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School Refuses to Run Teen Atheist’s Article Alleging Teachers & Officials‘ ’Pro-Christian’ Constitutional Violations

Is Krystal Myers the next Jessica Ahlquist? If you’re unfamiliar with the latter, she’s the 16-year-old Rhode Island girl atheist who successfully fought to have a prayer mural removed from her high school. Myers, too, is a non-believer who is alleging that her Lenoir City, Tennessee, high school refused to allow her column about her atheism to run in the school newspaper.

TN School Refuses to Publish Atheist Students Article | Krystal Myers

Myers, 18, who says she knew there would be opposition to her views on matters of faith and religion, is the editor of her Lenoir City High School newspaper, The Panther Press. Her editorial, “No Rights: The Life of an Atheist,” documents the challenges the young girl perceives as a result of her non-belief in a school that she describes as overtly Christian.

Additionally, it wages some bold accusations against administrators of church-state separation violations. “Myers’ editorial…accused school administrators, teachers and coaches of violating the constitution by promoting ‘pro-Christian’ beliefs during school-sponsored events,” Knox News reports.

“As a current student in government, I have realized that I feel that my rights as an atheist are severely limited and unjust when compared to other students who are Christians,” she wrote in the article. Here’s more from her piece (which can be read in its entirety here):

Before I even begin, I just want to clear up some misconceptions about Atheism. No, we do not worship the “devil.” We do not believe in God, so we also do not believe in Satan. And we may be “godless” but that does not mean that we are without morals. I know, personally, I strive to be the best person I can be, even without religion. In fact, I have been a better person since I have rejected religion. And perhaps the most important misconception is that we want to convert everyone into Atheists and that we hate Christians. For the most part, we just want to be respected for who we are and not be judged. [...]

There are several instances where my rights as a non-believer, and the rights of anyone other than a Christian, have been violated. These instances inspired me to investigate the laws concerning the separation of church and state, and I learned some interesting things. However, first, I would like you to know specifically what my grievances are against the school. First and foremost is the sectarian prayer that occurs at graduation every year.

In the past, the high school senior’s articles have apparently run without incident, but this article was a different story. District superintendent Wayne Miller says he didn’t want the editorial to become a distraction at the school, but he hasn’t commented further on the matter. Myers says she doesn’t think publishing the piece would have created many problems among the student body.

According to Dr. Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C., the school does have the right to control the information disseminated by students.

TN School Refuses to Publish Atheist Students Article | Krystal Myers

“I didn’t think it was fair, honestly, but, I mean, they do get to say what‘s in the newspaper and what’s not in it,” Myers said about the decision not to run the article. “That’s just their decision.”

Already, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Atheist Party have reached out to the young girl, with the latter offering to publish her editorial. Interestingly, Myers isn’t angry with administrators and, despite seeing their decision as unfair, she understands their concerns.

“I feel like it should be able to be censored because some topics just don’t need to be talked about or written in a school, and I’m sure you can think of which topics and things like that, and so, I think that there should be a little bit of government around there,” she explained.

(H/T: WBIR.com)

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  • davetrav
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:18pm

    It is about time those in charge tell these JERKS –NO—. The couert in our country would do much better saying NO to people that think America needs to change for every TOM, DICK, and HARRY.
    WE speak english, freedom of religion , have holidays like xmas, etc,etc. I say if you don’t like our country–LEAVE IT.–GOD BLESS AMERICA

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    • MarsBarsTru7
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:27pm

      I can see it now. The future of social groups in high schools – From now on kids will “go gay” or become “atheists” if they feel like they’re outcasts and it will just be them fighting for “their right to be who they really are.”

      Sickening.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:33pm

      I agree – if you dont like the nation leave.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:10pm

      Wasn’t this nation founded on religious freedom, which means Snowcat the right not to pray and not to be forced to state fidelity to some made up sky father.

      Also, the larger point here is that the PUBLIC SCHOOL must represent all of its students and not show favortism to any one group, that ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE again. Further, one of the checks on the government is the fourth estate, the press and its ability to freely publish an accounting of governmental wrong doing and violations of the Constitution.

      So Beckerheads, do you want a Constitutional republic with individual liberties or a democratic theocracy that the founders rejected?

