Discussion: In New York Town, Atheists Get The Shaft After Supreme Court Ruling

If you want to blame someone for GWB, blame Florida Democrats.
If one percent of these Democrats had stuck with their own
candidate, Gore would easily have won Florida. In addition, half
of all registered Democrats did not even bother going to the polls
and voting.

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When in Greeceā€¦

Shhhh! Donā€™t deny them their Nader Myth!

It helps them sleep at night. Bless their hearts.

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Thank you for your, huh, slightly more illuminating response than my post :wink:

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As a Jedi, I demand the right to open with a prayer to the Midichlorians, for eternal judgment on Jar Jar!

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Itā€™s Godā€™s will. In Republican America thereā€™s no place for anyone elseā€™s.

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Bulls**t like this is why our founders DELIBERATELY left religion out of our government.

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I donā€™t believe much of the political support for ā€œevangelical Christiansā€ actually cares about Christianity at all, but only uses it as a fulcrum to leverage power between the wealthy and the poor.

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The unscientific era.

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I think itā€™s still open to debate as to how much Nader had to do with Gore not winning, and Iā€™m not here to extend that debate, but when anyone says, no gwbush, and a list of the bad stuff that ensued in his presidency, itā€™s the Iraq war of choice that canā€™t be omitted from that list. Itā€™s comparable and equally sad as imagining all the possibilities of a RFK presidency.

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i wonder how christians would feel if athiests were to treat them as badly?

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Basically, theyā€™d do the exact same whining that they do now, but would probably actually have a legit excuse.

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Well of course not! He was a Jew fer ā€” sake.
Sheesh.

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Spare me all the complaining. The ordinance says, to quote the article,ā€¦[quote]assemblies with an established presence in the Town of Greece that regularly meet for the primary purpose of sharing a religious perspective.[/quote]

So in other words, if you want to lead the town in prayer, you actually have to be regularly lead people from their town in prayer. You just canā€™t come from out of nowhere with no following and claim to be a religious leader and lead them in prayer.

The court got the case right, and the town got this right.

The people who are complaining should just give it rest. They sound like militant atheists, who donā€™t believe in anything, not respecting faith and trying to keep everybody else from respecting faith. They are actually complaining that people who donā€™t pray to any god, should be able to lead people in prayer to god. Itā€™s ridiculous on itā€™s face.

Dude on the right looks like he got hold of some bad communion wafers.

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To paraphrase a line out of ā€œThe Blues Brothersā€:
Q: ā€œSo, what kind of Religion do you have here in Greece, N.Y.?ā€
A: ā€œOh, we have BOTH kinds, Catholic and Baptist!ā€

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Tell that to the Supreme Court Catholics.

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On the liberalism-conservatism scale the 2013 votes of Bernie Sanders gave him rank #37, which means that in the Democratic caucus he is not even in the more liberal halfof Senators, let alone on top of themā€¦
Sanders is a pragmatic politician. Thereā€™s no way in hell that heā€™ll pull a Nader stunt.

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Why does prayer have to include a God or Gods (Buddhists often, though not always, donā€™t pray to a deity)? And why is meeting for religious ceremony a pre-requisite. Youā€™re just defining religion and religious practices as the religion youā€™re used to.

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Learn to type.