More people identify with a religion than they do a political party or democracy. Look at the participation rate in the last election. Things are looking up!
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking on the state of Oklahoma over a monument featuring the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, which is prominently placed in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. According to a statement released by the ACLU and the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation on Tuesday, the lawsuit “seeks to have the monument removed” on the grounds that it violates constitutional provisions against use of government property to promote a particular sect or religion.
According to the rights group, the monument “trivializes” the religious meaning of the commandments by placing them in “a political and secular context.” The Ten Commandments are sacred to both Jewish and Christian believers, and as such, the ACLU is arguing, belong in a sacred space like a church or synagogue rather than a state capitol.
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According to Oklahoma City’s News9.com, the monument was financed by Republican Rep. Mike Ritze and his family, who shelled out $10,000 to erect it with the blessing of the Republican-led state legislature in 2009. When it was first erected, the six foot tall granite monument contained a number of spelling errors, including the word “sabbath” spelled “sabbeth” and the word “maidservant” as “maidseruant.”
Just one more case of the GOP forcing religion down citizens throats in violation of the first amendment.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I think they are comparable to the "Christian Militants" who push Christianity on everyone they meet. They are a minority among the group but a very visible and vocal minority. (I've had Christian Jehovah Witnesses at my door lots of times, but never an Atheist Promoter)
The Atheists that I've met don't advertise their views or sell their Atheism to those around them.
Christian Jehovah Witnesses ? are Jehovah Whitness Christian ?
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