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Aye. This was not an Atheist nation when I was four, and it still

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Date Posted: 15:52:39 06/28/02 Fri
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In reply to: Kathyrn 's message, "The 'Under God' part was not added until 1954" on 03:07:49 06/27/02 Thu

...is not. Until we can search in every place there is (as-opposed to searching a few homes on one minor planet)--

--with the technology to detect everything which exists in any dimension--

--any assertion you or I (or an Atheist sibling of mine) may make, re: the existence of God, is gratuitous. Logic supports neither the existence or non-existence to the exclusion of the other. Atheism is therefore--just another belief-system in no way superior or more morally entitled to special treatment than any other belief.

If I ever have money to burn (because such a place would be firebombed) I will build a *Church of Atheism,* complete with a half-hour TV Evangelism show. I will contrive a Holy Writ in some arcane language, and costumes for the clergy. That will provide the Atheist-faith with the trappings which place it under A1's 'establishment clause.' It should have been there all along.

Please understand that I believe government must be kept out of religion--not the same thing as suppressing all evidence of belief, lest someone who believes differently take umbrage. Believers have been treated as delinquent tenants in the name of the Atheists' 'freedom of religion' --with Atheist as the landlord of the metaphor, ever since Ms Murray provided employment for a mess of lawyers way back when. Backlash was inevitable. Use of one's offspring as a Human Shield for one's agenda was beneath contempt then, and it still is. Best wishes to you.

RKBA! Regards, all.

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