When There Is Peace Among Religions

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5. When one speaks of peace, aren't non-believers part of the interested parties?

Or maybe we should just shut up? Maybe we don't belong in a discussion about interreligious warfare? I would remind all religious here that in many of what might be called religious wars, non-believers are often the most persecuted.

It is precisely that to which I object. The extent to which non-believers are not included is the extent to which the problems are not all going to be addressed.

It is precisely the same arguments that the America is a Christian nation crowd make, that the freedoms in the First Amendment only apply to believers (maybe even just Christians, to listen to many of them). Of course anybody who has paid attention to the House and Senate debates during the adoption of the amendment would know that those specific phrasings were explicitly voted down and the only surviving one was the most liberal one, no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Here is where I stand. As a non-believer I have no other choice. Where would you draw the line?

As always I welcome your input as well as your respectful disagreements.