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‘An Evil Little Thing’: Atheists Slam RI State Rep’s Comments About Teen Behind Prayer Mural Ban

Last week, we brought you the story about a prayer mural that was banned in Cranston, Rhode Island, after a young atheist protested its presence in her school. On Wednesday, Jessica Ahlquist, 16, won her case against Cranston High School West when U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux ruled that the district must remove the banner immediately and pay her legal fees.

Now, a new controversy is brewing after Rhode Island State Representative Peter Palumbo, a Democrat, made comments about Ahlquist on the John DePetro Show. During his interview, Palumbo called her “an evil little thing” and said ”Poor thing. And it’s not her fault. She’s being trained to be like that.”

While the first statement may have been said in a joking manner, non-believers are equally upset with what he said next. When the show’s host questioned whether Palumbo really believes the young girl is evil, he softened his rhetoric a bit, saying, “…she’s being coerced by evil people.”

You can listen to the full radio interview below. Palumbo’s comments about Ahlquist start around 00:20, courtesy of 630 WPRO AND 99.7 FM’s John DePetro Show:

In the Humanist Examiner, Michael Stone penned his disgust with the politician’s commentary:

Palumbo’s wholesale slander of an entire community is being challenged by atheists, freethinkers and other secular Americans. This weekend an intense campaign of protest began to register complaint and disgust with Palumbo’s derogatory and disrespectful remarks.

While atheists and non-believers are outraged by his statements, this seems to be only one example of the push-back the young woman is receiving as a result of her activism. Last week, following the court’s decision in her favor, she shared some of the challenges she’s been coping with.

RI State Rep Peter Palumbo Calls Jessica Ahlquist Evil Little Thing | Prayer Banner

The prayer banner at the center of the controversy

“It has been a very long and difficult year for me and my family and we’re just so glad it has finally been decided,” Ahlquist said. “I’ve had to deal with a lot of harassment and negative flak from people who disagree with my views and opinions, but it’s all worth it.”

According to the CranstonPatch, students have threatened to beat her up, an anonymous commenter posted her home address on a local newspaper‘s web site and she’s been called plenty of names other than “evil” by those who disagree with her stance on the mural. She’s been dubbed a “witch,“ a ”snot” and given other disparaging labels. Patch has more about how authorities are reacting to some of these actions:

Since the decision, Cranston Police said they are investigating threats made against Ahlquist on the Internet, including numerous Twitter posts by some of her classmates declaring that she should be beaten up. Some of the comments could constitute cyberbullying and represent violations of the Safe Schools Act — recently passed legislation that establishes a unified state policy against cyberbullying approved by the Rhode Island General Assembly last year and signed into law by Governor Lincoln Chafee last summer.

Palumbo’s words continue to circulate in the atheist community, with some even hoping that the local politician will step down as a result.

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  • possom
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:10pm

    If she don‘t like it she don’t have to look at it. nuf said!

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:30pm

      Yeah! nuff said!. In fact, my religious figure is gay, naked hitler. Why don‘t I go hang a picture of naked Hitler inside your child’s school. If she don’t like it, she don’t have to look. Nuff said.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Palombo’s right…she has been coached by “evil” people. Bitter, hateful atheists are the only ones motiviated to actively litigate and pursue the removal of any religious imagery from the public eye. She’s the product of their hatred towards christians. I went to school with believers and non-believers alike, I never encountered a militant teenager “offended” by any kind of religious imagery if they didn’t like anything, they ignored it. But in today’s hyper-PC, liberal ideology-saturated media and school systerm, anything that’s conservative or religious is an object of hatred and disdain. Nuff said.

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:56pm

      @fidel…a picture of your father, (gay, naked hitler), is a wonderful idea to illustrate your heritage…

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    • LibertarianForLife
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:58pm

      Finally some people without any invisible means of support on this website. Thank you Fidel, for your fight against the ultimate evil of religion.

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:07pm

      @AvengerK Atheism has nothing to do with being a liberal. In fact, conservatives should agree that government institutions that subscribe to a particular belief system are inherently unconstitutional and restrict access to all citizens, thus infringing on civil liberties.

      @RayBlue If you want to join my religion, please make a donation. My god LOVES money.

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    • Sigdrifa
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:09pm

      Exactly. Atheists are such funny, angry little people. They have their own religion, Atheism, which has it‘s own set of beliefs and behaviours but they certainly don’t like anybody else having theirs.

       
    • Bluefish49
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:10pm

      @Fidel…..really? That’s all you have? Stick to Huff Post….that’s where trash trolls like you roam…..TEA!!

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:14pm

      @sigdrifa, care to provide some information as to the worship centers, the dogma, and the rules of this so-called Atheist religion?

      Oh that‘s right they don’t exist because we don’t participate in that nonsense. Come back to reality, theists. It’s actually quite nice.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:17pm

      Atheists can dish it out but can’t take it

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:18pm

      Fidelcashfl044 – You atheists aren’t living in reality in the first place. Why else have atheists killed more people than any religion has?

       
    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:21pm

      @git-r-done,

      the atheists you refer to committed atrocities through abuse of power. Fortunately, in this great country, our constitution does not allow for a murderous dictator to purge entire populations simply due to their belief system.

      You, and people like you, are actually more closely aligned to those people. You would have the US government subscribe to one, and only one, irrational superstitious belief system. This, in practice, would eliminate the ability for other free citizens to practice their religion, seeing as the public institutions that are intended to belong to all of us, would be poisoned by your idiotic religious ideals.

