Government and Politics - The Atheist Civil-Liberty Union :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

The Atheist Civil-Liberty Union The American Civil Liberties Union has a public agenda, and that agenda bug outs to be this to make the United States in all her public manifestations reflect an atheists view of the nations founding and continuing existence. Is it item 84 on the ACLUs published agenda that calls for the elimination of In God We Trust from our coins? Under God must also be torn from the Pledge of Allegiance. The Commandments given Moses must never appear as public symbols. This nation must so thoroughly appear to be atheist in public as to be, in fact, and for all possible purposes, atheist in all public spheres. The sweet air of liberty must be replaced with an invisible gas that detects, exterminates, and suffocates any breath that would expel a religious word in public life. Publicly, religion must be completely repressed, so that soon only atheists pull up stakes find the public halo comfortable. The accommodation this nation long ago reached between bel ievers and nonbelievers must be abandoned. Religion shall be banned from all public appearances under government auspices, until it is totally squeezed down into private life, underground. There, harmless, it can survive as long as it may. Ideally, some atheists have written and many have heavily implied, religion will perish forever. Its vanishing will free the planet from divisiveness, intolerance, hatred, persecution, and the desire to sweep alternative views from public existence. Secularism, the worlds best hope for tolerance, will then rule triumphant, sweetly, having driven its foes from any inch of public existence. To save the world from intolerance, the ACLU must be rigorously intolerant. Atheism is a long-term project. It is not completed when one ceases believing in God. It is necessary to carry it through until one empties from the world all the conceptual space once filled by God. One must also, for instance, abandon the assent that the events, phenomena, and laws of the world we live in (those of the whole universe) cohere, belong together, have a unity. What is born from chance may be ruled by chance, quite insanely. roughly atheists one meets, however, take up a position rather less rigorous. To the big question - Did the world of our experience, with all its seeming intelligibility and laws, come into existence by chance, or by the action of an agent that placed that intelligibility there in the first place?