Royal Gooner wrote:Face it the constitution is 300 years out of date. The no-established church clause was because each of the 13 colonies had different state faiths, so was designed to stop sectarian conflict but is now being abused by militants to enforce state atheism in a majority Christian country.
Secular government =/= state atheism
Also, yeah we're a majority Christian nation...
...but Christianity is dying with each subsequent generation and won't be the majority religion here in a few generations.
Going back to the portion I bolded, how is America going down the path of state atheism if the GOP has become Y'all Qaeda because of its pandering to evangelicals? The Founding Fathers were 100% correct in separating church and state because like the graph I linked shows, religions can gain or lose adherents over generations, and things can become extremely messy when a state religion loses its majority status. Also, a state religion is overall unfair to those who aren't adherents of the majority religion (and the majority flavor of the religion). Even if/when atheism becomes the dominant religious position in America, I wouldn't want state atheism because it's unfair to those who choose to follow a religion. Religion should be left out of government (and Article Six and the First Amendment are good starts to that).
I do agree that the Constitution by itself is outdated, but that's why we have an amendment process (with 27 currently)
However, we still need future amendments for: Congressional term limits, tightening campaign financing (i.e., no possibility for Citizens United in the future), reworking the Electoral College (and moving on from FPTP), balancing the budget, and a blanket equal rights amendment.