If America was an Atheist Country

[dogsgod]

Actually you have it exactly backward.

Atheism simply denies god exists...period.
You can be an atheist and still be "religious".
Atheism isn`t anti-religion anti-theism is.

Secularism directly confronts and denies any and all religious expression in the public square from the powers that be.
It is directly anti-religion from a governmental POV.

Secularism does not allow (in this case the government) to favor any particular religion over another. There is not a problem allowing all religious expression in the public square, it's all or none, and none is easier to manage than all. Prayer in particular favors some religions over others, that is the problem with leading a prayer in a public square.

 

[logician]

I'm sorry I just had to ask it, LOL. If America was an Atheist country would the government punish people for being religious like Communist Russia did? Like China still does?

I think you have it backwards, just look at the U.S. for example, atheists are in general much more tolerant of other's beliefs, particularly publicly, than theists are.

 

[linwood]

Secularism does not allow (in this case the government) to favor any particular religion over another. There is not a problem allowing all religious expression in the public square, it's all or none, and none is easier to manage than all. Prayer in particular favors some religions over others, that is the problem with leading a prayer in a public square.

The truth of your statement doesn`t negate my comment.

Secularism demands no sanctioned religion in the pubic square.

It is more anti-religion than atheism.
Atheism technically isn`t anti religion at all.

 

[dogsgod]

The truth of your statement doesn`t negate my comment.

Secularism demands no sanctioned religion in the pubic square.

It is more anti-religion than atheism.
Atheism technically isn`t anti religion at all.

By not favoring any particular religion secularism allows for all religions to flourish. How can a neutral basis that provides for all religions be considered anti religious?

 

[LuisDantas]

By denying claims that religion deserves special privilege, I suppose.

 

[dogsgod]

The purpose of a secular document such as the Constitutions is to allow for all religions to flourish on a religiously neutral platform. This is accomplished by preventing any one religion in particular to be favored or given special privilege by government in order that one religion does not dominate over all others. The purpose is to allow all people to be free to practice any religion of their own choosing or not to practice as they see fit. To call this anti-religious in any way is to not understand the full neutrality that is secularism.

 

[linwood]

By denying claims that religion deserves special privilege, I suppose.

Yes, a weak thread indeed but stronger still than the thread to atheism.

 

[LuisDantas]

Oh, let there be no doubt, I don't think there is anything to the claim that a lay state is "anti-religious".

Although I will readily grant that it will hardly appease religions such as Islam. Then again, I don't think appeasing desires of a theological State is a goal worth pursuing.