We're not all forum warriors with tactics you know. Planned? I don't plan these things out I just post and respond. Your "tactics" are very well planned though; very well thought out. That's why your posts are so incredibly boring and unoriginal. You're like every idiot I've ever come across all rolled into one person. That's why I ignore you until you can't resist ignoring me. The same pattern, the same result: I post, you ignore me again because you have nothing further to add than the initial pseudo-philisophical outburst.
You're entitled to your opinion though, however flawed it may be. Do me a favour and crawl back under your rock though because it's too much effort having three morons attacking me in one thread. Having said that the thread is over anyway now that we're all in agreement.
Why is it that when debating with you, it always drags off-topic into a swirling pit of argumentative, infantile foolishness? I can often disagree with people and have an intelligible debate with them without it degenerating into useless squabble (see earlier in this thread: I was debating with midnight, but I still love that motherfucker), and yet you always seem to move the thread into a nosedive. Learn how to debate, for God's sakes. But I suppose that the "thread is over" because obviously "you won the debate" a long time ago, you are free to leave.
Don't expect respect from me for doing so, though.
Kidding aside, the problem with your logic is that the constitution gives provisions regarding the protection of religious freedoms, and does not specify what constitutes a religion. Do you really trust the United States government to define what is a real religion, and what is not? Are you comfortable with them saying that Christianity is the only true religion, everything else is a cult, and cults don't need to be given any protection in the context of the first amendment? Are you really comfortable with that?
Of course you aren't. So unless you are prepared to allow the first amendment protection of religious freedom to be completely meaningless, you have to allow anything with a remote claim to being a religion to be just as valid as anything else. So yes, Scientology, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Unicornism, and Last Thursdayism all have to be as valid as Christianity when it comes to their being respected by government institutions, public schools are government institutions, and students are required by law to be there.
I think Skeptical had a great point here that was maybe glossed over.
Indeed, it's best we get back onto the topic. I was trying to convey this point, too, though I'd wager skeptical scientist summed it up far more concisely.
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