Discriminated Against?
Posted on November 04th, 2002 in Religion, United States
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width="80" align="right" border="0" />Thousands of non-believers converged on the Mall yesterday to demand equal rights under the Constitution. I must have missed something. When were non-believers stripped of their rights? Lack of belief is the same thing as a different religion. Those who are “secular humanists” are already protected under the free exercise of religion clause of the 1st Amendment. I just don’t get what they’re protesting against?
If non-believers represent 14% of the population, why weren’t they able to muster more than 2,000 protesters?
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November 4th, 2002
Based on myself and my non-believing friends, it’s because atheists tend to be non-followers and individualists. We also tend to be very much live and let live (for Christians, Muslims, gays, blacks, whomever) - so long as the system allows equitable living. I don’t think it’s so much that the “Godless Americans” wanted equal treatment for themselves under the Constitution - they wanted Christians to stop receiving special treatment (re: the separation of church and state).
Now, we can argue until we’re blue in the face about the interpretation of freedom of religion, so let’s not do that. I’m just giving my opinion on why the crowd was not larger, based on anecdotal evidence.
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