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.

  • NotASucker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The United States was founded by people who were already upset they couldn’t be as fanatical/evangelical as they wanted.

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      1 year ago

      No, a few North American colonies were founded by people who were already upset they couldn’t be as fanatical/evangelical as they wanted.

      The United States was founded mostly by Deists and folks influenced by Enlightenment philosophy, several hundred years later.