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    • Snowdog2112
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:28pm

      The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1)

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:29pm

      Fidel – It’s you who subscribes to an irrational belief system. Your Marxist ideology is more dangerous than any Christian theocracy.

      But any Christians getting to speak their minds is a theocracy in your demented mindset.

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:33pm

      @Git-R-Done, maybe you don’t understand what “irrational” means. Let me give you an example.

      Someone who trusts facts that have been established by means of thorough examination and adherence to science and reason is not irrational.

      Snakes lack vocal chords. There is no reliable evidence that a snake has ever spoken. Someone who believes in the Creation story, in which a snake talks, is irrational.

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    • eflow504
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:39pm

      thats right Republicans keep on voting for those libs just because you want to be loved, and this is what you get!

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    • Leopold
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:40pm

      @ fidel

      your church is the court house and hitler does describe you well. He also was a totalitarian.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:43pm

      Fidel – I know what irrational means and people like you fit that definition to a T.

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    • boundforglory
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:44pm

      @ all atheists,
      atheistism is a religion, it is a set of beliefs that there is no God, but the atheists take it so far that they try to force their beliefs on everyone else. We christians dont force our way of life on anyone, but we do try and show them the truth, the truth that Jesus IS the Son of God and that He died on the cross to save everyone from their sins! If nobody wants to listen, we leave them alone! You are trying to force the word “christmas” out of december because you are offended by the word “Christ” thats in christmas! Blessed be the Lord God that created everything and in the end, He will have the last word! So stop forcing your non-belief on everyone, everybody has that right to choose for him or herself to believe or not without your interference!

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:51pm

      @boundforglory

      You couldn’t be more wrong. Atheism is not a religion, because we don’t have a set of beliefs, dogma, places of worship, holy books, creation myths, or anything else that defines all of the irrational and idiotic religions of the world.

      The public institutions of this great, free nation should not be subscribing to any religious belief.

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    • palerider54
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:04pm

      @FIDEL, You are wrong. Being liberal has EVERYTHING to do with being an atheist.

      Being liberal means you believe man is God of the religion of evolution. THAT is what needs to be kicked out of public view.

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    • lanurse1
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:04pm

      Just got a stamp that says “In God We Trust” I will stamp EVERY envelope that goes through US Mail~~The Atheists can go straight to Hell and party with Madeline Murray O’Hare :)

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:13pm

      I’m not an atheist by any means but everything you all say about atheists applies equally to religious people as well.

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    • toto
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:30pm

      It may not be her fault, but she is evil and if she is a non-believer, that’s fine, I don’t care, but there must be something spiritual doubt inside her, because evil is a value statement related to religious beliefs and if she doesn’t believe, then why does she care?

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:43pm

      ZengaPA65

      I’m no religious zealot but religions people have been taking it on the nose for quite some time. Say about 2 to thousand years, if I recall Christians were fed to lions for fun and today Christians seem to be the punch line of most Hollywood jokes. Jews have endured Holocaust, deportations from over a hundred countries and constant threat to the existence.

      So poor little Atheist have had to endure seeing religious comments, symbols and tolerate their prayers. The pain, ah the pain,…. PLEASE

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:50pm

      @Fidel, you sir are an angry little person. The strawman you errected and promptly knocked down is silly. There is no comparrison to a prayer mural and a gay naked Hitler. Simply no comparrison.

      If you are so offended, then go away and don’t look ya big cry baby.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:54pm

      its sad that many (including myself) who do believe in our Father will have the same fate as the atheists when he returns. to
      john 14:12 12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
      matthew 7:21-23
      21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
      matthew 7:13-14
      13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
      1john 2:3-4
      3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

      a good way to begin working on it is search everything in your life,mind, and heart that is displeasing to our Father and everyday work to rid yourself of it. and study not read his word everyday.

      luke 9:23
      23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his c

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:08pm

      Hey Fidel,

      You seem to be a bit confused are you a Socialist or a Communist?

      By the way Hitler was not gay, if anything he was a Homophobe and a frustrated little man.You may want to pick a new figure for a “god”?

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:31pm

      @Miami

      No, I am neither a socialist or a communist. I’m a conservative, actually. I think that the government is obligated to abstain from subscribing to a particular belief system. Especially a belief system that contains irrational thought, anti-scientific and proveably false stories, and of questionable origin – written by thieving, plagiarizing salesmen.

      Oh, and I get to pick a new god? Hm ok. This time my god is a mexican. He only speaks spanish. And I want my child’s school to implement a spanish fight song that is sung just after the star-spangled banner at sports events.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:38pm

      fidelcashflo44
      You’re obviously a New Reform Gay Naked Hitlerian heretic. You better watch your step, because decent, self-respecting Orthodox Gay Naked Hitlerians don’t take kindly to those who make and worship graven images of the Leader.

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:45pm

      Chet Hempsted, I want you to know that your post made the time I’ve wasted on the Blaze today.. well, it made it all worthwhile.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:16pm

      fidelcashflo44

      Oh I see you’re a Contrarian,

      You claim to be a Conservative but that goes against your desire to be free of religion. Even science for that matter as science is based on theories and the test of those theories, some are proven and some are disproved. which in those theories there’s belief and disbelief. String theory was the answer till it wasn’t, there are those who follow Chaos theory and some who say it’s numerological garbage and wave theory seems to be the flavor of the moment till it encounters it unraveling or someone comes up with something better.

      Anyway

      The Founding Fathers created this experiment as a Judeo-Christian Nation. The Phrase Separation of Church and State does not appear anywhere on the Constitution. In fact it states that Congress shall write “NO” law limiting the free practice of religion.

