It's funny how the blue section is better suited as a response to your own comments.
Maybe you should take a dose of your own advice.

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I don't see the problem. Nobody took their right to have a bible. The air force is just not making sure one is in the room. So what? It is not the militaries business to make sure bibles are in a room. What if I like TV guide or Playboy. Should the air force be required to have them in a room also? The stuff folks get worked up about

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Not true! This might well be true for Agnosticism , but Atheism is a faith-based belief system about the ultimate nature of existence. It's faith-based, because logic can't prove that something doesn't exist. Thus Atheism, especially in it's aggressive strains, is a religion.

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"Sometimes, the source of the beautiful dawning light that drives back the darkness, is your house burning"

Atheists don't say that 'something' doesn't exist. There is nothing faith based about it in the slightest. Neither is it a belief system. Atheism is the LACK of a belief system.

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That's why the term is inadequate to describe many of them, since so many go beyond just mere lack of belief, into OPPOSING belief. They're really often anti-theists.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand???

I don't oppose belief. I just don't think the government has any business supporting one. It crosses a line into theocracy.

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Where does this "in its agressive strains" goalpost-moving come in? By your fiat?

Nobody has to give any credence for something for which there is no evidence. Not believing is not a "not-believing belief." Or do you not understand how logic and simple definitions work?

(Your definition of atheism, btw, is not supported by any non-religiously-based dictionary. Suck it up.)

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"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

Atheism, in its PURE form, is indeed a 'lack-of' state. An absence of belief. But that is only in its pure form, if that's even truly possible. My experience is that these people often tend to fill that vacancy of a belief system with a form of prejudice toward the very thing they claim a lack of belief toward. They therefore cross that line between mere "lack of" to a distinct "anti" ideology. We see that all the time in these forums, BTW. And in doing so, they undercut atheism itself, ironically. Because a TRUE atheist would care less what people believe since there's nothing out there anyway. I've even heard a few HONEST and PURE atheists admit that religion can be a good thing because it provides a source of community and hope to bereaved people, for instance.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand???

Indeed.

While I agree there are certainly anti-theists out there, without a doubt, I fear you might be confusing two different things. Most atheists do indeed not give a **** what other people believe... UNTIL their beliefs begin to affect US by way of legislation or other intrusions into our personal freedoms and choices.

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No, rivrrat, you obviously do not know what's going on.
For some Christian, they understand what most atheists think better than the atheists themselves.


On another level, IMO the discussion trying to paint a significant number of atheists as being horribly oppressive is b.s.
I can quote example after example showing how Christians discriminating against atheists occurs publicly and with major support.
There was a poll not long ago about people rejecting an atheist presidential candidate.
"If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be …, would you vote for that person?"
When ... was replaced with "atheist", the results were:
45% Yes
53% No

So over half of this nation (comprised primarily by Christians) would reject an atheist who who actually received the party nomination and who was "generally well-qualified"...
The implications of this being that the person involved would either vote for the OPPOSING party, or simply not vote at all. Just cause the candidate is atheist...

Yet some Christians complain about how discriminatory and awful atheists are while ignoring their own side of the equation which is worse (IMO)...

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