Quote Originally Posted by jsn9333
Ill-founded? Religion has been a founding legal principle in this country since the very beginning. The 1st amendment establishes the right for people to freely practice their own religion. Atheism is even a protected belief system. The government is not allowed to deny atheists the right to vote, etc. just because of their religious belief that there is definitely no God.

What department of a college would you take a course on atheism in? What section of a bookstore would you find a book about it in? That's right... the "religion" section. To say there is no God is to make a religious statement... a statement about religions.

I'm not trying to convert anyone and I'm not trying to get the government to promote my religion over atheism or any other belief system. I'm asking that my own religious beliefs and personal rights be respected, and that everyone's religious beliefs (even the belief that there is no God) be respected. That is all. People should be able to practice what they believe, in a personal way. You should have the right to sit in your home and talk about how there is no God. I should have the right to sit in my own home and smoke weed if that is how I commune with and think about God.
- The right to vote shouldn't have anything to do with religion. People are supposed to be treated equally no matter how different they are in any way.

- There is theism and atheism. religion has to do with theism, which is a totaly different thing to atheism. Atheism isn't a belief system. I don't believe, I know.

- Where else would they put atheism anyway. It has to do with contrasting religion, so thats the closest thing it's assosiated with.

- Sorry if i disrespected you