More could be said about the complicated flows of Americans from one religion or nonreligion to another, but we close this section by noting one final implication of what we have learned. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Critics call it a back-door attempt to replay old battles about including biblical creationism or intelligent design in science curricula, a point defenders reject based on a clause that the law “shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine … or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is not logically possible for the government both to be neutral between religion and nonreligion and to give religion special protection. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Religion is just another target for our own faults, but then if you are so much of a fanatic about your nonreligion as some people are about their religion, nothing is gained. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By requiring government to accommodate religious , prescriptions but not nonreligious personal choices, the Free Exercise Clause necessarily requires, and therefore permits, government to favor relion over nonreligion in precisely the way Prodessor Somin objects to — permitting religious people to make selections that meet religious needs while not permitting selections not related to a religious “exercise”. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Establishment Clause “mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Hence, those 40 years suggest more strongly than can any set of formulaic tests that few individuals, whatever their system of beliefs, are likely to have understood the monument as amounting, in any significantly detrimental way, to a government effort to favor a particular religious sect, primarily to promote religion over nonreligion, to engage in any religious practice, to compel any religious practice, or to work deterrence of any religious belief .... ❋ Unknown (2006)
This is a demographic disaster for religion because most children pick up their religion or nonreligion from their fathers, and a given generation retains its level of religiosity through life. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We will not officially endorse or establish religion — either one specific religion, or the idea of religion over nonreligion. — ❋ Unknown (2005)
The Air Force issued new religion guidelines to its commanders yesterday that caution against promoting any particular faith – or even “the idea of religion over nonreligion” – in official communications or functions like meetings, sports events and ceremonies. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Watts led seminars at Esalen in the early 1960s about such topics as Buddhism, Hinduism, theosophy, and “the religion of nonreligion.” ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)
What of the argument that the statute privileges religion over nonreligion? ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
"The touchstone for our analysis is the principle that the First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion," Justice David H. Souter wrote for the majority. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
The touchstone for our analysis is the principle that the First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Secularization is the wonderful mechanism by which religion becomes nonreligion. ❋ Allan Bloom (2003)
In the chaos of this rudderless age state and church are making desperate efforts to palliate the evils of nonreligion and its consequence, non-morality. ❋ Victor Mapes (1906)
"Ultimately, it's unjust to exclude individuals from basic economic, civic and political opportunities of our society on the basis of religion or nonreligion, and it's important that Kagan acknowledge that those that don't believe in God should be protected just as any individual who is religious." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Read the bill for yourself here, especially Section 1D, which emphatically states that the law "shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion." ❋ Unknown (2009)
