Reply #75: Your attitude strikes me as somewhat defeatist. [View All]

[trotsky]

Sort of like "Oh well, people are gonna try to use their religion to take over goverment no matter what, so what's the use in opposing it?"

For the record, I don't think you have to "disenfranchise the faithful" to keep religion from having a role in deciding public policy. Personally deciding who to vote for, or (if you're an elected representative) which bills to vote for, is always going to be a decision that is going to involve religion for a religious believer, and there is no way in hell anyone should take what I'm saying as some kind of prohibition against that.

But of course people do, because it's much easier to attack that strawman evil atheist than it is to confront the real problems of religion and politics.