Trying to keep the religious from imposing their religion VIA the state. The religious have every right to impose themselves LEGALLY, and without the aid of the state. The state should neither prop up, nor hinder, religion, or the way the religious privately impose themselves (within the law) on other people (although some religious insist that it hinders religion to have the government out of it, especially if government was historically IN the religion business, which imo means government made a mistake once that needs to be corrected, not protected in perpetuity. And when you consider what state sponsored religion has managed to do to religion in Europe, you'd think the religious might want the government out too, but maybe they don't know much about Europe.)
So be very careful when you talk about imposition. The religious have every right to impose on you, within their legal rights, what most agnostics and atheists want (I hope) is to make sure that the government does not get in the business of such imposition. People who want the government to get in that business need to have their heads examined, imo. But we all want a different kind of world, and there are obviously some people out there who would be a lot more comfortable with a theocracy, or a government more aligned with theocracy, than I would be. |
