[From the Peninsula Clarion's Letters to the Editor page on 29 January 2007.]
"Reader voices strong opinion on atheists"
It's time to stomp out atheists in America. The majority of Americans would love to see atheists kicked out of America. If you don't believe in God, then get out of this country.
The United States is based on having freedom of speech, religion, etc., which means you can believe in God any way you want (Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, etc.), but you must believe.
I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion. Our currency even says, "In God We Trust." So, to all atheists in America: Get off our country.
Atheists have caused the ruin of this great nation by taking prayer out of our schools and being able to practice what can only be called evil. I don't care if they have never committed a crime, atheists are the reason crime is rampant.
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Oh yeah, prayer in schools is the problem. Nothing to do with colapse of welfare, unobtainable healthcare, 20 million unemployed, inner city degredation, rich/poor gap or overly militant foreign policy.
It's time to stomp out atheists in America. The majority of Americans would love to see atheists kicked out of America. If you don't believe in God, then get out of this country.How loving and open-minded of you. Jesus must love the foaming at the mouth hate speeches you give.
The United States is based on having freedom of speech, religion, etc., which means you can believe in God any way you want (Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, etc.), but you must believe.
Complete bullshit. If you don't know what you are talking about, shut the fuck up. You don't know the minds of the framers, the constitution itself, and/or the true meanings.
I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion. Our currency even says, "In God We Trust." So, to all atheists in America: Get off our country.
The Mercury dime had a picture of the Roman god of profit on it, what's your point?
Atheists have caused the ruin of this great nation by taking prayer out of our schools and being able to practice what can only be called evil. I don't care if they have never committed a crime, atheists are the reason crime is rampant."
All right then, using your same logic, christians have caused cancer increases throughout the world due to religious wars in the past, and by wearing mixed fabrics. I can be just as asinine as you can be.
Sorry, freedom of religion means freedom to believe in anything you want, including nothing at all. This is the definition and what you´re doing goes against the very essence of human rights. And in God we trust exists only since the fifties. If they haven´t comitted a crime, stop accusing them of criminality and stop saying I don´t care. People don´t care about your opinions either, specially the superstitious one about prayer. Don´t you get a dictionary to look up what prayer means?
... We don't commit crimes so WE must be the reason there's so much crime?
Detrs: Yes, it was on Pharyngula yestoday, and there someone commented this letter is around since 2001. So, I'll call a Poe here.
Actually, I had a scan of the clipping of this that a friend of mine sent me that I was planning on submitting a few weeks ago, but I did a search for it, and surprise, found that this was done way back when.here .
I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion. Our currency even says, "In God We Trust."
Added after the fact, by unAmerican religious nuts. Do your research.
"which means you can believe in God any way you want (Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, etc.), but you must believe."
you can believe in God any way you want ... , but you must believe. I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion.
The Constitution doesn't use the phrase "freedom of religion".
Atheists have caused the ruin of this great nation by taking prayer out of our schools
The Supreme Court case barring public schools from conducting prayer services was brought by a church-attending Unitarian (Abington v. Schempp).
No law prohibits praying or reading the Bible in school. The court decision only prohibits public school employees from conducting prayer sessions.
"It's time to stomp out atheists in America."What a delightful display of Christian love. Jesus would be so proud.
"The majority of Americans would love to see atheists kicked out of America."
I don't really believe MOST Americans would be so thoughtless and rash.
"If you don't believe in God, then get out of this country."
So, unless I believe in a fairy tale deity, as you do, I should have to leave the country in which I was born, a country founded on freedom?
"The United States is based on having freedom of speech, religion, etc., which means you can believe in God any way you want (Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, etc.), but you must believe."
I notice your examples are all sects of Xianity. How 'bout if I believe in Hindu gods, or mother nature as god, or the FSM or pink unicorn? What if I believe that the human mind is god? What if I believe I am god? What if I believe that the processes of science are god?
"I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion."
You can't police belief, only the expression of belief.
"Our currency even says, 'In God We Trust.'"
Not when it leaves my wallet. "In God we trust" is inaccurate and unconstitutional. It does not belong on our currency.
"So, to all atheists in America: Get off our country."
It is my country, too, asshat. I don't really enjoy sharing it with the likes of you, but it is my lot, just as it is yours to share it with me.
"Atheists have caused the ruin of this great nation by taking prayer out of our schools and being able to practice what can only be called evil."
Prove that the removal of prayer from public schools has caused the "ruin" of this country.
What practices, specific to atheists, are evil? Who gets to decide what is evil, you?
"I don't care if they have never committed a crime, atheists are the reason crime is rampant."
Rampant among Christians, I might point out.
Apparently you don't care about the constitution, Bill or Rights or due process, either.
The United States is based on having freedom of speech, religion, etc., which means you can believe in God any way you want I don't recall freedom of religion meaning no religion.
But, in order to really be a freedom, wouldn't it have to? Again, how can you have freedom if there are restrictions in place? You can't really believe in freedom of anything, if you're going to insist that people do things your way.
I don't care if they have never committed a crime, atheists are the reason crime is rampant.
Kind of flies in the face of the legal system, don't you think? You do know that in America, people are considered innocent until proven guilty, right? So where's your proof? And no, you can't fall back on the Bible. The United States is not run according that dusty old book.
Anybody here (besides me) want to take the whole group of fundies, put them all on an island out in the remote Pacific Ocean, make sure they will NEVER acquire the technology to leave the island and be done with them, once and for all?
Freedom of speech lets you not speak, freedom of religion also includes no religion (Its not freedom otherwise)
American currency says "In god we trust" because of the communists a few decades ago, it wasn't there before that
Freedom of religion also includes not forcing your beliefs on other people.
Get the fuck out of the natives country, but don't come back to Europe
I'm not even going to try to go through all the BS, but I'll touch on this one thing:
No one has taken prayer out of school. If a student wants to sit there and pray (silently)during study hall or before a test, by all means pray. Do it all day for all anyone cares, though grades might suffer. Who would know what was going on in their head anywho?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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