Atheism and the First Amendment

The First Amendment is:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Note that it doesn't describe a "wall of separation" between religion and the Federal government only that the Federal government can't establish a specific religion, like the Church of England.

But today militant atheists are trying to establish atheism as an official state religion. Not all atheists are militant and the rest of this post is only about militant atheists not the tolerant atheists who don't mind Christianity showing up in the public square.

Atheism is a religion?  Yes indeed it is.

Atheism is a faith based belief system.  Atheists say that they lack a belief in God.  Lacking a belief in God means that they must believe that God is not necessary to explain anything we see in the world which in turn means that everything we see in the world must be explicable by purely materialistic processes.  Yet we don't know that that is true and science, because it's a process, doesn't tell us what it will or won't be able to explain.

Atheists may be right that God is unnecessary but they can't prove it to be true so they must accept it based on faith.

Atheists must believe that the Bible is wrong but they can't prove that to be true so they accept it based on faith.

According to Prof Hawking we can't have free will if there is no God because if that's the case then all our thoughts are simply brain chemistry which is controlled not by us but by the laws of physics. But atheists can't prove that what we all know goes on in our heads is bogus so they must accept, based on faith not facts, that we don't have free will.

But what about the fact that atheism lacks a god?  Well Buddhism lacks a god but everyone considers it to be a religion.  Essentially a religion is a faith based belief system which makes atheism a religion.

The problem is that atheists have been working hard, and very successfully, to drive all other religions out of the public square while ensuring that their faith is advocated by the government.

According to atheists a valedictorian can't voluntarily mention Jesus but he can mention Nietzsche an atheist paragon.  Similarly a teacher can't talk about Christ but he can talk about Dawkins, an atheist advocate.

Hedonism can be taught in sex ed but Christian morality can't be taught.

The list goes on.

Most people realize that atheists war on religion distorts the First Amendment which was designed to protect religious belief. 

But few people have realized that the atheists are actually going directly against the intent of the First Amendment by creating an officially state sponsored faith based belief system, namely atheism.

It's time to put a stop to this.  Instead of banning the Ten Commandments in Courtrooms while allowing quotes from atheists to be posted let's let local groups decide what faith based symbols are allowed.  In our country where the vast majority of people are Christians the majority of those symbols will be Christian but in parts of the country where other faiths are strong we'll see their symbols which is as it should be. The First Amendment was never intended to be a weapon to drive the faith of the majority out of the public square.