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:21pm

      A couple of years ago, my daughter’s class (she was a senior in high school) got an assignment: to take a position on an issue, write about your position and make a poster. My daughter made a poster showing a bride and a groom with the caption: “Marriage — One Man and One Woman.” The poster was put up in the hallway with all of the other posters made by the class. Her teacher was approched by an agitated student. She told the teacher that my daughter’s poster had to come down because of “separation of church and state.” The teacher told the student that they were going to allow all of the posters to stay up. Then the little brownshirt-in-training tore down my daughter’s poster. I only know about this because the teacher saw it and told my wife. He said that he was going to “take care of it” — but I know that Lil’ Miss Brownshirt was never expelled.

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    • thetreyman
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:44pm

      every time i hear “separation of church and state” all i can think of is the racist, anti catholic, KKK member Justice Hugo Black that the left and radical atheists are more than happy to get into bed with.

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:14pm

      @encinom Okay first off I have got bored of using scientific method vs atheist view points so unless you say something in response on your reasoning that there is no God I won’t bother.
      Religious freedom means the right not to pray and the right to pray, for all people in all ways. Just as the Christian’s are to respect the rights of other religions to pray, atheist should respect the rights of any religion to pray.
      The 4th estate: What are you a dope!! “the press and its ability to freely publish” umm so go for it write an article about your pet turtle for the new York Times, when they dont publish it are you going to complain the government gave you that right to have it published. No you dip, you have the right to write it but that doesn’t mean people have to publish it. 2points- I wrote an article about all the sluts in my school and turned it in to the school paper. Not published! So I printed the article myself and handed it out. Detention! Damn I didnt know the constitution was violated!!! pssst school kids dont have all their rights for whatever reason, I mean you have to go against your will to begin with.
      democratic theocracy…. No lightweight that is muslim countries minus the democratic. The founders didnt want a state religion, as in you had to be X to have status in the country. The real question is why do you care if people pray? Does your skin burn or something, or do you just think they are dumb? In truth your the fool and I can prove it with scienc

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:37pm

      @Christhefarmer
      You can not use the Scientific method to prove there is a God, their is no testable evidence. Actually if their was that would negates religion’s need of Faith. Faith is the opposite of science, faith must be unprovable.

      Nobody is taking away a Christian’s right to pray, the issue is that an agency of the Government must remain neutral when it comes to religion and not endorse one set of beliefs over another. You want to pray. knock yourself out, just don‘t do it on the Public’s dime, using tax payer funded institution.

      As for the 4th estate, did you read the article. She was the editor of the school’s newspaper attempting to report the fact that the school was failing to abide by the Constitution.

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:05pm

      Process of elimination can be used so that scientific theories are close enough to law that they are treated as such. But yeah God can not be proven, but nothing else about creation can be either. The difference is one is impossible under it’s own standards and the other is possible under both standards.
      “Government must remain neutral when it comes to religion and not endorse one set of beliefs over another.” So government should teach both Intelligent Design theory and whatever Big Bang theory we have moved to now. See that’s the real deal here government does endorse secularism, all people of religion are asking for is their rights to be treated in the same way. Evolution, big bang, sex ed, homosexuality, social justice, environmentalism, ect ect. All these things are endorsed be the schools, and kids have their Bibles taken from them at school. If you say you think it is wrong for two guys to kiss you get suspended. A teacher can stand up in class and say there is no God and this is why. That’s okay. But if the teacher stood up in class and said there is a God and this is why. Nope your in trouble. “Government must remain neutral when it comes to religion and not endorse one set of beliefs over another.“ They already teach ”TEACH” one side, but my side can’t pray for the players before a football game, or for a good life at graduation. I would say the imbalance of time in those two things is unfair but people must really fear Gods power to complain on a few mi

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:15pm

      Out o space… Doesn’t really matter if she is the editor all schools have the rights to do whatever they want…. Very screwed up I know but that is just how it is. Girl got arrested for praying over the intercom at a football game when I was growing up. I cant run up and down the halls cussing, I cant come and go as I wish, if I dont show up cops come to my house. If I fall asleep in class I get sent to detention, if I write in my personal journal I want to burn the school down I go to jail…. Yeah so not many rights in there. Class presidents really have no power and school news paper editors answer to the teacher that teaches that class and they answer to the principle who answers to the super……. But yeah I see no harm in letting her publish her little article, but let me publish my story on how easy she is.

