The Atheists are taking on Bush's Faith Based Intitiatives. This could get ugly.

The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the question of whether taxpayers have the right to challenge the White House's aggressive promotion of federal financial aid for religious charities.

At issue is whether a Wisconsin-based group of atheists and agnostics have legal standing, by virtue of being taxpayers, to bring their complaint in the federal court system.

Now even though I am an Atheist I am still a little ambiguous about this case.

I understand where these guys are coming from because I was also very concerned with Bush's plan to essentially funnel federal money to churches. It is really just another way for him to blur the lines between church and state just that much further.

But having said that I am very aware that when Atheists challenge faith based groups who are ostensibly providing a service to people in crisis, it just looks bad.

We have a lot of problems looking to the majority of Americans as if we have no moral code. This is untrue, but these type of open challenges toward religious organizations just reinforce that belief. And religious people are all about the "belief".

I just wonder if this will do more harm then good in the long run.