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At 10/2/06 01:48 AM, defactoidZERO wrote:

At 10/2/06 01:40 AM, The-Bi99man wrote: What does math and reading have to do with religion?

Many different religious institutions conduct a number of non-religious services to the community, including after-school programs, breakfast clubs, tutoring programs, and community charity benefits, to name a few.

All of which could be done by non-religious institutions without shoving unrelated beliefs down the throats of all who participate (whether they like it or not). Sorry about the delayed response, but I hit the 4 posts per half hour limit then got distracted. Anyway. I agree with you, to an extent, on the "do away with ignorance, not religion" statement. But I honestly don't think it's possible to have any kind of constructive religion without getting the ignorant (and in some cases, just violent for the sake of being violent) people who take it too seriously and end up causing more harm than good.

The point of the First Amendment is to protect religious freedom. Congress shall not only make no law respecting an establishment of religion but it shall make no law PROHIBITING them either. Telling a high school graduate that they can't say thank you Jesus during her graduation speech is unconstitutional. Telling a city they can't allow a cresh set is unconstitutional. So many of the things that the ACLU does are blatantly unconstitutional. Hell, they even support manditory Islamic education (including some religious practices) for grade schoolers.

Congress cannot impose a national religion not can they deny individual practice. Yet that is exactly what our courts do...all the time. The first amendment doesn't say that we can give tax breaks...it just simply says "no national religion, allow people personal religious freedoms".