Excellent video. I'd like to see more. Your point about schools is well taken. You might want to check out the School Sucks pod casts, or Freedomain Radio pod casts (stefbot on youtube).
As an atheist, I have no problem with religious observance and displays being forbidden from publicly owned property, and saying it's a nannystate issue misses the point that my tax dollars fund those properties, and possibly those events and displays.
If someone wants to see those displays, put them on their own property. If someone wants to have religious observance in their children's school, go to a private religious school.
The Constitution is godless. Our gov't should be too.
@ranthonysteele Maybe you missed the point of the video - the Nanny State wants children to believe that government is god. Maybe we could agree that the government shouldn't indoctrinate children no matter who's views are being taught.
The 1st amendment guarantees free expression of religion, not the suppression of it. The Constitution isn't anti-God. It prohibits Congress from making laws that interfere with the free expression of religion. Free speech should be allowed on public property.
@lancek1993 ...and that means that groups like FFRF can add their non-religious statements in display areas, and all the farcical displays *must* also be allowed. I get it, it's free speech. Sometimes it's better to not say anything on a particular subject, in order that you don't invite comments on subjects that you find irrelevant.
I don't agree with the argument in principal, concerning a sentient *nannystate*. It's a radical oversimplification.
Excellent video. I'd like to see more. Your point about schools is well taken. You might want to check out the School Sucks pod casts, or Freedomain Radio pod casts (stefbot on youtube).
EdgeMugga 1 year ago
As an atheist, I have no problem with religious observance and displays being forbidden from publicly owned property, and saying it's a nannystate issue misses the point that my tax dollars fund those properties, and possibly those events and displays.
If someone wants to see those displays, put them on their own property. If someone wants to have religious observance in their children's school, go to a private religious school.
The Constitution is godless. Our gov't should be too.
-RAS
ranthonysteele 1 year ago
@ranthonysteele Maybe you missed the point of the video - the Nanny State wants children to believe that government is god. Maybe we could agree that the government shouldn't indoctrinate children no matter who's views are being taught.
The 1st amendment guarantees free expression of religion, not the suppression of it. The Constitution isn't anti-God. It prohibits Congress from making laws that interfere with the free expression of religion. Free speech should be allowed on public property.
lancek1993 1 year ago
@lancek1993 ...and that means that groups like FFRF can add their non-religious statements in display areas, and all the farcical displays *must* also be allowed. I get it, it's free speech. Sometimes it's better to not say anything on a particular subject, in order that you don't invite comments on subjects that you find irrelevant.
I don't agree with the argument in principal, concerning a sentient *nannystate*. It's a radical oversimplification.
ranthonysteele 7 months ago