Reply #184: Why dont you just admit you want the US to be based on christianity? [View All]

I refer you higher up in the thread where someone else is trying to advance the view that rights are only violated when physical force is involved. Thats a really stupid argument.

Who was talking about a piece of art in the park? Once again you return to your propaganda talk. Suddenly a clearly religious statue of the ten commandments is refferred to as only art. CAn you read what you write with a straight face?

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Diversity is letting people of all faiths practice freely. You are arguing that we should let the government give popular faiths special treatment and force people of different faiths to just suck it up and deal with it because you are the majority. That is just about the most unamerican stance you can take.

You advocate letting the majority religiously subjegate the minority. You mention art again NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT ART. Stop saying art. Do you have some problem where you cant use other words. This isnt about art, no one has ever been talking about art. You come into these discussions and try and replace the ten commandments with the word art. Its an obvious and petty ploy.

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You want to force me to have to be exposed to your religious views in governmental places. You are forcing your views on me. If I walk into your church, fine. But when I walk into a public building you have no right to force your views on me.

Now you are lying about me being a liar, how clever of you.

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This last section of yours is priceless. First off I will repeat the very simple fact that as long as no one, including your imagined anti-theist is getting to put up thier symbols, it is indeed equal.

Lets take this lovely logic of yours and apply it elsewhere. Women advocate for equal wages. "If one group get there way and no one else does it is favoritism." So if women get thier way and get equal wages, you are arguing that the government is favoring women... even though the end result is that everyone is equal?

This is quite a definition of equality you have. So if non religious people advocate a public sphere where no religion or anti-religion gets to place its items, it is actually favoring someone even though the end result is complete equality.

Its an interesting definition, but it isnt really the right one.

btw, a very small number of people want a religion free society. There are no significant groups and for the most part it is not these people who oppose the ten commandments. For instance the ACLU was involved in the alabama case representing Jewish Lawyers who had to walk past a protestent ten commandments to go to work.

You are paranoid and have invented some mythical anti-theist conspiricy to eliminate your religion. Most of the people who are fighting the ten commandments are in fact from non christian religions or are people who think that the bill of rights is something worth defending.