The Impaler's Wall

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

Mr.  Linden writes: 
 
There is no religion of "Paganism".  "Pagans" are defined by what they are 
NOT. (And as a poster on Magicknet said,  "I might as well call myself  Not Tom 
Mix."
 
 
        Forgive  me, I've been paying only a cursory attention to this 
thread, but does the  above remark apply to "atheism" also? One often hears that 
atheism (like  secularity allegedly ) is just another religion.  Accordingly, 
when  atheists or secularists insist on a religiously-free public square, they 
are  really advocating that their "religions" should dominate the public  square 
to the exclusion of Christianity. But if "Paganism" should not count  as a 
religion, it would seem that neither  atheism nor secularity should count as a 
religion?

Bobby

Robert  Justin Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware

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