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The State Religion

If belief in God were nothing more than a notion produced by human beings, an electrochemical fabrication of the human mind expressed to explain, comfort, or persuade others, what makes the idea of atheism any different?

You can’t articulate the absence of belief based on your biochemically manufactured worldview without making the act of expressing atheism (to explain, comfort, or persuade) an electrochemical manifestation of the human mind competing with other similar “projections” for public space

The moment you seek redress or pursue legal action to promote the absence of religious expression, censuring all others, you are seeking statutory domination of public thought (or the electromechanical expression of a worldview) by force.

If you take all that uncomfortable God Stuff out of “belief systems,” as atheists are wont to do, and boil it all down to cells in the body churning out diverse thoughts and feelings, which are molded by experience and culture to create protected projections of perceptions (as an individual right or as group rights through freedom of association), all such expressions that do not deny any other unalienable human right, whether we are comfortable around them or not, are entitled to equal rights of expression under the law.

Using the state to promote a preference for atheism while censuring all other forms of expression in public space is an act of establishment and a violation of the 1st Amendment to the US and (as far as I know) every state constitution.

State sanctioned atheism is primarily a 2oth century invention whose presence has coincided with socialism, communism, and Fascism.  It’s crusade has always ended in poverty, misery, starvation, war, political prisoners, executions, totalitarianism, and tyranny.  Hundred of millions have died under state sanctioned atheism.  Proponents would do well to realize that believing in nothing is still believing , and that there has never been a prosperous, free society in human history where Atheism has been forced upon the people by the state at the expense of all others.

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