Lucifer wrote:

Al Klein wrote:

On 25 Oct 2006 00:54:18 -0700, "Lucifer" <wyrdology@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Just name a state founded on atheism
that defended human rights?

The USA?

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one
People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and
equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they
should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.


[edit] Preamble
We hold these Truths to be self-evident: that all Men are created
equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
of Happiness.

"Nature's God" and "Creator" doesn't sound
like atheism to me?

Used to defend, but okay.

True, might do once again, I hope.

If it wasn't for the Bill of Rights
that the State where I was born
and raised,Rhode Island, demanded be passed
atheists wouldn't have a prayer.

" What is your religion or spiritual belief? In the U.S., we can take
it for granted that people are free to follow any belief they wish.
Elsewhere, this often isn't the case.
During the 17th century, people left England to escape religious
persecution. Many colonists came to America to be able to freely
practice their religions. Roger Williams was a defender of religious
liberty who arrived in Boston on February 5, 1631.
Ordained to the ministry in the Church of England, Williams discovered
Puritanism, a reform movement that developed within the Church of
England, during his first parish duty. He converted. Soon after, he was
asked to be minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Leaving behind
the religious intolerance under England's King Charles I, he and his
wife journeyed across the ocean to join the "American Experiment" in
Boston in 1631. At first, Williams just wanted to reform the Church of
England; soon, he sought separation completely.
Many of Williams's parishioners did not agree with his idea to separate
from the Church of England. He then became minister in Salem. There,
his ideas also proved too radical. He went to Plymouth but again fell
into disfavor. Williams insisted that land must be purchased from the
Indians, rather than taken from them forcefully, in order to claim
title to it. He again went to Salem and was eventually put on trial in
1635 for his views. His sentence was banishment. Williams then
purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established the
settlement of Providence, Rhode Island.
Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island based upon principles of
complete religious toleration, separation of church and state, and
political democracy (values that the U.S. would later be founded upon).
It became a refuge for people persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Anabaptists, Quakers, and Jews settled in Rhode Island. After forming
the first Baptist church in America, Williams left it to seek
spirituality in different ways. He stopped preaching to his friends,
the Indians, when he realized that their form of worship also fell
under his principle of religious freedom. He declared, "forced worship
stinks in God's nostrils." Williams's ideas were radical at the time,
but can you imagine living in a place without religious freedom now?"


http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/williams_1

Yes, the atheistic state of North Korea.

I suggest you read the classic on Religious
Liberty that gives the Bibical grounds for religious liberty

Bloudy Tenant of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
by Author: Roger Williams


Jim

De Nile is not only
a river in Egypt