Those
are the tactics of American Atheists with its lawyers and its volunteer staffers sniffing out any hint of fellow Americans exercising
their freedom of belief, or from doing good to others
because of their beliefs.
I
was watching the utterly lifeless and totally bamboozled Detroit
Tigers go down 2-0 to the S.F. Giants tonight and I wondered,
“What must it be like for David Silverman and his ilk to listen to “God Bless America?” as it's sung every single ball game.
I'll bet he presses the mute button. I'll bet he has to so he doesn't get diarrhoea or become faint like atheists in New York when they catch sight of two steal beams in the shape of a cross. I wonder if his fingers cramp up as tries not to press speed dial to his lawyers?
“What must it be like for David Silverman and his ilk to listen to “God Bless America?” as it's sung every single ball game.
I'll bet he presses the mute button. I'll bet he has to so he doesn't get diarrhoea or become faint like atheists in New York when they catch sight of two steal beams in the shape of a cross. I wonder if his fingers cramp up as tries not to press speed dial to his lawyers?
Will
he ever have the guts to take on America's Game? Or will he be like
Stalin and all the other atheist bullies of the 20th
century and stick to knocking over the defenceless?
Time will tell, I guess. In the mean time -
Hey
David! Mute this.
God loves you!
God died for you!
God died for you!
You know Stalin trained as a priest, right? That communism is a totalitarian political theory, right? That it has nothing to do with atheism, right?
ReplyDeleteOf course you don't know these things or you wouldn't write what you write. You only write what seems to best support your beliefs.
That's the sign of very poor thinking skills.
Let's try a little thought experiment: once muslims achieve a majority in a particular small town, USA, the local male valedictorian - no female was on the ballot - leads the students in a prayer and asks them to face towards Mecca. Some students don't and some blogger complains about the pettiness of those who think graduation is about graduating and not a platform for the valedictorian to express and impose his religious beliefs on others. Maybe it would help stimulate your critical thinking juices to assume the students who were forced into a position of non-compliance might be, oh, I don't know, maybe christian. Maybe then you might begin to figure out all on your own why introducing particular religious impositions in public schools during public performances using public property and public materials paid for by the entire public on those who may or may not share them is highly problematic. Come on. I think you do this once you try putting this odious religious shoe on the other foot. Religious privilege separates people based on faith, divides them into those of us who share them and those of us who do not, and expects everyone to pay for this privilege. Anyone who complains about this unfair tactic is then painted by those who support privilege to be immoral, unethical, selfish, and the real problem. Oh, and if you vocalize your criticism as an atheist, then you are vilified as a strident and shrill militant fundamentalist by those who don;t realize that supporting such privilege undermines their central argument, that imposing their religious belief on others while the public pays for this is really a matter of principle: exercising free speech.
How ironic is that?