Reply #85: You're correct. I meant our government is designed to be secular humanist. [View All]

[JohnOneillsMemory]

You are absolutely right about that important clarification.

While some may wish the White House to be the Taliban with a Department of Virtues and Vices, they are supposed to accept the limits described in the Constitution and spend their own time trying to convince men to imprison women at a grass-roots level.

(In practice, they don't accept the law and ignore it. That is, they simply ignore the Constitution and act with impunity. Unindicted criminals control the injustice system, Congress, and the bully pulpit called the mainstream media.)

It is up to us to prevent and denounce the 'election' of people who espouse values we abhor and teach others how those people have always controlled power in this country and institutionalized atrocity in policies of poverty and violence in contradistinction to their own claims of 'virtue.'

If only there were a way to seperate in the public's mind the teachings of a very kind and wise man named Jesus from the rest of the Bible the way Thomas Jefferson did. We would all be safer and happier IMHO...

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
--Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
-- Thomas Paine

"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."
-- Henry Louis Mencken

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
If that is granted, all else follows."
--George Orwell in 1984