Confusinger and confusinger. Man, if ever people were talking at angles to each other, this is the thread where it's happening. As to our Guest, I think that it's hard to have a discussion with someone who is so angry. Any comments that are made seem to be considered inflammatory.

One of the major falacies of any argument, from my admittedly un-scholarly perspective (although I did go two years toward a Doctorate) is that it's a major flaw in any discussion when people are lumped into the most negative judgment. Christians, who range from Mother Theresa and Albert Schweitzer to Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell are all characterized as trying to stuff their religion down the throats of the secular folks. Being one of them Christians you have such antagonism toward (or condescend to) I think that it's not all that important that there be prayer at school, or football games.
Same goes for a public display of the The Ten Commandments. I don't have a problem with banning that kind of public display. By the same token, if you want to get all wound up about something, why don't you get upset about the increasingly ugly music videos, or marketing of sex? I don't suggest censorship of videos, but when rap songs glorify being a Pimp, and clothing for little girls have messages to bite my booty on them, I wonder what's going on in this country. I feel that the values of a corporate driven music industry are being crammed down MY throat.

As I've stated, many of my friends in here, and in my daily life and family are Atheists. We get along just fine. Just as not every Christian is a narrow-minded, judgmental fool, not all Atheists feel that they are suffering under the tyranny of religion.

Jerry