VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1371720479|CONTENT|More aching stupidity from the religious who cannot (will not?) see that the removal of a religion’s privileged position is not the same as an attack on religion. Nobody, not anyone at all, is suggesting that Girl Guides cannot be religious, or that they have to leave their god at the door, or that they must be an atheist to join. The opposing position to an affirmation of service to god in the oath is an affirmation that there is no god. These are the two equivalent positions. Butler would be frothing at the mouth if the latter had been adopted, despite it being equivalent in every way to the existing oath, just from the opposite point-of-view.

As said yesterday, the religious seem to know intuitively that their argument is so catastrophically pathetic that it will wither and die without massive special treatment. Nobody is teaching atheism to the Girl Guides. Nobody needs to.

As for his comparison of teaching religion to teaching road safety, the two are only the same if we are talking about the danger of being run over by imaginary cars.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.108, 217.36.222.79, 10.37.37.202|MODERATIONFLAG|