I am fine with equating Atheism with a religion, though I disagree. Call it what you want.

When we signed my kid up for little league it was without realizing that before each game he would do two separate pledges to G-D and Country. Agnostics and atheist and nature based religions etc. will never be as equally protected as compared to other religions for which G-D has meaning until this stuff stops. Even if my son doesn’t have to say it, the other G-D religions are being granted a leg up. That’s five times a week at school and 2x the number of baseball games he has per week. It is oppressive.

What really bothers me about the word God being selectively maintained in our society is because what is being reserved is the ability to tell us we have to do something because God said so. If that’s not true, just the historic record of what God has said that people must do is enough to make the possibility that God will speak for anyone again also oppressive . God is dead but the manipulation isn’t necessarily.

I can totally see fanatics roasting people alive again because they won’t do what the right God said to do, or give up their oil or something like that. Actually, so many Christians in this country and obviously Muslims in other countries still play those games. I have neighbors who put maps on their Facebook pages showing how in crusades, Muslims have far out sinned Christians, inherent in that claim of course is that current and future Christian Crusades are supportable by God.