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Originally Posted by Makarov
No one has ever proposed that God or religion cannot be discussed in public.
However, our laws state that God or religion cannot be promoted by the government. This does not mean that all government-hosted roast beef dinners must open with a government official proclaiming to the entire room that there is no God.
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Fair enough, and that's an excellent distinction on a fairly fine point.
There's a significant difference between not having any particular set of beliefs and actively "proselytizing" that there is no God. Christopher Hitchens may not have had a religion but he certainly had a belief structure that he was passionate about.