As an atheist, I certainly don't think the U.S. is turning into a theocracy. I do believe that religious groups are becoming more vocal, but this is matched by more vocal atheist groups. There are some things many atheists whine about that are really not important, like the "merry Christmas" things. What the hell is their problem? Keep in mind that while people in religious groups can be associated with their religious, the only way that atheists are associated with is lack of something, so atheists themselves are quite varied.
Others things mentioned such as the pledge are not too critical either. I don't see where it is "required" to say the full pledge. Cannot an atheist can simply pledge alliegance to the country during a pledge, instead of our country under god?
Some things are worrying, however, such as the increased "creation science" in school curriculums, which have no basis in actual science, and are quite, shall we say, misrepresentative of many science aspects.
Also a legitimate grievance mentioned in the movie was the fact that in some states, atheists can't hold public office or testify in court (I think these were the things, though I was eating when watching, so I might have misread something). Isn't this unconstitutional? What happened to "no taxation without representation"? Of course, this isn't to say atheists would actually be elected to anything beyond the local level, at least not anytime soon.
The court testimony ban strikes me as "red flag", however. Even in the most religious of states, there are a fair number of atheists. It is extremely likely that many of these have been called to court over the years. Have their testimonies really been rejected, or is this another archaeic, non-enforced law?
Finally, a few other comments:
Why must people continually refer to the founding fathers and their intent when dealing with many things such as religion? There are often many arguements and quotes to both sides, but they don't add up to anything. It is the constitution itself that actually matters. Unfortunately, the constitution is often unclear, and the supreme court uses this alot, which I would think is somewhat beyond what they should be. Unclear things should be really clarified by wording amendments, unless we "like" playing the interpretation game, which seems retarded.
I noted in the video that the main referances to violant religion were to Islam, which is satisfactory as it produces the most religious violance by a great margin.
Finally, I would like to reaffirm that while many atheists are stinking hippies, many are also regular people! Please focus critisism on the damn hippies. They are actually alot worse then you think! You imagine the horror of solstice celebrations, or mindlessly repetitive nature camps. I have seen these! But you do not acknowledge your own worst enemy, yourselves! By being anti-atheist, you force atheists to combine together, preventing other good atheists from properly dealing with the hippies from within!
Okay, sorry for that paragraph. I accidently started the Ur-Quan theme, so I had to write something relevant...
