Benway over at Arizona Watch starts out posting about the recent ruling regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, and manages to state quite clearly why people who don't believe in God, can still believe in religion.
A certain fringe of leftists and radical atheist libertarians would have the concept of god never surface in political thought. That position is not only naive, it is dangerous.There is quite a discussion in the comments, as well. I have been meaning to post something along these lines, but I am a confirmed procrastinator. Posted by Vox at September 29, 2005 01:29 PM | politicsReligion plays an important part in our politics and culture. A vast majority of people have some belief in god, and as an atheist, I don't begrudge that belief. The end result of the ethics of religion largely overlap those of my own ethics of reason. They are rooted very differently, but in the end, they agree more than disagree.
The danger of removing god from political discourse is that, inevitably, god is replaced by the State. This was the whole point of Marxist atheism, and it is still the thrust of those leftists who would purge god from US politics.