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    • Guttersmack
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:17pm

      ENCINOM, You only want to stir the excrement. Don’t gag on your own sense of self-righteous superiority…. I don’t even read what you post by the way, there is no need anymore since you are monotonously repetitive in your desire to be combativ and be relevant. I just happened to see you were out trolling for attention so I though I would do the charitable thing and throw you a bone…

      But dont stay up to late, don’t forget that Mom has to take you early tomorrow to the bookstore for your weekly Magik or D&D group, or the comic book club or whatever useless activity you fill your day with.

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:34pm

      Point on science thoughts on creation: Find any container in your house, we will call the space within the box existence or reality. Now the space in that box represents the space into which reality exist. If the box did not exist there would be no place within the box for objects to exist, being there is no space for anything to exist it would be impossible for anything to exist to create the space to exist within. This is under the laws of our existence.

      God does not exist under those same laws being he created the laws that govern our reality. That being said we have no way of understanding his start point, it is beyond us, but it is scientifically possible, unlike the other which is impossible.

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    • DontCompromiseMorals
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:37am

      Maybe she should try living in a non Christian nation for a while…
      Who is she going to pray to help if she had cancer?
      Sad.
      I feel sorry for her.
      Right now, this poor child is a lost soul and needs to be lifted up in prayer.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:11am

      Take your kids out of the government schools, all they teach is sharia and pedophilia.

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    • Tavo
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:13am

      We will not leave the US, and what christians fail to comprehend, is that it isn’t a war against them. If there was a public school forcing Buddhist beliefs on children we would fight that as well. (as would your hypocritical selves) But they aren’t, its the christians who can’t seem to get it through their thick self righteous skulls that we are advocating zero religion in public schools. Your freedom of religion extends so far as it doesn’t interfere with anothers. So, practice whatever you would like to at home. Leave your public displays of ignorance out of public view. Science flies us to the moon, religion flies us into buildings.

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    • little big man
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:22am

      she is 18 and still in high school? guess she didn’t learn what the correct meaning is between Separation of church and state means in the constitution.

      Don’t worry honey, their must be a strip club out there that will hire you.

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    • rubbedlung
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:03pm

      the foundation of our democracy

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    • Roy Baty
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:22pm

      As much as I believe in the Bible, it is not a good convincing proof to smack down the atheist. That would come from the evidence of Intelligent Design and the failure of Darwinism. Everyone knows there are no transitional fossils, and much of what is in “evolution” text books are lies. There is much scientific evidence to hit these atheists with to show them that their “science” is just like marxism and global warming, i.e. fraudulent!

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    • Charlesjr
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:36pm

      The Founders purpose for the First Amendment was meant to only prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, NOT to restrain public religious expression, period!!!!

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    • scarebear83
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:50pm

      Encinom, When I was in high school they would allow cheerleaders to say a prayer before the football game. I don‘t believe it’s right for women to lead prayers in mixed groups. Did I find it offensive? Yeah. Did I try to petition the school to stop that practice? No. I stood there silently out of respect for everyone else’s wishes. Just because a person is praying or mentioning God does not mean one has the right to silence their beliefs simply because they’re offended.

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    • puravida56
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:18pm

      It is refreshing to see the youth of america stand up to government and authority and stand behind the constitution.

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:54pm

      “I say if you don’t like our country–LEAVE IT.”
      So, when will you be leaving?

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    • Christhefarmer
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:55pm

      Dude schools teach secularism, and they make it a religion by having it not based on facts. Schools teach big bang theory, or higs particle theories now, both require you to have faith that something could come from nothing. It’s fine in school to teach that there is a mother earth and that you should worship it. We are not asking for the schools to teach our beliefs, what we are saying is if you are going to teach beliefs of “mans religions” then give us equal time, stop teaching bs science in a way to undermine religion then we have no problem. Now if kids want to get together and pray let them and if a teacher wants to join in let them and if the community wants the school to pray over the pa system at football games let them. “What about the minority that doesnt want to hear prayers.” Umm just like everything else in this society majority is suppose to rule, you be respectful of others but you dont allow the minority to control your speech. Praying is just words to non-believers, God is something that is imaginary. If you can shut us up, then that means if you were consistent you should be able to stop kids and teachers from talking about books, movies, music, philosophers, and theories. Because in simple terms religion is just someone following principles and if Christians cant talk about the one who set their principles, then why should you be able to talk about anything. I mean it’s all just words right?

