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Following a string of victories over the freedom of religion in America, the Freedom From\u00a0Constitutional\u00a0Rights (OK, it\u2019s Freedom From Religion Foundation) has set its sites on the University of Tennessee<\/a> for \u2013 I can\u2019t bring myself to say it \u2013 allowing prayer\u00a0before football games. \u00a0Tapping into the post-modern notion that nobody has a right not to be me, the FFRF has vowed to fight this gravest of evils to save the world from religion. \u00a0Notice that the\u00a0commenters\u00a0mostly jump into cheer them on, with one wag offering the hope that through crushing financial ruin, they can terrorize the university enough to force them to cave to their demands.<\/p>\n

Notice there is not the slightest inkling that they desire freedom, liberty, tolerance,\u00a0diversity, or any such rot. \u00a0They say they are appalled that the prayers are done in the name of Jesus. \u00a0Yet how seldom do they complain \u00a0that most universities have become, like so many classes of mine as far back as the 80s, nothing other than\u00a0reeducation\u00a0centers dedicated to eradicating religion from the planet? Perhaps if I saw the shock at that, I would believe them. \u00a0But this is what happens every single time that secular societies have defined themselves by hostility to religion. \u00a0Every. Single. Time. \u00a0No matter what the promise, countries founded on atheism dedicated to\u00a0severely\u00a0limiting religious practice end up looking like this:<\/p>\n

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