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I'm not going to quote the wall of text earlier, but the distinction between "Freedom of Religion" versus "Freedom from Religion" is as close to spurious as can be without going over (which is the Price is Right Corollary, of course).
The entire concept of "no state-sponsored religion, no state sponsoring of one religion over others" can be taken, at a high level, to exclude essentially any religion or religious action on the part of the state. Since it would be impossible to be all-inclusive, the state is de facto secular as a result. NOTE: this is in the ideal; keep that in mind as you read.
Of course, that does not exclude everything that could be construed as religious, as the change in your pocket would attest to, should it earn itself a brain and the ability to speak.
(Particularly if you want to consider "atheism" a religion in and of itself, you've just steamed a poop onto the distinction yourself - congrats!)
Also let's not compare nations that don't even operate under the same governing principles to the US situation - it's like saying that, although it was marred by things like the Black Sox in 1919, the World Series can be instructive on how to play contract bridge.
EDITED because holy crap there are a lot of i's in "religious"
Last edited by KSig RC; 07-28-2011 at 04:55 PM.
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