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To: Lane3 who wrote (73383)	8/27/2003 10:21:54 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) of 82486

"They have insisted that government adopt a stance of strict agnosticism, which in effect drives from the public realm all things that smack of religious belief. This establishes, in the literal sense, a uniform regime of atheism in government affairs. (In the literal sense, atheism simply means the absence of God, and this, in the public realm, is what the federal judges and justices insist upon.)" He misses the point here. Government does not ENDORSE atheism, it simply remains mute on the subject of religion. NOT displaying or enforcing a preference for a particular God is not equivalent to disapproval of the concept. The decision of Government (the people) to not endorse a particular God does not equate to any position on the concept of God. His linkage of agnosticism to atheism is inappropriate and fallacious. The committment to "hands-off" is not equivalent to an assertion of atheism. The neutrality of Government on religious matters ought not to discomfort rational people.

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