Separation of Atheism and State

All goverment, all law is built on the assumption that life, death, comfort, or suffering of human individuals is important. Ultimately, this is a religious belief.

It is perfectly logical to believe the opposite, that humans are entirely a collection of atoms and molecules, and the difference between a functioning human body and an equivalent chunk of wood is relatively unimportant. They both burn. No laboratory experiment can determine that human suffering is important.

Most humans believe that human life and comfort is important, it is something they instinctively hold as true. There are a few, however, who do not. There is no point in trying to debate with these individuals, there is no way to prove that they are wrong. They believe that only their individual feelings are real or important. They have a tendency to kill other humans, and society tends to label them as psychopaths, and lock them up or execute them. They are they only true, real Atheists.

People who call themselves Atheists, but still speak and act as if human life and comfort are important, are actually professing some sort of religion. They may deny the existence of a individual corporate God, but they obviously don't believe that a human is roughly equivalent to a chunk of wood. They don't believe that it is just a matter of particles interacting. They don't believe that those particles have the same value after being crushed by a car. They don't believe that pain is just a pattern of electrical signals without real significance. They believe there is some kind of magic or presence or conciousness in that human body, experiencing joy, or sadness, or pain, or death.

When driving, it is irrational to slow down and let another car merge in front of you. Doing so will not help you acheive your goals in any way. To do so is to to believe, irrationally, without proof of any kind, that there is an individual conciousness driving the other car, empathize with their goals, and believe that those goals are important enough to impose upon your goals.

Atheists often deny this belief. Many claim to believe only in what can be seen and proven, so as to attain special political status. They don't want to be classed as "another religion", and a pretty non-specific one at that. They prefer to be listed as "reasoning people", instead of "believing people".

But people who "believe in only what can be proven" cannot view other individuals as real. They cannot form relationships. They cannot participate in society. They cannot empathize with other's pain. They can only move toward whatever objective they have decided to pursue. These psychopaths do exist.

Humanism is a religious stance, in theory and in practice. Those that practice humanism are believers in something, they just don't know exactly what. There are no 'Secular Humanists', that phrase is an oxymoron.

Our human physiology and psychology allows our concious mind to believe and focus on one idea, while our emotions and actions reveal we are founded entirely in something else. A person who purports to be 'entirely rational' may display honor, integrity, and common decency, without realizing that doing so denies his/her argument. Ask a humanist, do you believe saving lives and alleviating suffering is important? Can you prove it?

All government, all law, is built on the assumption that life, death, comfort, or suffering of human individuals is important. Persons who actually believe that individuals have no value beyond their usefulness should not make laws, interpret laws, or enforce laws. Laws built on Atheist thought enforce special interest viewpoints, do not fit in a consistent overall pattern, are amoral, capricious, and destructive.

It is perfectly valid, in fact necesary, to base law on shared religious ground. The only reasonable viewpoints in political debate are those that believe, and admit, that a human life is more, and more important, than a chemical reaction.

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