From: ghost_of_morphy@hotmail.com   
      
   "Dissident"  wrote in message   
   news:3FDB9154.4040603@7600.net...   
   > Morphy's ghost wrote:   
   > > To sum up this rather lengthy rant, Americans have a freedom of   
   religion,   
   > > not a freedom from religion.   
   >   
   > All right.  Let's say for argument's sake I accept this bullshit   
   > definition.  So, I believe in God.  But my God is very distant,   
   > so distant that he has no effective connection with anything   
   > happening in the universe today, or at any time in the measurable   
   > past.  Further, he created nothing, for there was nothing to create.   
   > I have no contact with him, take no action to worship him, do not   
   > pray to him, in fact do not think of him as a "him".  But I still   
   > believe in him, so technically at least I have a religion, even   
   > though in fact it's the null religion.   
      
   You don't even need to believe in a God to have a religion.  There aren't   
   too many religions that don't have Gods, but there are a few......   
   >   
   > That's what that "no freedom from religion" argument leads to.   
   >   
   > Next thing, we'll be hearing the First Amendment guarantees only   
   > the right to freely have a political position, but you must have   
   > one, you cannot be positionless.  The First Amendment does not   
   > guarantee you freedom from speech.   
      
      
   It doesn't.  If you don't like what I say, try to shut me up.  You'll find   
   that the First Amendment protects my right of freedom of speech, but not   
   your right of freedom from speech.   
      
      
     Yeah, right.   
   >   
      
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