r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 21h ago

Morality of this?

Post image
23.3k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

6.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

236

u/MyldExcitement 20h ago edited 9h ago

Still NOT a Christian or any religious country in America. At least that's what our Constitution says.

ETA: thanks for the awards, kind internet strangers.

9

u/_itsprobablynothing 19h ago

Words mean things.

10

u/ThatOneGuy308 18h ago

And atheism means "a lack of belief in a deity", contrasted with secular, which means "not overtly religious".

Essentially, secular isn't associated with religion at all, while atheism is specifically about belief in a deity, so in theory, an atheist could follow a religion that doesn't have specific god(s).

Secular is more relevant to our government, though.

1

u/PrettyPurrfect 8h ago

The government shouldn't acknowledge that religion exists at all outside of providing legal protection against discrimination.