A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.

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    301 year ago

    No, what they meant was freedom to worship whatever religion you please.

    It’s the people who have come since that have corrupted it. And recently too. If you go back to the 70s or 80s, religious tolerance was pretty common in both political parties. One of those just has happened to shift violently to the right, and I mean violently. In doing so they’ve weaponized their religion and are now twisting the words of the constitution.

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      21 year ago

      I feel like this is inaccurate. What other religions were on hand in the late 1700s? The native religions, of course, but the white guys did not care about that.

      Of course there was an emphasis on avoiding dependence on any one organized religion. That was one way of keeping power in the right hands.

      And in the 1970s and 1980s, it depends where in the US, but in many places or was and is very common to be Christian. If there is an strong majority, there’s no need to explicitly weaponize because society itself is already pushing your agenda. But that doesn’t mean harm wasn’t caused.

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          11 year ago

          I hope you get up on the other side of the bed tomorrow. It sounds like you’re going through a rough time in life, but with luck perhaps it’s only a one day phenomenon.

          Also, if you want to troll, try to do a better job than that. I got kind of bored reading it.