Correct the Constitution: Change Freedom of Religion to Freedom From Religion

I'm going to propose the unthinkable here: let's rewrite the U.S. Constitution. It's not all that foreign a concept if you want to know the truth.

If you threw a black ballpoint pen in the National Archives and pulled back that foot of protective shatter proof glass, America's religious right would be on it like starving jackals.

So before they get that far, I say we beat them to it. That's right. Wherever you are, left, center, Pluto. It really wouldn't be much of an alteration. The addition of a mere two letters.

That's all it takes to save our country.

The First Amendment is where the dirty work needs to go down. No change needs be made to the text explaining what the Amendment does. I'm focusing on the sub-heading, which currently reads:

Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression.

I say we change it to:

Amendment I - Freedom from Religion. Freedom of the Press, Expression.

Freedom from religion. This is an important and crucially misunderstood idea. As stated in the wording of the constitution, it's not conceivable that someone would want freedom from the idea of God. Back in the day that was synonymous with black magic.

Therefore we, as atheists, have no right to be free of religion. We must have a religion, and unless we do, we are looked on with much scorn.

Starting to see why this is important?

The religious impulse is regarded by many to be a beneficial and inevitable part of the human condition for no good reason, when you get down to it. You could say religion redeems itself for things like Alcoholics Anonymous, but it doesn't.

There is nothing in a group like Alcoholics Anonymous that says you must be religious and must attend a church. Hell, they don't even say you have to believe in "God," as it were, just that you should have some sort of higher power.

Great. My higher power is black holes.

By and large most of the philanthropy work done in the name of one God or the other pales in comparison to the damage and destruction it causes. Most of the time these various religious institutions, they're just cleaning up the mess they made in the first place.