Originally Posted by Botnst

Okay. You guys all seem uncharacteristically in agreement. Weird, but ok.

Now let's say I'm a gov employee and I hang out with my buddies in a public building and we pray to our favorite deity. Perhaps Woden? YHWH? It may matter, I don't know. Then some smarty-pants political fanatic comes along and gets wildly offended. Public prayer by a public employee on public property. Oh, the humanity!

Now my buddies and I laugh and laugh because ... we're atheists. Did i still violate the 1st Amendment prohibition even I didn't believe a word of the haranguing nonsense we were espousing?