Spyke
lemmy.world

They should drop all of them, because Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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lemmy.world

Hot take: The "no prohibiting the free exercise of religion" rule should be updated to "religion should be practiced free as long as it does not seek to subvert democratic institutions, or infringe other people's human rights". Anything else will lead to the slow and painful death of secularism.

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slrpnk.net

Yeah, we need to crack down on religion because they're oppressing people who want nothing to do with them

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blargh513reply
sh.itjust.works

Start a church. They're tax exempt. In fact, I don't even think that the IRS is permitted to audit them.

It's on my to-do list. Beyond being tax free, you can go out and solicit donations, you can fundraise in a variety of ways, I'll bet you could get "clergy" passes for parking or any number of conveniences.

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Exactly. Either all known religions have to be part of this list, or none of them.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

You mean that piece of paper Trump wipes his ample ass with?
Sorry, there's a long brown stain covering that amendment now.

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piefed.social

This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.

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jaybonereply
lemmy.zip

lol how are you going to exclude atheists.

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Rhynoplazreply
lemmy.world

They did leave "No Religion" as an option, I think that still applies.

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BillyClarkreply
piefed.social

Looking at that list, there are many that I'm not familiar with, but Wicca is definitely a religion, isn't it? Maybe they left "Wicca" in the list and removed specific types of Wicca? It's not completely clear, but anyways, if they completely removed Wicca, then a Wiccan wouldn't have a way to answer.

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lemmy.ml

Ah the Trump covid testing strategy. If you don't look for cases then they will simply not exist.

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daanniireply
lemmy.world

Lawsuits are , unfortunately, the only way things get fixed in this country.

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We can reduce that even further: money is the only way things get fixed in this country.

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