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Originally Posted by scaeagles
There is a movement - not mainstream whatsoever, not even on the left, but way, way out left - to have all references to religion and God removed. There was a suit filed here in Phoenix not so long ago by a man who didn't like churches advertizing with - i guess I'd call the sandwich board things - little standing pyramid ads - on the side of the road on Sundays. He was driving on public streets, built with public money, and the ads were on public property, the sidewalks nearby built with public funds, as was the landscaping the signs were on. Violated the separation of church and state. He shouldn't have to view those ads on public property.
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This reminds me of (many) friends of mine who complain about lit crosses on hillsides, saying it offends them that they have to have it "shoved in their faces" and that they "shouldn't be allowed to do that". Yet these are the same people who would probably cheer if their own religious symbols were lit up on that hillside. And it has nothing to do with the government. Everyone wants religious tolerance as it relates to them, they just don't see why they should be tolerant of anyone else. Athiests (sorry Euro) are often the worst of these. They act all offended at the mere mention of God, which they don't believe in. If you don't believe in God, it's not a violation of your "religion" to say "under God", because there's no karmic judgement for claiming belief in something if you believe there's nothing out there greater than yourself. However, I know athiests who are positively pushy about their belief system (or rather, lack thereof), to the point that they are admittedly proselytizing. This one lady literally has a goal to make other people stop believing in their religions just because SHE doesn't think there's a god.
This guy strikes me as one of those. He's pushing his religious agenda (that of wiping out religion) on everyone else in the country. By forcing us to remove "under God" (which doesn't say WHICH god, and therefore is not pushing any particular religion), what he's really doing is forcing the government to comply with his own religion - that of not believing in/acknowledging God.
