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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
Is state-sponsored censorship less harmful than state-sponsored endorsement?
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I don't define secularism as "state-sponsored censorship". Instead, secularism is the precondition for protecting against religiously sponsored censorship.
and btw, secularism is a principle laid down in your nation's first amendement in the Bill of Rights.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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The state should guarantee the free practice of religion (which is okay with me as long as that practice does not require me to a.) witness or b) participate in it, or c) to compromise my own freedom in favour of it - an individual's freedom ends where he/she starts to limit the freedom of others inf avour of their own). But from that can not be concluded that the state/ congress shall act in favour of rfelgious establoishements, or pass laws favouring any religion's demands and interests. And that is not just a conclusion, but is written there black on white.