Atheism isn’t an Absence in belief

On 9/2/2010 4:00 PM, Benj wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2:18 pm, DanielSan wrote:
>> On 9/1/2010 6:49 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>
>>> The federal government tries to teach that there is NO God.
>>
>> No. It doesn’t.
>
> DanielSan tries to win the debate by trying “proof by assertion”.
> Score one loss for DanielSan.
>
> Actually it is leftards like DanielSan that believe in the atheist
> religion. The atheist religion teaches that there is NO God. The
> clever atheist trick used to promote their religion is both the
> teaching of it in schools to the young under the camouflage of “Theory
> of Evolution”. [the "theory of evolution" is NOT what is being taught,
> ask any scientist] and in government they are attempting to establish
> atheism as the state religion by using the bogus argument that
> “freedom of religion” and permitting the free practice thereof means
> that the state must prohibit ALL religious practice in pubic or in
> public places. This presupposes that Atheism is something neutral
> rather than just one more religion. That of course, is a lie. Atheism
> IS a belief system. In fact it is a belief system with rather exact
> dogma. That is the essence of the ploy.
>
>>> Neutral is
>>> to do NOTHING, when they start suppressing belief in God they are
>>> proactively engaging in the DEBATE.
>>
>> The government isn’t suppressing belief.
>
> Lessee. The government park police prohibit even SILENT prayer at
> national monuments! Does that strike you as somehow “prohibiting the
> free exercise thereof”? Methinks it does. And there are MANY more
> examples than that. The problem here is that atheists are arguing
> that if they are offended by someone’s religious practice, then those
> people must not be allowed to practice it. Atheists then cleverly
> dodge behind the wall that says atheism isn’t really a religion, it’s
> the “absence” of it and therefore even if atheists are offensive to
> some others they can’t be made to give up their offensive practices.
> It’s very clever, even if it is disingenuous.
>
>
you nailed it…..