Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
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Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
yeah, it seems what they meant is freedom to be a christian without the pope and absolutely nothing else. no nonbelievers, no non-abrahamics, hell, not even any abrahamic believers who believe in other religions. protestant, mormon, or cringe catholic, take your pick or go to literal hell.
and the best part is when they use the excuse of religious freedom as a shield for their bigotry. like i'm sorry, if your holy book literally calls for gays to be stoned to death that's a call to violence, it doesn't deserve to be protected or tolerated.
Honestly can someone even provide me with an excerpt from the bible that actively cites the hatred of homosexuals
If by "they" you're referring to the folks who wrote the Constitution (many of whom were Deists, not Christians), that's very much historical revisionism. The religious right certainly thinks that's what they thought, but it isn't true.
This reminds me of one of my favorites quotes, which is about the 2020 US presidential election, and I'm not even from the USA, but it's suitable in so much scenarios in life: "It shouldn't be this close."
Even as a Christian myself, I agree with you. Separation of Church and State. Politics mixing with religion has been terrible for both.
No it hasn't. Religions benefit almost immeasurably from infiltrating politics in so many ways, ranging from exemption from all discrimination laws, to having their private schools funded by tax money, to controlling the majority of hospitals in the country, to being allowed to rape and marry children consequence free.
Let me try a different argument:
The separation of church and state has forced American denominations to compete in a marketplace for souls/money, and they have become ruthlessly efficient corporatized entities, using marketing and business-process management, and exploiting tax advantages and high switching costs.
Meanwhile, in Europe, you have official state Catholicism or Protestantism-flavors, which are moribund, inspire little passion, and most everyone is either atheist, agnostic, or un-passioned.
This statement presupposes that religion hasn't always been inherently political. Religion is nothing if not a tool for control.
Absolutely. It's hard to conceive of something that has been more damaging to society than Abrahamic religion.
I think the concept of money was the most detrimental, but Abrahamic mythologies are a close second.
The country was founded of freedom of religion by the fanatics who were too fanatical for England.
No certain colonies were founded by zealots too fanatical for England and the Netherlands, the country was founded by slave owning wealthy people
When will this myth die
Nope. This country was founded on the idea that weathly people shouldn't have to pay their fair share of taxes.
Don’t conflate a religion with the religious extremists.
All religion is extremist.
Don't criminalize abortion and I won't.
One man's extremist is another man's hero.