From here:
Atheism is a creed deserving of the same religious protections as Christianity, Islam, and other faiths, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ruled in a new decision.
“Protection against discrimination because of religion, in my view, must include protection of the applicants’ belief that there is no deity,” wrote David A. Wright, associate chair of the commission, in an August 13 decision.
The ruling was spurred by a complaint from self-described secular humanist Rene Chouinard, who was opposing the District School Board of Niagara’s policy regarding the distribution of Gideon bibles.
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Three years ago, in a protest move, Mr. Choinard, a Grimsby, Ont. father of two school-age children, offered to similarly distribute the Atheist text “Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children.”
When, as Mr. Chouinard expected, the board rejected his offer, he took his case to the Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that the school district has “discriminated against them … because of creed.”
A creed is a formal statement of beliefs, something that today’s anti-theists would claim not to have; they don’t believe anything, rather, they rely on evidence and reason. At least, that is what they would have us – believe. It is nonsense, of course since even atheists believe in the efficacy of reason and evidence.
In spite of its compulsive grovelling before the altar of political correctness, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has correctly identified atheism as a creed, a system of unprovable, a priory beliefs that have to be taken on faith.
It also highlights another compulsion: Christendom’s determination to hasten its own demise.
So:
Would you still allow distribution of Bibles in your school, and as ordered by law now, and the atheism booklet, (blank pages perhaps), and trust God to do His work?
Mmmmmm.
Truth vs.Lies.
Which would win?
Well that is a theists strawman perspective based on a faith based delusion… got anything concrete?
Sleeper,
Are you claiming that anything that is faith based is a delusion?
If it is, then your own position is a delusion since even atheism has un-provable faith-based starting points, the most obvious being that human reason is reliable.
If your point is that it is just a theist’s faith that is delusional, you are not much further ahead since there isn’t any rigorous way of demonstrating that a person’s experience of God is any more delusional than your experience of the keyboard you used to type your message.
As for having a “strawman perspective”, I presume you meant “use a straw-man argument”: Terry’s point was to let Christian and atheist literature speak for itself and let the students decide which is more convincing. That is not a straw-man argument. As yet, you haven’t presented any arguments at all, not even one against a straw-man.
What will likely happen is that the school board will change its policy so that no “religious” material of any kind may be distributed. That is what happened in the Bluewater District School Board (Grey and Bruce Counties). The result is that the anti-theist win in that nothing about God is made available to the students in our schools.