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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (73186)	8/24/2003 9:01:19 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I agree with my understanding of it. Not necessarily with yours. As an article I think karen posted said, there is a substantial difference between freedom of religion and absence of religion. The State does not impose religion when it places religious symbols on public property, as long as it allows the freedom to disregard those symbols. I know X disagrees with this, and believes that simply having a religious symbol is tyrranous. But she's simply wrong about that. You are free to worship any way you want to. (Or almost any way; you're not free to engage in virgin sacrifices even if you claim that to be an essential part of your religion.) That's freedom of religion. Putting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of a courthouse is no more establishing religion than is putting the Star of David in diaplay in a public museum.