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Originally Posted by zeek
This is basically the argument of Francis Schaeffer that secular humanism is religion. As you have framed it, it's an argument against the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and as such an argument against religious freedom. Perhaps it's impossible to be a Christian partisan and a small d democrat at the same time. If this is the way Christians think their only limits will be scriptural supports for subjection to authority or and the rule of law. Pluralism will always be an affront to the absolute truth they believe that only they possess.
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What is impossible is to pretend that your beliefs and values don't shape your politics.
Likewise, it is ridiculous to say that an atheist doesn't worship something or is somehow immune from religion or that "freedom of religion" implies that the constitution supports atheism.