      Tolerance goes both ways and Freedom OF religion does not mean freedom FROM religion.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:31pm

      PS; As for your rights, where do they come from?

      If you cancel out God and or Christ, you cancel out your rights as they were written into the Constitution in their name.

      For those who blame the harm faith has done, contemplate the harm that has been done in the desire for power. Man is evil and man is capable of perverting anything he touches

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    • svan71
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:39pm

      I’m sorry Fidel how exactly do the words in this prayer compare to your naked Hitler idea? Thats right it doesn’t but your sick twisted mind drew that comparison …odd. Exactly which words offend you exactly ?

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:52pm

      MIAMI
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:43pm
      ZengaPA65

      I’m no religious zealot but religions people have been taking it on the nose for quite some time. Say about 2 to thousand years.

      If that’s your take then you are a zealot. Go study all the persecuting the church did themselves during those 2000 years. What they‘ve received in return doesn’t hold a candle to what they’ve dished out.

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    • backandtotheleft
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:27pm

      Yeah Fidel ’nuff said!! they are words. Maybe if they were in a book in the school you would have them censored or burned. Nuff said indeed.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:46pm

      ZengaPA65

      Really, you don’t know me nor do you know my practices.

      But I’ll play,

      First of all I meant 2 to 3 thousand years including the Jewish faith but that’s fine. What exactly has the Church done..?

      The inquisition? The Crusades? They condoned the slave trade? They stood by during Nazism/Fascism? And what else, some rapist and pedophiles who infiltrated the Church?

      Is that about it?

      To my understanding it was men who abused their power, interpreting the bible too run the inquisition and it was ended by the Church.

      The Crusades? they did not happen in a vacuum but in answer to Muslim incursions into Europe. The Cordoba Mosque in Spain is built on the ruins of a Christian Church and is also known as a Victory Mosque.

      Yes, they looked the other way and are guilty of not condemning the practice

      The same is true of their absence of character during the Fascist era but what could they have done?

      As I wrote before, Man is evil and capable of great harm or did you skip over that?

      The only zealots I see here are the ones attacking faith. Many people have done things in his name and never known Christ. I for one don’t practice religion but have always known Christ.and I hope he knows me.

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    • merchantsailor
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:54pm

      Funny they can call beleivers all manner of vile things. But that is ok isn’t it.

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:27am

      @MIAMI
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:46pm
      ZengaPA65

      Really, you don’t know me nor do you know my practices.

      But I’ll play,

      First of all I meant 2 to 3 thousand years including the Jewish faith but that’s fine. What exactly has the Church done..?

      The inquisition? The Crusades? They condoned the slave trade? They stood by during Nazism/Fascism? And what else, some rapist and pedophiles who infiltrated the Church?

      Is that about it?

      Not hardly but if you continue to recite the blatant hypocrisies of the organized religious it might occur to you where the animosity comes from.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:14am

      ZengaPA65

      Are you ready to defend all the secular record of human destruction?

      Hitler who saw himself as a god? He mouthed faith only to replace all religious idols with his own.

      11 million

      Stalin who had no faith? All but abolished religion.

      45 million

      Mao Tse Tung who also saw himself as a god?

      60 to 70 million

      And if you go further back we have the Genghis Khan 1162 to 1222

      about 40 to 45 million entire cities leveled to teach a lesson including women and children.

      I could add many more like Fidel Castro who is responsible for 15,000 in Cuba and over a 500,000 in Angola

      Do you want to continue this conversation…? Or have you taken enough of a beating….

      There is always Sadam….

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:57am

      Fidel Cash Flo,

      Your name explains your god’s love of money. Think, how strong will your hand’s grasp be on your money as you take your last breath? You don’t believe in God. Free will. So be it. It’s one of the choices of life. Through your rhetoric, it doesn‘t show alot of desire for ’any’ of the intangibles that make life worth living. Have you ever been in love? Do you love your family? Do you have any kids to love? Do you know ‘how’ to love? Some people don’t know how to love. They are stuck with themselves. They never get to ‘breathe’ love. Some continue to suffercate with money in their mouths. Medically, hope has been proven to help the fight of cancer, etc. They can’t explain it, but it’s there. On your deathbed, which will come soon enough, are you going to be thinking about money. You really don’t know who is going to actually get it, and what will be done with it. It may be a fool squandering it, while he laughs about you. There is some real hatred coming out of your mouth, Fidel Cash Flo. Even if you don’t believe in God, lighten up. That is, enjoy the lighter aspects of the human heart. Try being ‘kind’. If that goes against your grain, well, that‘s one of this world’s tragedies. Peace.

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:38am

      If you don‘t believe then it shouldn’t matter to you, and we shouldn’t hear a peep out of you, but we do. I think deep down all of you atheist’ really do feel the Lord Jesus Christ in your souls, but evil makes you think otherwise. Evil suppresses your own free will. Try having a little faith, baby! Jesus lives!

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:57am

      @MIAMI Supposedly the Catholic Church alone has killed between 50 and 150 million people over the years depending on who is throwing the numbers around and your defense against religious hypocrisy is
      dictators do it too. The only beating going on is your mental masturbation.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:06am

      @FIDEL,

      …Just a reminder oh smug one. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is just that…,A THEORY!

      Wunderkind FIDEL…,I suggest you scurry over to Webster’s and look up THEORY. You need to.
      Science can only go so far FIDEL.
      It has been said that where the science of Physics ends…, the science of Metaphysics begins.

      Your every post here shows your ignorance.

