Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Awful damn hard to be a pagan and a conservative in this country when our so-called "conservative party" apparently hates you.
As written, the bill does not exempt atheist students or those of different faiths from the requirement, though Thorpe has pledged to amend the measure. “In that we had a tight deadline for dropping our bills, I was not able to update the language,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Arizona Republic. “Even though I want to encourage all of our students to understand and respect our Constitution and constitutional form of government, I do not want to create a requirement that students or parents may feel uncomfortable with.”
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
I might be mistaken but some pagans have a definition of god that it completely different from what Christian think of, if I'm not mistaken. According to what I've been told, a god in paganism is a spirit entity the pagan creates in order to serve the pagan, which is almost the opposite of the Christian faith.
I'm not familiar with that definition of deity-- sounds like a New Age thing to me.
Your parenthetical is not appreciated-- as I noted, I am not atheist but pagan, an Ásatrúar, and I am devoutly religious. And yes, my faith absolutely does prohibit me from saying "So help me God" or swearing any other oath on the Judeochristian deity along with any other non-Germanic deity.
So when you do take an oath, if you ever have taken one, who do you call on to swear that you will adhere to that oath?
"If they succeed in establishing religion as a basic Republican Party tenet, they could do us in."
"By maintaining the separation of church and state,the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars . . . Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northem Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?"
-- Barry Goldwater
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