Echoes said:
How surprising atheists are fighting for repressing freedom of cult... All the values that shaped our civilisation, they want away with them.
They will never find any popular support for each of their battle because they despise people.
Worst thing is that in France, for example, you can't have a cross in public school, women can't wear veils in school (just as in Belgium) but Jews are allowed to celebrate Hanooka, on public places.
Some communities seem to get preferential treatments from atheists. It seems that Judaism is not a religion (which I think is correct, it's an ideology.)
The idea with the crosses in the schools, as in Italy (where legislation to remove them was not successful, such is the preponderance of the Vatican), is simply connected to a fortuitous separation of church and state. Why should I have to subject my children to the religious symbols of others in the public domain?
They are for places of worship, which none are denied from the state...to the contrary. While it isn't the state's business to promote one faith over the others, as if it were the official religion that by its very nature doesn't have. Rather the state's public role in the matter should simply be that of a neutral and unbiased bystander, whose only prerogative before the people is to safeguard the egalitarian principles guaranteed by the constitution.
And how are public displays of Jewish religious festivals, any different from those of Christians or Muslims? Excuse me but your sectarian bias bellies a hostile attitude that’s so typical among your group.
The point is that it shouldn’t be the state's prerogative in modern, secular Western democracy to publicize the religiosity of any group within the lay context of its institutions. That some religious are scandalized by this...well, go live in a theocracy, or else content oneself in being at full liberty to take access to one’s own private places of worship.
Perhaps one day humanity can go beyond the prepotency of the religious institutions and learn to get along better, which would certainly be a good thing, While it is equally certain that the great monotheistic religions have caused just the opposite effect, which is genetic.
On the other hand banning Muslim girls from wearing veils in public schools is an official act of State racism that is repugnant, for it should also mean that Christian children must not don crosses at school, or Jewish boys kippahs. However, this is a private matter that has nothing to do with the external issue of a state institution hanging a religious symbol in its halls. It is thus a question of public decorum that's not to be confused with personal liberty as France has done. The two can, and must, coexist. In other words the state must remain neutral in matters regarding the public decorum of its own spaces, over which it has every legitimate juristiction, and not get into the private business of those who frequent them of which it has no authority beyond cases of discrimination, or acts against others incolmuty or property. The wearing of veils, however, does not fit within this criteria.
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