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    • SMACKD0WN33
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:28am

      I‘m just glad that MIAMI isn’t my lawyer.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:32am

      ZengaPA65

      Please back up your numbers, I given numbers in fact and you’ve given rhetorical misdirection

      You’re answering in a typical liberal formula. Dismiss, distract and deflect

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:52am

      SMACKD0WN33

      Ah I missed educating you, welcome back to class.

      I write the truth, The Church has not been perfect. It should answer too its history and correct its practices and for the most part it has but not all. I hope that it will but also explains why I’m not a Church goer. I practice my Catholic faith, my relationship with Christ and charity on my own. I commonly discuss faith and the Lord in his glory. In addition to my political views and experiences, I try to educate people to history as it happened not the kaleidoscope of Socialist Progressive interpretation.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:33am

      ZengaPA65

      Secularism or faithless communities commonly end up or leads to dictators. History has shown it time and again. Just take the French revolution for example or any faithless revolution they all end the same way. Since they have no one to answer too, they commonly see themselves as a god or godlike figures. We can even include serial killers in that bunch, though Hollywood portrays many of them as religious, they haven’t been. Omnipotence leads to harm, those crimes done by the “Church” were done by men who saw themselves as the hand of god or Omnipotent betraying the word of God.

      Once again MEN are EVIL and capable of great HARM if you don‘t understand that you can’t understand anything.

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    • StanO360
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:05pm

      Ok fidelcashflo44, so why are a small minority of people trying to purge our country of the beliefs of a vast majority? And why is any atheist offended by someone calling them evil? Evil doesn’t exist right? There is no good, no evil, no right or wrong, no eternity, no meaning (real meaning, just social constructs), so what’s the big deal? Actually why do you care about the mural in the first place, if it’s all meaningless anyway?

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    • His Shadow
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:37pm

      Can’t wait to plant a billboard outside your fence line telling how your mother is a whore. Be sure not to look at it!

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:53pm

      @MIAMI The more you write the more you agree with what I said that you initially disagreed with.

      Please post a few more paragraphs in retort so you can satisfy that insatiable desire to have the last word. ;-)

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 3:16pm

      No paragraph just defend the Secularism or faithless record of human destruction…!

      And No, I don’t agree with you. you seem to believe Church/Faith is responsible for the world’s harm and I believe Men are to blame…!

      Oh yeah and you can’t back up your bull for that matter you should change your avatar to a steaming pile

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    • KILLACOMMIE4MOMMY
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:14pm

      Fidel, My GOD your momma will do anything for a dollar!!!
      She should be on the Mc D’s Dollar menu…..or BK because you can have it YOUR way if you want!

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:25pm

      Gets the last word.

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:47pm

      @MIAMI
      “And No, I don’t agree with you. you seem to believe Church/Faith is responsible for the world’s harm and I believe Men are to blame…!”

      I never said the religion was to blame and in fact stated that I wasn’t an atheist. I said atheists could say the same things about religious people as they say about atheists. You then went on to point out a lot of evils perpetrated by religious people.
      Then recited evils perpetrated by atheists. It’s all up there in black and white. In arguing for no real reason all you’ve done was prove my point that one side is as bad as the other.

      Your reading comprehension is atrocious.

      “Oh yeah and you can’t back up your bull for that matter“ you should change your avatar to a steaming pile”

      I don‘t need to back up anything all one has to do is google to verify anything I’ve said or read an encyclopedia. In fact you have provided a lot more ammo for an anti-religious stance than I have.

      “you should change your avatar to a steaming pile”

      Send me a gif of your brainscan and I’ll gladly oblige, Einstein.

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    • JT Eberhard
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 3:31pm

      “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1)”

      Said a bunch of Bronze Age goat-herders who didn’t know enough to keep feces out of their food.

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  • ICRedifURBlue
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:09pm

    Sometime in her life she will have come to a crossroads and have to pray for someone or something – I believe most “atheists” do find God at the end, or they wish they had……….

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:32pm

      Yes, every human faces tribulations at some point in his or her life. Religious people choose to talk to an imaginary friend. Non-religious people think rationally and attempt to overcome those tribulations, without the wasted time and effort of asking a fairy man in the sky to fix them.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:36pm

      Its nice to see that you are an expert on how atheists deal with the trials of life (and the hereafter)

      ……and they say that atheists are arrogant.

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    • fidelcashflo44
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:41pm

      I’m no expert, but at least we don’t participate in the antiquated, proven-to-be-ineffective method of prayer.

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    • scarebear83
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:59pm

      “proven-to-be-ineffective method of prayer”

      http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/prayanger.htm

      Is just one study of how prayer can help.

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    • Hiswill
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:00pm

      Satan loves to blind the minds of unbelievers 2Corn.4:4

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    • boundforglory
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:52pm

      @Fidel,
      when you stand before that so-called fairy man as you call Him when He sends you into the fires of hell which you dont belive in, just keep telling yourself it isnt HOT!!

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:37pm

      @fidel, you are nothing but an angry little person who is spending his time tearing down people for their beliefs. You are happy to NOT believe in anything you wish. An American will RESPECT the beliefs of others. Hanging a prayer mural on a wall is a symbol of respect. Your insistence that it must be torn down is a form of censorship. Either you respect freedom to worship or you don’t and it is very, very clear that you do not.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:04pm

    Been on display since 1963. Obama’s “Tranformation” is affecting our traditions, and history. Just like Michelle said.

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:09pm

      “Been on display since 1963.”

