People are being killed all over the world in the name of one religion. Are we going to keep pretending this religion's beliefs isn't at odds with our own written law?
If I owned a newspaper it's headline Saturday morning would have read 'Freedom of Religion' with a large picture of all the dead French in the road.
They are not allowing us freedom from their religion, and thus, do not belong in our countries that share this ideal.
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[–] Proppa 6 points 6 points 12 points (+12|-6) ago (edited ago)
Freedom of speech means freedom from speech
Sorry I'm just tired of this dumb interpretation. What our forefathers had in mind was preventing religious persecution that they themselves faced overseas, I don't think they had any problems with imposing their religious ideologies on non-religious people. You see it to this very day
[–] SecularPenguinist 4 points 3 points 7 points (+7|-4) ago
Your play on words doesn't compute. Switching them around changes the meaning.
Indeed freedom from religion is the correct interpretation. Why do you think we seceded from England in the first place?
Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams were quite secular.
[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Eh, Washington favored retaining Anglicanism as the state religion of Virginia. Ditto for Adams and Congregationalism in Massachusetts.
That sounds like the Taliban. Even today's religious right in the US wouldn't go so far.
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[–] Kal [S] 4 points 3 points 7 points (+7|-4) ago (edited ago)
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you read about Freedom of Religion in the first amendment also being Freedom from Religion you'll see that I am not just pulling that out of thin air.
There have been enough books on this subject to fill libraries. Perhaps you should get busy reading?
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7500.html
[–] 9-11 8 points -5 points 3 points (+3|-8) ago
yeah, it appears the degenerate leftists over at v/atheism are leaking again...
[–] Kal [S] 3 points 3 points 6 points (+6|-3) ago
Wow... for people that talk about the first amendment so often, I'm surprised how little understanding you guys have of it. Seriously, get off voat and go pick up a book.