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Aimlessly walking, side by side, past, behind and in front of entities that contain an unimaginable capacity to store information. Cloaked by the vessle they inhabit; they perform the dance of their day. Each individual molded carefully by their history. Condemed they are, by the string of terms that are webbed by their identiy tags. Like chracters in a movie or a novel, individualas are created by the setting that surrounds them, and are defined and interpreted by the those who look upon them. Each and every individual is a peformer. Who we are is a product of a rhearsed, scheme of human action. We are socailly contructed, individualistic bodies with identities that are constantly in the process of transforming. Daily we play multiple roles, such as mother, son, doctor, patient, teacher and student. Socail scrips intertwine with these roles we play. Cultural intructions provided for how we must ineract and react to the roles of others. As individuals are engaged in their daily activities they internalize learned concepts that can often disfigure the image of a role being performed. Some individuals can be undermined and distorted by the values and performance they choose. The performance they choose to carry can put them in a classification that is below the cultural norm. One term can produce a mass of inimical characteristics fashioned from the past. Ignorant, narrow-minded, immoral, corrupt, sinful, deciteful, and bigoted are identities that are tied to their beilfs; a part of who they are. A part of their identiy that can not be concealed by an means of body modification. As a society we unwitteldly accept Christian hegemony in the United State through which we then actively participate in the encouragement of cultural myths...

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...n is prominent. These states thus ignore the “No Religious Test Clause” indicated in the United States Constitution which states in Article VI, paragraph 3, “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Cecil Bothwell, an atheist, fell victum to this opression in 2009 when she won an election for a seat in the city council of Asheville, North Carolina. She was nearly unseated because local critics highlighted the provision in the constitution of North Carolina that prvented non-theist from holding a position ins the state government.

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