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Originally Posted by analog
They didn't "claim" anything. America was created because of the idea of a separation of church and state, specifically so that those living here could be free to worship whomever they chose (or not worship anyone at all). It's not that some "western nations" distorted the otherwise normal combination of church and state; they intentionally cleaved the two apart.
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Hear hear!
For those who wish to think an atheist's moral conscience is the same thing as religious guidelines, fine, interchange them if you wish
......but there is no way I'm going to believe in the ever present religious fairy tales.....thats just plain silly imo. So.....I'll go with my atheistic moral conscience.
