There is no such ban and atheists are as free to not believe in a God as you are free to believe in one. You seem to think Christian "rights" supercede other rights? I assure you, they do not.
Preventing Christians from coercing others to pray and not violating the separation of church and state isn't relgious persecution. Your religious rights stop where the equal secular and religious rights of others become involved.
Wow, so Atheism doesn't reject God just so-called claims of God. This sophistry proposes a difference without a distinction. Atheists reject the Bible yet don't reject the God it documents. Preposterous.
Zero evidence of coercion. Zero evidence of attempting to establish a State religion. Other than that, brilliant post.
Objective evidence doesn't rely on faith and belief. It is testable and provable as fact, regardless of a person's religious beliefs. You didn't have any.
He is a coach and the players are expected to follow his lead. That is religious coercion when he is on duty by the state as a coach.
So much vitriol --- so much disinformation/misinformation --- so much disdain for that/those which you clearly do not understand. IOWs--- A 'you' problem I'm so very glad isn't a 'me' problem.
Pretty significant evidence of the potential for coercion
Where is the evidence for God? Why should atheists, or anyone else for that matter, simply accept any claims for God or the notion of God itself without evidence?
This is one of your more nonsensicial absurdist replies.
The coach isn't praying in the locker room.
I note the abscence of any attempt to defend the sophistry.
His job isn't as a chaplain. He should not be praying publically on the job where the players can see him. He is a secular coach. Matthew 6:6-7. Jesus told people not to pray in public. Maybe the coach should take the hint, or is obeying the gospels also a violation of his religious beliefs?
You have absolutely no objective evidence for any creator deity and you know it. That is why you are trying to deflect now.
No, the wall of separation has no purpose but to ban religious expression except atheism.
Not praying where the players can see the coach? That's true religious freedom. Not.
I stand corrected. I should have noted the coach no longer is praying in the locker room making the question moot.
For the umpteenth time---Atheism is NOT a "religion". FAIL PAIL.
Our religious freedoms are the right to worship on his own time and the right to believe. Religious freedom is not unlimited and is very obviously not part of his job. The state is not endorsing atheism. The state is instead of keeping all religions out of public schools as per the separation of church and state to be absolutely neutral on the issue of religion. He is a state actor and such religion is not part of his job description. If that idea is intolerable to him he can work somewhere else.
The separation of chich and state does not support atheism because that would not be separate. I am a Humanist and the state cannot support humanism (atheists) because that would also be a violation of the Establishment Clause. The separation of church and state is to keep all religion or the lack of religious belief out of the actions of the government and the use of taxpayer dollars.
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You clearly do not understand what the separation of church and state means. Religious expression is not being purged. That's just hyperbolic paranoia.
You clearly didn't offer any explanation in response to the documented instances of government persecution targeting Christianity presented in my post. Instead, you clearly generated bombastic accusations with nothing supporting them, clearly.
Knock off the paranoia. There is no targeting of Christianity because people of other religions weren't permitted to do what he was forbidden to do. that public relgious display during a public school event was forbidden by all religions equally
Where is the evidence other religions were forbidden from public prayer?
I just listened to the entire audio. The word "atheist" is not mentioned one time. It was the school, the school superintendent, and the school district that took issue with what this coach did ---not atheists---not any non-Christian religious sect/denomination. He broke school policy of his own accord 'after' being told to cease and desist, and then started pissing and moaning when the school district admonished him for breaking school/school district policy he was well aware existed. Appears like your angst and vitriol over this issue is severely misguided.