      Incidentally, the year the Supreme Court ruled that state-sponsored school prayer violates the Establishment Clause.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Not to worry though! The State will put some other words up on the wall for the masses to conform to. Its a part of our historical way of life in this country. You don’t see people like this in India, Mideast or Japan trying to burn and shake out their culture from every corner of the community.

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:10pm

      If this were an Obama “Hope” poster would there be any outcry?

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:19pm

      Locked
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:09pm
      “Been on display since 1963.”

      Incidentally, the year the Supreme Court ruled that state-sponsored school prayer violates the Establishment Clause.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      1962, actually. Ironic as it might be, the Supreme Court can be wrong, which of course it is. Requiring prayer would violate the 1st amendment, but leading prayer doesn’t. There’s a tremendous difference, whether you understand it or not.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:33pm

      Yes, this is just ridiculous. Mr Palumbo’s characterisation of her as evil was a bit strong, though. “Little snot” I can go along with.

      I think everybody is aiming at the wrong target, however. Why has no-one bothered to get a comment from her parents? Have they refused to comment? Are the members of some atheist pressure group?

      If she is sixteen now, then she was fifteen when she began this action. Fifteen year olds very seldom form adult philosophies, in my experience, unless coached. “It has been a very long and difficult year for me and my family and we’re just so glad it has finally been decided,” has an adult sound to it. And she uses “we’re”.

      If I am right, the once again we see adult activists using their children on the front lines.

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    • GodHatesFigs
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:45pm

      @NZKIWI
      If fifteen year olds cannot formulate an adult philosophic position then why was there a banner on the wall advocating a specific adult philosophic position (theism)?

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:19pm

      NZKiwi – I‘m paraphrasing this but she said on her twitter account that she made her family mad by doing what she’s doing.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:26pm

      @Godhatesfigs

      Presumably because, in the sixties, a teacher suggested that they do it. Apart from “Heavenly Father” at the top, and “Amen” at the bottom, it is hardly theistic.

      In my opinion, it is rather a good prayer. And the most inoffensive thing I have seen in the news for a long time.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:30pm

      @Git-r-done

      Thanks for that info. I should have done a bit more research before making a comment that now appears a bit silly.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:44pm

      NZKIWI…..
      No, I agree that the kid is evil, and was trained by evil. She promotes supressing free speech. What will the next “offensive” sign to be removed?
      That sign was not “offending” anyone. That’s only a ruse.
      Remember, what is denied to someone today because it “offends” someone else may be denied to you tomorrow.

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    • GodHatesFigs
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:01pm

      From the Providence Journal:
      David Bradley was only 12 years old when he was asked to compose a prayer that ended up on the wall of the Cranston High School West auditorium.
      The student who wrote this prayer was 12. If a 12 year old can write this prayer, a 15 year old can object to it.
      This prayer is explicitly theistic. It is a request to an interventionist creator (heavenly father) deity.

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  • fiveft15
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:03pm

    The few being able to control the many. I do find it sad that she is being threatened but she and her parents have no right to force their minority views on the majority. And atheist are a definite minority in the US!

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:09pm

      The majority has no right to violate the First Amendment namely the Establishment Clause. We are asecular republic, the majority can not infringe on the rights of the minority.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:33pm

      @ enc

      and yet you all cry for a democracy.

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:40pm

      Not sure it is evil but from the look of her mom i would venture to guess they have matching tramp stamps

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    • momrules
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:43pm

      The atheists have become so used to being the bully and getting their way that it must be a surprise to them when someone calls them on it.
      This evil little girl is being taught by evil men and women to hate God. She won her lawsuit and expected everything to be wonderful for her in the process.

      She wronged many people and now wants to whine about how bad she is being treated by the ones she wronged. Too bad. Even good people can be driven to anger.

      Palumbo spoke his mind, something else atheists want to do but will deny that right to others.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:08pm

      @momrules

      I guess according to your world view teaching bigotry is the Christian thing to do. The Girl was a patriot that stood up against a violation of the First Amedment. The Christian Conservatives are bigots and bullys picking ona little girl that dare to stop their march towards a theocracy.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:30pm

      Enc – You just show that you‘re a paranoid psychopath by stating that we’re marching towards a theocracy.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:38pm

      on a subject of our Father its sad to see so many followers….
      2 timothy 3:1-9
      1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

      1 timothy 4:1-2
      1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:43pm

      @ENCINOM

      That’s a hell of a long march considering that banner has been up since when, 1963? And not even a hint of a “Theocracy” after all that time. We must be really bad at imposing theocracies. 50 years and no closer than the day the banner was hung.

      Yes, be afraid Encinom, be very very afraid.

      Same thing with the cross on top of the water tower. Been there forever. Guess what Encinom, no “Theocracy” Not even a hint. now all of a sudden it’s a big problem for the moron minority.

      You are being far less that honest. You and several others of you, have been spouting the new democrat fear tactic over and over lately.

      You are modern day chicken littles with a liberal bent.

      Hide the children, board up the windows, save yourselves, the theocracy is coming…..the theocracy is coming.

      You claim to be protecting the country from the advance of a far right wing Christian mob, when in reality you are trying to take down and destroy any and every connection to God that has existed for ages.

      And yet in all that time, no theocracy.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:46pm

      And JZS,

      If you are reading this, the words in the previous post are my opinion, and in no way are meant to reflect the views or opinions of this website.

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    • wvernon1981
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:56pm

      @momrules, You say the atheists are so used to bullying and getting their way. Have you seen the Christian reaction to the decision? Jessica has received threats of physical harm over this. This is a case of Christian privilege and the Christians can’t stand losing the ability to impose their beliefs in this small way.

