It is actually laying the foundation for a state religion. The state religion of atheism. People who don't follow the state religion cannot hold political office or own businesses. The state religion must be taught in school. All competing religions have to be scrubbed from the public eye. There is to be only the state religion.
And here we are dblack. The reason that you were asking for.
What you are essentially saying is that you should be able to supplant ‘science’ because that is somehow connected to your perceived ‘atheist’ religion with your own religious teachings. That is complete bullshit by the way. There is no atheist religion just as there is no atheist agenda in the schools. Even if there were, that does not give you a free hand to push your religion on others anyway.
It all comes down to this in the end: you NEED to call atheists religious in order to justify your need to push your agenda. Sorry, it is not going to fly.
Right. This agenda was promoted heavily by the Intelligent Design movement. The idea was to establish the teaching of evolution as an "atheist religious doctrine" and then demand that it either be prohibited, or that it be taught alongside ID as part of a comparative religions course or similar nonsense. It's been pursued lately as part of more general attack on separation of church and state.
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