On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9 August 2011 19:12, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Therefore, if religion is not considered while framing laws, these >> > laws impinge on one's religious beliefs. >> Not if the law is broad in what it allows, and narrow in what it >> compels or forbids. > How exactly do you apply your prescribed framework to not contradict the > belief that the universe is a few thousand years old and was created by god > over a week? Religionists are welcome to believe the universe is as old or as young as they like. Government funded schools will teach a curriculum that is not based on any one group's religious beliefs. Religionists are welcome to teach their children whatever they please. > Not spend tax payer money on space exploration, large > telescopes? Evolution and astronomy not being taught in schools or giving > these loons the ability to set up schools that don't teach it and take > society back a few hundred years? Ah, you are arguing based on the notion that the United States is a secular society. While that it nominally true, it obviously is not in practice and the US is the worse for it. -- Charles