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  • Kaoscontrol
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:02pm

    It’s almost as offensive as “In God we trust” on the dollar bill. I‘m sure Jessica Ahlquist refuses to use money since it’s so repulsive.

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  • DoremusRJessup44
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:02pm

    J.J. Crocket is 100% correct. 100% Good to know people have a brain, J.J.

    The little snot is a little evil thing. Any child, who is that bent on removing God from the public is being driven by pure evil.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Somebody contected with the Christian Conservative movement once said “Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged.” Must not of been somebody important as most Christian Conservatives ignore nearly all of his teachings.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:14pm

      “If she floats, she’s a witch!!”

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:18pm

      james 1:19-27 19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
      22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
      26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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    • john koenig
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:19pm

      @Encicom…FAIL. Open your eyes, lefty:

      http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2009/04/judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged-real.html

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:20pm

      Hey ENCINOM!!!! You have ZERO knowledge on the subject. Do you know how many idiots quote that scripture trying to trap Christians? Try reading a little more… Here’s some scripture to get started:

      These are a FEW examples of His desire for us to judge:

      1Cor. 6:2-3 Do you not know that the saints [the saved; Christians] will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

      Prov. 3:21 My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment, do not let them out of your sight;

      John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

      Jer. 22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness…

      Phil. 1:10 so that you may be able to discern [judge] what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ…

      Phil. 1:7 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you [judge you]…

      These are just a few, but hopefully enough to shut up the idiots out there.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:28pm

      @ Encinom’Mocine… that same person also said we are to judge another’s spirituality, so pull the log out of your eye before looking for splinters.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:33pm

      the sad thing is the pride,lust,wrath,greed,lies,coveting and so on is a product of all sides of this man made tradition and it turns Christian against Christian, son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother..

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:44pm

      @Kaoscontrol

      I think its you that don’t know the bible, the Letters of St. Paul and Gospel of St. John are written after the Christ. The other books you quote are from the Old Testament and would the word of the Son of God, out weigh the writtings of man?

      Again, you are another example of the small minded Christian using the writings of nomadic Goat Herders to justifiy your own bigotries.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:54pm

      encinom are you also a follower of our Father?

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:05pm

      VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:54pm
      encinom are you also a follower of our Father?
      ___________________
      Lets just say we have gone our seperate ways.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:33pm

      that’s too bad..but never too late to turn to our Father :D

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:54pm

      I Corinthians 5:9-13 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
      12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

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    • VII
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:25am

      Kaoscontrol
      the type of judgment you speak of would only be for brothers those who are outside God judges
      many more can be brought to the light if it was not presented with a trial :)

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    • VII
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:37am

      i pray you study the teachings of Christ, as well as the examples you gave of His desire for us to judge
      Proverbs 3:19-23 ,
      1Corinthians 6:4-5 ,
      1Corinthians 5:9-13,
      Philippians 1:9-11 ,
      John 7:23-24
      are all good ones, you may be missing what they are getting at when it comes to judging.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:00pm

    .
    Her goal in life is to become the R.I. Conjugal Visit Girl for the States Prison System…..

    That’s why the Banner bothers her so much……..

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    • GodHatesFigs
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:13pm

      Why are you so obsessed with the sexual assault of this sixteen year old girl? It didn’t get any laughs the first time.

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:01pm

      .
      She Started It !!!!!!!!!!!…………

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:00pm

    I don’t deny this girl her beliefs but I think the court decision was totally wrong.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:17pm

      This girl just denied you of your beliefs!!!

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:39pm

      No. This girl just denied me the DISPLAY of my beliefs. Something Christians need to remember: No one can take my belief from me.

      Put it in perspective, Christianity flourished under Roman persecution. It flourishes today in China and other closed nations. Christianity has not done so well in a free America and is all but dead in a free Europe. Maybe this girl is giving us something to fight for?

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    • GodHatesFigs
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:48pm

      You aren’t even denied the display of your beliefs, troll. The state was denied the right to display a specific set of beliefs over others.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:02pm

      “the state.” Lol, that phrase speaks volumes. You are wrong, this girl’s right to display her banner was taken from her because some other little girl apparently found the phrase, “Our Heavenly Father” offensive. There was nothing else on that banner that could be considered offensive. Just that single name. Is it that offensive to you? Was it really worth the fight? The girl with the banner did not lose, she won. She defended her faith against unreasonable oppression. She might be forced to take it down but she stood up for God. This fight is not about Him…It is about us.

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  • Whats up with that
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:59pm

    Why not just cover up Our Heavenly Father in the beginning and the Amen at the end?…The words in the sign send a great message for kids and this little bi otch can’t do anything about it…The rest of the students will know what’s covered up and the newer students to come will ask about it creating a bigger buzz…The lord can work in mysterious ways…

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:07pm

      If you painted over ‘Heavenly Father’it would probably burn through the paint like the swastika painted on the crate near the end of “Raiders of the last Ark”. Then the atheists would sue again…

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:57pm

    I am offended by Athiest, can I get them banned, they offend me everytime they speak. Can I get them silence? Athiest offend me when they breath my air, can I get them banned from the public?

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  • tzion
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:56pm

    It’s really quite amazing. Jews have no problem going to Catholic schools, I know of one Christian who was more than welcome at a Jewish school, but atheists won’t even allow a religion to appear in a school, even if it’s not being taught.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Catholic schools are private, the issue is a public school. World of differnce.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:42pm

      @ enc

      You have no idea what you are talking about. Read the Bible I might help you loose your ignorance.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:11pm

      @Leopold

      The Bible defines the difference between a public and a private school and the various different legal rights and responsibilities between the two. I mean when I read my Catholic bible it had none of that, I guess the Protestant ones are different.

