Light'em if you got 'em. - Good grief, it's amazing what papers will print in their opinion pages. The nwfDailyNews has an opinion article where the writer compares religion to smoking. It's apparently a reaction to A lawsuit brought upon the Escambia schools for having prayer in schools.
The writer of the opinion piece, Religious addiction, draws the analogy that religion is like smoking in public places. And so, like the laws governing smoking in public places, religion should also be eradicated in public places.
Religion is like smoking. In moderation, it can be very satisfying; in excess, it becomes an addiction. Those of us who don't smoke or practice a religion just want to go about our lives being smoke-free and religion-free. Smoking laws and religion laws do not stop their practitioners from doing either - they just protect those of us who think the habit is unhealthy, yet still allow those who want to do so to continue in their own environment.
Of course the problem I see with this analogy is that there are a number of people not satisfied to keep people from smoking in public places, they also insist that people be kept from smoking in their cars and in their homes. I wonder if that same path will eventually be taken for those practicing religion?
The Great Separation continues.
