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In article <65878@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0418c@prism.gatech.EDU (Shane Wm. McWhorter) writes:
>I hope it is OBVIOUS to the other readers of this group that I do
>not have something against "Christianity," but something against
>a government agency enforcing with a police force, the religious
>beliefs of others.

Okay, let me try to understand your point.  Because the law stipulates
Sunday, then you assume that the law is there because of the religious
belief of others.  If the law said Monday, then I guess we would not be
having this discussion, right?

You keep making the same assumption, that the law was imposed by
"some religious zealots trying to take away your fun" (my intrepretation,
not your words), without any evidence for that assumption except that the
day in question is on Sunday.

Another point I meant to make before, but will make now. Since you don't
want someone else's religion imposed upon you, what do you define
'religion' as?

- Webster New Collegiate has 4 definations including "a cause, principle,
or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith".  Would you exclude
any of the following from being a religion?

   - Christianity - the religion derived from Jesus Christ based on the
                    Bible as sacred scripture
   - Satanism - obsession with or affinity for evil
   - Humanism - a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human
                interests or values
   - Atheism - the doctrine that there is no diety

I could argue that these are all religions.  Which one do you not want
imposed upon you.  Do you not want Atheism imposed on you?  If you went
to public school you could not bring a Bible, or pray openly.  Satanists
feel that their "rights" are being imposed because our laws limit their
ability to do evil.  Atheists want God removed from our laws, even
though the Bill of Rights reference God several times.

The point I want to make is that everyone has a set of beliefs
and principles that they hold to and that all laws are based on someone
beliefs of what's right/fair/proper.  So there is no way to not have
someone's "religious" beliefs imposed upon yourself.  Unless you wish to
become a dictator :-)

Owen Alexander