monkey nonsense

so i saw this sale on sigg water bottles and thought, perhaps i shall get some. since plastic have been shown to have bpa or whatever and my bottle is from before they started selling them labeled with bpa-free. i heard those metal ones were safe. so i was about to order a sigg bottle when i started reading negative reviews. apparently aluminum (what the sigg bottles are made of) is not entirely safe either and the sigg bottles’ liner wasn’t bpa-free until only recently (past year or so). reviewers were telling me to get kleen kanteen instead! which apparently is stainless steel. of course research into that says that those bottles are made in china. manufacturing kiss of death? how soon before there’s a recall on them?! so…. i don’t know what kind of bottle to get. and i’m sure in five years research will show that neither of the bottles are good. but i just want something to hold my water!! what to do?

latest supreme court nominee is jewish. read an article on cnn about how the court is now catholics and jews, but the author was saying that in reality, the catholics and jews and protestants share similar views (on governing) so it doesn’t really make a difference. but the author brought up how a more diverse supreme court would still be nice. (article – http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/19/do-6-catholics-3-jews-9-protestants/?hpt=C1)

Then read the comments, one of which said how the only way to have true separation of church and state is to have only atheists on the supreme court.

questions

• does atheism count as a religion?
• can u have separation between church and state with religious people?
• can u have separation between church and state with ANY group of people? because people will always have an inherent belief (believing in the absence of god is still a belief no?) this is kind of combination of the first two questions i have
• “The separation of church and state was to prevent the state from establishing a state church and to prevent the meddling of the state in religion.” (another comment) – true or not?
• if the above bullet point is true, what is meddling?