Because I do like a good debate, Armen, I would like you to go over your argument about our constitution placing a "bar against religion in government".

I take it then, by that standard, all of our elected officials should be Atheist, or at the very least Agnostic. This would be the case to make sure someones religious 'fanaticism' didn't influence them. Would'nt that baring violate the constitution by allowing a prohibitation against religion?

Just a thought.

The only reason I am really watching this thread is because I tend to observe silently. I suppose in light of all that has happened today, I don't want to be silent anylonger. Your post waving a flawed reference to our Constitution only stuck out like a sore thumb to me. Your intolerance to peoples 'fanatical beliefs' made you seem somewhat fanatical yourself. Like I said before, don't blame the religion, don't blame the book, don't blame the movie. Blame the man that commited the evil. Blame the ones that act on the impulse of evil. Religion has helped many people cope through things in thier lives. Personally I think that is a good thing. But if a man reads a Bilbe, Tora, Koran, Winnie the Pooh and uses it to justify commiting horrible crimes. It is the man, not the religion to blame.