, we're told that Congress can't make any kind of law about God. It says that we can't tell someone else how to speak and, particularly, how to "freely exercise" their manner of speech and expression about God.

Many courts, even the Supreme Court, have taken the establishment clause to reference only a belief in God or similiar such collective diety or dieties. This creates hostility toward religion by giving atheism the upper hand in all publicly funded endeavors.

IMHO it must be recognized (hopefully by future litigation) that atheism is tantamount to a religion under the law.

[Modernman]

IMHO it must be recognized (hopefully by future litigation) that atheism is tantamount to a religion under the law.

Certainly. Actively espousing the non-existence of God is just as much of a religious view as espousing God's existence. An atheist public official who wanted to put up a monument of his beliefs should also be prevented from doing so.

The best solution is for government to stay out of religion completely and we wouldn't be having these stupid fights.