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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  I don't find it offensive...but then again there are a lot of laws that when broken, don't seem offensive to me.
It just depends on whether you think your actions are moral enough to break the law.
I also don't see the big deal with just leaving religion out of the state.
Has it become so offensive for people to leave their religion as something personal?
I'm not necessarily 'offended' to see a nativity scene outside my courthouse, but I am when children in a public school are forced to pray...no matter what religion. Likewise, I find it greatly troublesome when tax dollars are going toward any religion, as Thomas Jefferson eloquently put it:
"...to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical;..."
Thomas Jefferson in, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
No. Just from the state.
Oh, you are? Well, even as a Godless liberal atheist, I can't say I have that problem....
Yeah, those damn uppity atheists... 
Because, if God is all-knowing and timeless, he knowingly created the devil and evil too.
You're not saying that the devil has ultimate power over God are you? | One would assume that all atheists, if they are so offended by tax dollars funding religion, they might complain about the religion of "DARWINIAN EVOLUTION" funded by the State with no objection, could it be that it is because that it is based upon the religion of materialism? Evolution has never been proven only speculated, yet it has become an obsession by the secular world to limit our understanding of mans origin based solely on this "Idea", to the exclusiveness of all others that are just as much based in science as evolution. The courts have even limited their decisions to include only two theories....Evolution or creation, when in reality, there can not be evolution without first something was created, because nothing can create itself. A paradox of liberal logic? Sense intelligent design explains much more that evolution ever can in the basic cognation to reason. Ralph |