Will Religion ever be illegal in America?

[Marks]

mornelithe said:

Marks said:

mornelithe said:

Marks said:

mornelithe said:

marioboy2004 said:
When will atheism become illegal?

When the US wants to lose every one of it's brightest thinkers.

You do realize being atheist doesn't automatically make you smart right? And that there are plenty of religious people who are very bright. Hell my sister is very religious and she's a year away from graduating with a phD in science. Personal beliefs don't affect overall intelligence. 

What you said is basically the same as saying if Judaism became illegal we'd lose every good doctor, accountant, and lawyer. But being Jewish doesn't make you innately good at those things. 

You do realize I didn't say it automatically made you smart, right?  However, some of the brightest thinkers in the country are indeed Atheist, or Agnostic.  Didn't read the rest of it, since it has no relevance to my statement.

Yeah but now you're backtracking, first you said every one of the brightest thinkers...now you've lowered it to a quite reasonable "some of the brightest thinkers" which I can agree with and wouldn't have needed to reply to. 

No you're absolutely correct, my apologies, that was way to all encompassing a statement.  Just re-read what I wrote.

Cool, just a misunderstanding then. Because I definitely agree some of the brightest people are atheists/agnostic.