      I think on legal issues I will stick with the law books, instead of books of mythology.

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    • svan71
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:54pm

      The majority in this country have a form of faith its the Godless who feel they are the only ones entitled to how that money is spent…….sick

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  • JACKW33
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:56pm

    what was that about reaping what you sow?

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:55pm

    Question:
    If she withdraws and goes to another school, will the judge allow the “ prayer ” to be rehung?

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  • Cyanide
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:55pm

    The problem I have with this stuff is with the courts and the schools and any organization who complys when ONE person is offended. What happend to majority rules? Nope. Just because little Sally doesn’t like the School Prayer, now everyone has to suffer. Just because that woman didn’t like that her nephew was graduating in a place where there was a cross, not even a crucific, but a cross, now after 60 years; everyone has to suffer. Because of ONE PERSON. I can’t stand that ****. But what I want to know is…if a bunch of the students complained that it offends them that there ISN’T a school prayer and filed a suit. Would they put it up? (I already know the answer…no)

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  • jjcrocket
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:54pm

    This is not so much about religion as it is about Communism and its core belief that the State is the highest form of order or as it were “Higher Power”. Anything that gets in the way of that government authority must be condemned and those that promote it must be punished severely. Inn the Soviet Union it meant prison in Siberia with probably death from the severe conditions. In China today the same forms of punishment are handed out, often with similar results – death. In the Muslim world similar behavior is seen when it comes to the State being the end authoritarian Allah in the theocracies. This one principle is why nations such as Syria, Iran, Egypt, etc. enjoy friendships with Communist States. An example is the love affair between Iran and Venezuela, which seem like strange bedfellows, but are actually following the same path of totalitarian bliss.

    The terms are all interchangeable. The secularists(atheists) in the USA and the Political “Progressive Movement” hide their true colors as a way to engender support in this free nation. All are Communists at heart.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:19pm

      Its about the Constitution and the fact that since the begining we were a secular republic, not a taleban styled Theocracy that the Christian Conversatives desire. Religion and pray are private matters and belong outside of the public sphere. Schools and other government entities have no right or power to sanction a school pray, that is best left to the individual student.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:31pm

      Enc – You lefties won’t even allow students or individuals to pray in schools. So don’t even try to BS us.

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    • cariboodragon
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:32pm

      better wipe your butt some of your brains are escapng

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  • HotFixIt
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:52pm

    Every kid in that school who disagrees with her should cover their books with the saying that was on the banner…. she can’t have them remove the personal book covers… let’s see her whine about the individuals free speech rights then. She doesn’t want to see it… they do… who is right/wrong????

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    • HotFixIt
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:56pm

      If it made her feel so terrible seeing it in ONE place… imagine how bad she would feel seeing it on everyones books all over the school.

      I bet she is really feeling left out now. I hope she is ….. I am sure that banner gave many pleasure when they read it… she infringed on the rights of others by having it removed.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:15pm

      The school should have it read at the beginnig of every sport meet.

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    • Karen Wyp
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:57pm

      What about marketing the idea to the school through their school newspaper?

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:50pm

    Evil is what evil does.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

    I am sick and tired of courts who allow one dissenter to make decisions for everyone! If you don’t like it, TOUGH!

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:55pm

      “If you don’t like it, TOUGH!”

      No offense intended, but this is a perfect reaction to your outrage. If you don‘t like the court’s decision, tough.

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  • MissKitty33
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:48pm

    She is definitely on the wrong road toward eternal damnation – or is that politically incorrect now? Well the truth will be revelled in the end.

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  • Drives Like Jehu
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:46pm

    Funny how those who are always screeching that “If something offends you, just don’t watch“ are the same ones who run to the nearest courtroom to force their views on others when they are oh so ”offended”. Someone should have just told her “Sweetie, just look the other way when that mean ole wall mural offends thee.”.

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    • I.Gaspar
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:54pm

      What if my kid decides he doesn’t like having to look at numbers on classroom doors because they make him think of God?
      I guess we go to the aclu and the numbers will be removed.
      It is getting out of control. We have to get rid of the progressives at every level of government.

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  • Winedude
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:44pm

    Could be the smartest girl in her school and she’s attacked by a politician…SAD!

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    • M13
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:58pm

      Could be the parents are behind the whole thing too.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:43pm

    that judge is evil, period.

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  • Locked
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:43pm

    There‘s no excuse to threaten a child with violence if they’ve done nothing wrong. Reminds me a comment made in the original article, where someone was asking for her address so as to spam her home with cards, bibles, and other items. It‘s a good measure of a person’s (lack of) worth if they think such actions are appropriate against a kid.

    If she was actually offended by the prayer, the real world is going to be a shock. But the courts ruled correctly and she doesn’t deserve to be threatened.

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    • VII
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:07pm

      matthew 5:38-46 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.

      43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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  • JPDevuyst
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:42pm

    I thought Atheists were repulsed by dualism, and don’t believe in “evil”?

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    • wvernon1981
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:50pm

      I think, for myself, when I use the word evil, it’s more of a description of an emotional reaction of aversion to something rather than an actual description of something objectively evil.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:41pm

    She is no doubt being coerced by evil people.
    We MUST vote the leftists out of office before it is too late.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Uh, what do you think is being done when parents force their religious beliefs on their children?

