There’s your problem in a nutshell, America.
What the fuck
Idaho….? Utah? Neutral, really?
Utah has been getting a ton of Californians moving in. Also, Mormons seem to believe the whole separation of church and school thing.
Lookit that. The states with religious indoctrination vs states with educational “indoctrination.”
What the fuck Michigan
If they want there is nothing stopping them from praying in school if they want, they just can’t compel others to do it with them.
That’s the thing. It’s not enough that they’re free to follow their religion, they need to force everyone else to follow it too.
The point of the establishment clause is that it shouldn’t matter what the majority says about religion. It should mean exactly nothing. Tyranny of the majority shouldn’t be allowed to make non-Christians into second class citizens.
That’s a lot of stupid morons who pretend to care about the constitution but don’t.
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
I love blazing saddles
That’s a lot of stupid morons who pretend to care about the
constitutionbible but don’t.Pretty much.
A map about people who paid attention in history and government class vs those who didn’t.
I didn’t need those classes to know forcing religion onto others is the exact opposite of what Jesus wanted
Exactly. Grew up Christian and it convinced me to be agnostic. Even then, I still would never add religious beliefs to the teaching of children early in life, when they clearly lack intelligent decision making skills.
Yeah, are you ever convinced as an agnostic? I thought, that was the point.
i’d say it’s totally logical to be 100% convinced that you can’t be convinced of god’s existence or non-existence
I think teaching about religion is fine and actually good for interacting with people outside your culture. Teaching of a specific religion is where you run into trouble.
I had a unit early on in school and another one in my early teens where we basically learned about the origins of a bunch of different religions and cultures surrounding them. Learned a lot about people that otherwise would seem unapproachable to me.
The United States had a good run. I hope I see the entire West Coast secede in my lifetime.
Repeal the 1st. It’s clear you can’t have religious freedom without it just allowing a theocracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
We shouldn’t ban religion, though–just institution.
Just make them pay taxes every time they get even close to talking about electoral politics.
I live in Michigan, and it’s anecdotal because I tend to surround myself with secular people, but I find this hard to believe.
Agreed, also live in Michigan, and not that I know EVERYONE in this state, I find it really hard to believe that the state as a whole would go for this.
Tax the church!
WTF RI?
How was the research conducted? Their website talks about the sample size, but I didn’t see how respondents were selected. They claim it’s representative of the national population, but if they’re cold-calling random people to ask the questions, I can almost guarantee there are going to be more older people responding because younger people tend not to answer unknown phone calls.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-methodology/
A total of 205,100 sampled addresses were mailed survey invitations. Respondents were given a choice to complete the survey online, by mail, or by calling a toll-free number and completing the survey over the phone with an interviewer. Of the 36,908 U.S. adults who completed the survey, 25,250 did so online, 10,733 did so by mail, and 925 did so by phone.
It goes on to say the results were then weighted to get a representative demographic sample, e.g. if more older people answered, younger responders would count for more.
I can tell you right now that there is a vast majority of people that are too poor or too scared to participate for any of this to be accurate.
