Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming

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Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming - Lemmy.world

A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.

The fact it’s had to go that far is psychotic. Country was founded on freedom of religion. What do the Christians do? “Oh this means freedom from other religions” and proceed to take systemically take everything over and force their religion down everyones throats. While at the same time claiming that the LGBTQ community is the ones doing the shoving.

Single most dangerous cult on the planet is Christianity.

yeah, it seems what they meant is freedom to be a christian without the pope and absolutely nothing else. no nonbelievers, no non-abrahamics, hell, not even any abrahamic believers who believe in other religions. protestant, mormon, or cringe catholic, take your pick or go to literal hell.

and the best part is when they use the excuse of religious freedom as a shield for their bigotry. like i’m sorry, if your holy book literally calls for gays to be stoned to death that’s a call to violence, it doesn’t deserve to be protected or tolerated.

No, what they meant was freedom to worship whatever religion you please.

It’s the people who have come since that have corrupted it. And recently too. If you go back to the 70s or 80s, religious tolerance was pretty common in both political parties. One of those just has happened to shift violently to the right, and I mean violently. In doing so they’ve weaponized their religion and are now twisting the words of the constitution.

Didn’t people make a big deal over jfk running for president because he was Catholic?