A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.

  • Jase@lemmy.world
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    The fact it’s had to go that far is psychotic. Country was founded on freedom of religion. What do the Christians do? “Oh this means freedom from other religions” and proceed to take systemically take everything over and force their religion down everyones throats. While at the same time claiming that the LGBTQ community is the ones doing the shoving.

    Single most dangerous cult on the planet is Christianity.

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      Absolutely. It’s hard to conceive of something that has been more damaging to society than Abrahamic religion.

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        No certain colonies were founded by zealots too fanatical for England and the Netherlands, the country was founded by slave owning wealthy people

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        Which is the line perpetuated by England and hardly based in reality.

        In reality they were pretty moderate Christians who just believed that religion was a private matter and the governments involvement in it was abhorrent. Did they use their religion to beat anyone to death who got in their way? Yeah. But so did everyone else. They were no more fanatical than the Church of England. They just had a different opinion of how religion should go about being made.

        They were fairly puritan however. That much is true. That’s why most of white North America freaks the hell out at seeing nipples on a woman in public.

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        Nope. This country was founded on the idea that weathly people shouldn’t have to pay their fair share of taxes.