@Red cv,
Actually, the only thing to loathe about religion is how many people of faith have, throughout history, tended to, you know, subjugate and kill people of different or no faiths?
Like, you know, the Muslim extremists and Christian extremists would quite like to do?
Speaking of which, the First Amendment was designed so that, you know, no religion would be allowed to gain the power needed to subjugate people of different faiths. Keeping the government from advocating a specific religion is a protection of everyone's religious rights, and as a Christian, I tend to consider those protections to be rather important.
I can understand how some people would see things like not allowing school prayer (that is, school-led prayer. Kids can still pray whenever the hell they want, naturalyl, and generally don't get in trouble for praying, nor should they) as an attack on Christianity. It's not. It's a defense of the rights of everyone, non-Christian AND Christian. If a non-Christian religion became the majority religion, I'm sure all Christians would be very happy that, say, Muslim prayer is not something that their kids are forced to do in public school.
So, seeing that, it's only just to not force kids who don't believe in Christ to pray to Him. It's all a matter of self-preservation, and defending ourselves should the tables ever be truly turned.
That's one example, of course. To be blunt, the government shouldn't put one faith above others, or favor any faith, for the sake of all of us, as there IS no single dominant faith. The many denominations of Christianity are not the same, and they've fought amongst themselves many times in the past, and subjugated and killed each other just as if they were of an entirely different religion. No thanks, I'd rather have no faith in control than one different than mine. And I think that's a compromise we should all agree to.