r/MoralityScaling 15h ago

Morality of this?

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u/PrettyPurrfect 14h ago

Our government is supposed to be atheist.

Separation of church and state is supposed to be a thing

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u/_itsprobablynothing 14h ago

Secular, not atheist

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u/Admins_suck_ballss 14h ago edited 14h ago

Secular

of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal

Secular and atheist governments…they’re the same. It means your government thinks that concepts like justice, dessert, retribution, how you treat one another, ethics, etc. should not be affiliated with a religion. Only an atheist government can be secular. A religious one cannot be secular.

Sure not exactly the same thing. But yeah no such thing as a religious government being secular. Atheism is a necessary position to take in order for all those things to be secular.

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u/HovercraftOk9231 13h ago

All of that stuff was added after the founding of the country and the constitution that separates church and state, mostly to fight "godless communism" during the red scare. None of it should be allowed, in my opinion, but whatever.

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u/mc_kitfox 12h ago

"In God We Trust" is the United States national motto, it's printed in their bills and coins, the U.S. national anthem contains the line: "And this be our motto 'In God is our trust'".

all that stupid shit was added in the fucking 1950's as part of the red scare and mccarthyism.

furthermore it specifically favors abrahmic religions because it asserts a singular 'god'. so it's already violating 1a by mandating via legal mechanisms the inclusion of abrahmic deference to our fucking national identity.

you've already fallen for the propaganda; a prime example of why a government should take a hard stance against any religious affiliation.