Compels me

Monday October 24, 2005 - 11:01AM EDT

For whatever reason I start reading a bit on the Free Exercise Clause in the first ammendment and came across a few summaries of Supreme Court decisions. One recent one (2004) involved the decision to uphold a Washington State decision to restrict state scholarship money from people pursuing a religious degree. In other words if you get this certain scholarship you can't pursue a degree in theology with the money. If you do you get no money. Make a joyful noise. I'm glad that fucking kid who tried to pull that shit lost. What a loser. Got a scholarship and wanted to waste tax dollars on theology. Damn fool.

This makes me really think about the dynamic between freedom of religion and seperation of church and state. It is such a brillant idea but who was to forsee the collisions of it over the years. Both seemed to be of paramount importance to the framers of the constitution. When they do collide people take a side. I'd like to think that the founding fathers would hold seperation of church and state always higher because of the deeper philosophical effects. That they would see any blow to seperation as a double blow to freedom of religion.

As for me personally. I'd like to give religion a one way ticket from the tip of my boot to the core of the sun. Damn fools. My hope is that these wacky religious beliefs are eliminated by natural selection of sorts. In other words those crazy beliefs lead to the detriment of the believers so that eventually they just die out. I think it happens already anyway. As long as technology continues to advance and the population grows to force advancement those "believers" are the ones who are going to die out and the "non-believers" are the ones who will survive.