Religion, politics and society
06/22/05
A government of a country like the United States of America is supposed to have as its central purposes 'to secure our rights.' And that means the rights of everyone, not only its monotheistic, atheist, agnostic, or pantheist citizens. Thus in an important respect the prohibition of the coupling of any faith or philosophical viewpoint and the government must apply, and most sensibly so. Government may not champion agnosticism, pantheism, atheism, or any other form of commitment -- or non-commitment -- to religion. The government must only be concerned with something that pertains to everyone, which happens to be just what the Founders believed -- to secure everyone's basic individual rights. However, when government becomes entangled in as many aspects of society as ours has, it is impossible to insist that it remain divorced from people's religious or non-religious convictions...
http://tinyurl.com/co33a
from SOLO HQ, by Tibor R. Machan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
A government of a country like the United States of America is supposed to have as its central purposes 'to secure our rights.' And that means the rights of everyone, not only its monotheistic, atheist, agnostic, or pantheist citizens. Thus in an important respect the prohibition of the coupling of any faith or philosophical viewpoint and the government must apply, and most sensibly so. Government may not champion agnosticism, pantheism, atheism, or any other form of commitment -- or non-commitment -- to religion. The government must only be concerned with something that pertains to everyone, which happens to be just what the Founders believed -- to secure everyone's basic individual rights. However, when government becomes entangled in as many aspects of society as ours has, it is impossible to insist that it remain divorced from people's religious or non-religious convictions...
http://tinyurl.com/co33a
from SOLO HQ, by Tibor R. Machan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Jun, 10:34
