Re: ATHEISM - A Side-Effect of Religious Stupidity

"curtjester1" <curtjester1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 9 May, 10:11, Rod <icom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bibon wrote:
> > TUPELO, Miss., -- A federal court of appeals has ruled in favor of an
> > inmate who claimed that Wisconsin prison officials violated his rights
> > under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because they
> > refused to allow him to create a study group for atheists.
>
> > The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prison officials erred
> > because they “did not treat atheism as a ‘religion.’” The court said,
> > “Atheism is [the inmate’s] religion, and the group that he wanted to
> > start was religious in nature even though it expressly rejects a
belief
> > in a supreme being.”
>
> > Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family
Association
> > Center for Law & Policy, described the court’s ruling as “a sort of
> > Alice in Wonderland jurisprudence.”
>
> > “Up is down, and atheism, the antithesis of religion, is religion,”
> > stated Fahling.
>
> > The Supreme Court has said that a religion need not be based on a
belief
> > in the existence of a supreme being. In the 1961 case of Torcaso v.
> > Watkins, the Court described “secular humanism” as a religion.
>
> > ************
>
> > Yes, atheism is a religion and is recognized as such by Federal Courts
> > in the USA. More ammo for you to use against those who doubt your
FAITH!
>
> Atheism is not a religion..the fact that a judge and lawyers see it
> as such is just another indication of the mentality of sickness that
> permeates society today. Atheism is a mode of existence, a means of
> living ones life free of unjustified restraint.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

What exactly are you freeing yourself of?  Is society or religion
forcing you to have to have one of their belief system's?  "Unjustifed
Restraint"?  What a hoot!

The fact is, anything is and can be umbrelled under religion.
Hedonism, government followers....  they are all basically
'lifestyles' that people side up on.   Atheism *IS* just another
religion because they embrace and prosetelyze a system that they don't
care for, a belief in a higher power.  They have no way to actually
prove it, but their religion is to downgrade, debunk, or demoralize
people that do.  I find their argument that an answer(s) in a book
thing also amusing, in that usually they use books all the time to
promote, degrade..and whatever they do to keep their *religion*
alive.

CJ

I bet the book sales make the authors happy.

On both sides.