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:03pm

      ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Uh, what do you think is being done when parents force their religious beliefs on their children?
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      Parenting.

      The same thing as when parents force their rules, values, and morals on their kids. The same thing as when parents force their preference in clothing, taste in foods, or opinion on television and movies on their children. This is what having children is about, we are to bring them up in what we feel is the best way.

      When they come of age they are then free to make their own choices. In our case we gave all our children the opportunity to choose a different church or no church at age 16. All of them continue to serve faithfully in the church we (their parents) attend.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:42pm

      @TROLLTRAINER

      And you think they are making that choice freely?

      Their parents go there and they are afraid of disappointing their parents
      Their friends go there and they don’t want to abandon everyone they know
      They‘ve been going there for years so it’s a part of their life

      And those are only the social aspects of parents forcing their beliefs on their children. Let’s not get into the actual biblical backings of “if you don‘t believe in Jesus you’ll go to hell“ aspect and the ”you’re an evil wretched person and only through the salvation of Jesus can you be saved”

      I’m not saying there is anything wrong with a parent passing on their values. My point is, everyone calls stuff that they don’t like being taught “indoctrination” but then refuse to accept that they’re doing the same thing to their kid which is indoctrination.

      As the person in the article said, “”Poor thing. And it’s not her fault. She’s being trained to be like that.””

      Well the same negative thing can be said about children of religious parents who force their beliefs on them.

      I have had numerous people say, “don’t worry, I will teach my kids to hate you.” Is it every person of a religious belief? No but it saddens me that there are parents out there willfully teaching their kids to hate for no other reason because their parents hate.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:50pm

      There is much hate out there. Much comes from Christian circles…one only has to scan the comments in any article the Blaze publishes to see that. So what do you (generically speaking. You, or I, or anyone else) do about it? Usually we answer hate with more hate. Conversation is good, it is good to discuss differences of opinion with respect. But the anonymous internet makes it easy to troll and posture and generally meet hatred with more hate. I have to admit I do it too. I can troll with the best of them.

      It may be surprising but this story does not much bother me. I tend to agree that public schools can no longer show favoritism to Christians. It is just sad that instead of everyone having the freedom to openly display their faith we have come to a place where any display of faith is banned. It will be the demise of this country. Maybe not today or tomorrow…But it will only continue to go down the drain.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:54pm

      @trolltrainer:

      religion has little to do with values and morals and everything to do with control and brainwashing. The foundation for much of our ethics comes from the pagans, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, so much so that St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas attemtped to monkey wrench these ancient writings with the teachings of the Church.

      Good Parenting and religion do not go hand in hand, and often are opposed to each other.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:17pm

      Encinom,

      Take it somewhere else, I am not wasting any time or effort on you. You are foolish and hopelessly lost.

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  • fidelcashflo44
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:56am

    Exactly. I could go on and on about how damaging the teachings of Christianity can be for young people, but that is all beyond the point. It is a public institution, it belongs to everyone.

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  • razrbakcrzy
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:38am

    once again you are wrong look below you will see 2 more references to god and the creator…Ha ha!

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  • explody
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:58pm

    “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” – John Adams

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  • SteveTurner
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:28pm

    @Imagine115: Well said. Where have I read that before?

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:03pm

    You have been misguided. For a religion is nothing more than a belief in a cuase, the nature, and the creation of the universe. It is typical for atheist to use a play on words as defense. So i ask you again – what is your belief – did you evolve from a monkey or did God himself create the universe? Even science itself can go no further back than the singularity. But science itself says you cannot create something out of nothing. What is your belief?

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:11pm

    @imagine115 – you still avoid my question. What is your belief?

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:15pm

    You still avoid my quesion. Was is God or monkeys that you cam from? What is your belief?

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:33pm

    Which part of the old testemant would you like to debate morals on? The 10 commandments maybe?

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  • SteveTurner
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:49pm

    Debating morals in the Old Testament? Hmmm, you mean like the part about Lot offering his daughters up for gang rape? Or perhaps Abraham’s willingness to murder his own child? Or the good Lord himself massacring all the first-born in Egypt to get even with the Pharoah? Maybe you mean the policy of stoning people for non-capital crimes?
    Yes, morality certainly abounds in the Old Testament. The morality of sociopaths.

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:24pm

    By you unwillingness to answer the question i asume you subscribe to the therory of monkeys. As far as morals are concerned, with a Christian fear of answering for everything we do here on earth, we subscribe to the therory we will b judged. An atheist has no such fear and thinks whatever they do has no consequence except the moment at had. I say your fear of judgement is what drives you away from the scriptures as with other non-believers. They have no moral compass. They believe they only answer to the courts. That in itself is what brings evil in our society. Morals are not some genetic inheritance as you say. Monkeys today have no morals. If you evolved from a monkey where did that “moral” gene come from or mutate out of and why don’t monkeys have it?

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:28pm

    It is you that were spewing venom at the Christian belief – what difference does our belief have and what was your point? You have no valid argument that atheism isn’t a cult or belief as is christianity. You hide from behind your secrecy of the computer. I on the other hand am not ashamed to say i believe in God, the banner stated good morals for all children, and i don’t think i came from a monkey.

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:11pm

    The breathe of your wisdom of the old kingdoms is amazing. So is your belief in the meanings of words. I bet you are secretly a theologian and a road scholar too. I can clearly see your argument is factual based and has nothing to do with politics but everything to do with the teaching andnwell being of the children of our society. Who would want such blatants lies like that displayed on a banner where they could read them every day . . .

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