I'll pin my baseline assumptions on the universal declaration of human rights

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Well that's settled then. So can we get on with the job of trying to safeguard human rights and strenghten our crumbling democricies without fighting over the evils of religion?

We have a stick that we can use to take the measure both theists and non-theists. Let's use it and let the chips fall where they may.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}