Am Is jerk if I don’t really care about all of this?

I have observed this for a while now.

I'm planning to take up a legal fight in the coming months to change my custody of my children. I found among the list of things judges will consider an extensive amount of information on the favor made by judges toward those who practice religion. It shouldn't be surprising, I suppose, because anything you find among the general public can be found in law as well, but still I was surprised that they would be so open about it. I will probably take measures to better hide my identity on this site in the near future because of this.

Lets look at it mechanically. Most Christian people want "freedom of religion" but not "freedom from religion." Their book and organizations tell them that the world is literally going to hell, and the only salvation is God. Someone who truly believes this must also desire everyone else think the same way, whether he/she admits it or not. That is the foundation of the bigotry that practically by definition must be there if you are someone who believes in that religion that strongly.

There are plenty of moderates and plenty of really nice people who have the "live and let live" mentality. But the church doesn't really teach that without giving a little wink on the side, and the fact that it no longer has the same political muscle it did 250 years ago is the only reason we're not all living under its thumb today.

Supporting the Freedom From Religion Foundation is a good way to keep church and state separate. It basically fights those legal battles on a daily basis. They usually win.

Christians use their religion to control, no different that Muslim Sharia Law. Not Muslim? you deserve to die. Not a believer? You have no rights and deserves to die.
Filling the courts with judges like the ones issuing these rulings has been the goal of many elected officials from the gop for a very long time and has been mostly ignored. That ignorance is coming home to roost.

SCOTUS 101: Prayer in Public Schools

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Freedom of religion includes freedom FROM religion. There must not be any legal bias in either direction.

That's a well written article. Thanks for posting it.

This is Christian Nationalism. Started by the southern fundamentalist douchbags after the civil rights act was enacted. There are many player forcing this twisted bullshit. Right now, Trump is their very broad paintbrush.

The two federal court decisions he cited seem to me to be obviously unconstitutional. I think this idea that Christianity is under attack goes back to rulings removing prayer from public schools. I often think what these idiots need is an actual attack on Christianity, to serve as a lesson and clamp down on their hyperbole, but... that could also backfire.

The only thing we can really do is fight for upholding state-church separation, so at least some semblance of balance is maintained, despite the fog of misinformation and propaganda from Christians. And on that front, these two federal court decisions are very troubling, and I hope they are being fought.

Um, this has been the game, using tax free dollars, especially since the 1950's.