Goddamn it, it's not as if I haven't spent my entire post-school life studying this. Show some respect to the resident expert! ;-)
Fundamentalist Atheists;
It seems you have missed my point entirely. Their laws do promote distinction over commonality. Your examples, to be frank, are actually wrong. The French do allow theft under certain circumstances and they do apparently have legal use of arms.
But to bring this back on topic a secular legal system position wouldn't care about the real or imagined religious symbolism on clothing standards at schools. The French laws do make such a distinction, hence they are atheistic and breach the separation of church and state.
In other words, they're behaving like China or, in a far less violent fashion, Iran. But the principle is the same - that the state may make judgements on religious expression qua religious expression.
Re: Quibblings or quislings?
Metaphysics;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
Goddamn it, it's not as if I haven't spent my entire post-school life studying this. Show some respect to the resident expert! ;-)
Fundamentalist Atheists;
It seems you have missed my point entirely. Their laws do promote distinction over commonality. Your examples, to be frank, are actually wrong. The French do allow theft under certain circumstances and they do apparently have legal use of arms.
But to bring this back on topic a secular legal system position wouldn't care about the real or imagined religious symbolism on clothing standards at schools. The French laws do make such a distinction, hence they are atheistic and breach the separation of church and state.
In other words, they're behaving like China or, in a far less violent fashion, Iran. But the principle is the same - that the state may make judgements on religious expression qua religious expression.