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

      “Who is she going to pray to help if she had cancer?”
      To the doctors who can actually save her life.

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    • db321
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:22pm

      My my what a little demon witch the Courts have created – I’m sure our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

      Does anyone know what the Bible meant when it say “Good would become Evil and Evil would become Good”. That’s impossible – the Bible has a lot of little praises that don’t mean anything – in the real world!

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:43pm

      @Christhefarmer
      Creationism or the lie “Intelligent Design” has no basis in facts or science. There is the same amount of evidence for the Hindu or Norse creation myths as there is for Intelligent Design. True science is tested and theories change as evidence is presented and discovered.

      Secularism is not a religon, science is not a religion. Evolution, the Big Bang theory, etc are all theories that are taught not to be accepted on blind faith like religion, but to be tested and debated. Teastable theories and facts are what is taught in todays schools, not some mystical mumble jumble.

      The Hallmark of today’s Christian Conservatives is pure ignorance. You celebrate your ignorance its the only thing your faith gives you. The truth has been laid out before you, but you run towwards the old supersitions of yesterday.

      The Christians do not hold the deed to this nation. The Founders set up a secular republic not a mindless christian theocracy. The Establishment Clause, the prohibition against religious tests is evident of the Founders intent. Keep God out of public buildings. Pray on your own time not on the Tax Payer’s dime.

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:14am

      Encinom- If you are looking for answers for the gaps between the creatioinist theory and the evolutionary theory read Genesis Revisited by Zecharia Setchin. You may find the answers backed by both science and religous texts. If nothing else it is a good read.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:35pm

      mabey she should sue the paper, and FORCE THE PAPER TO PRINT WHAT SHE THINKS THE PAPER SHOULD… that would be fair and equitable right?

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    • patricking49
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:32pm

      Who are you, the Christian Taliban? There is no God. I don’t agree with you at all. I‘m not leaving and if you want to keep stuffing the completely unsubstantiated nonsense you think you believe down everyone’s throat, we’re going to do the same thing. How about a nice big banner across the street from your church reading “GOD IS DEAD” — Nietzsche. We can make this just as ugly and unpleasant as you want… but I’m not leaving. You leave!

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    • Kitkarr
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:08am

      Encinom – All of the theories you stated are just that – theories. They aren’t scientific fact, just as Intelligent Design can’t be considered scientific fact. You and those who share your beliefs have just as much “faith” involved in your worship as Christians do.

      Everyone on both sides needs to get off the high horse and soapbox and realize that its not all about us. Never has been, never was intended to be, never will be.

      Christthefarmer had several good points that I think went over most peoples’ heads, but he is wasting his time. If The Holy Spirit doesn’t reveal The Truth of His Word to a lost and dying sinner, then that sinner will continue in his/her own darkness. Most often, The Holy Spirit doesn’t choose to do that in a debate setting. The presentation of The Gospel is what we are resposible for, nothing else. If It is rejected, we move on.

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    • mygreenhandy
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:00am

      @DavTrav:A

      Native Americans: “Welcome, share our food. We call it Thanksgiving.”
      Europeans: “THis is OUR food now. We got it, we got guns, so run West! NOW before we kill you!”

      .Next: ..Trail of Tears…

      So much for your righteous position. You espouse hate in the fabulous, invasive, destructive, Christian, European tradition.

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  • Linny
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:11pm

    China seems like a more suitable country for this kid than the USA.

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    • Unc68
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:41pm

      Now, I feel she has every right not to believe in God. I wonder how she became a “better person” by rejecting God, but that is her story, so I won’t question it. I think it is sad that she feels that her rights are being violated by other people expressing their beliefs in public and perhaps her article should be published, but in all fairness along with an article written on the opposing view.
      I do not understand how her beliefs are violated. I pretty much figured any public school in America violates Christian’s rights on a daily basis in favor of the anti-theist. Perhaps she is hoping to get a scholarship as well for trampling on the beliefs of others because of her new found non-belief.
      As for China, she may not have to wait long and the Maoist in the White House will make it so she does not have to leave this country to enjoy destroying the rights of believers.

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Why China? The Chinese are hardly irreligious. Many of my relatives are Chinese so I’ve heard all about it. I can attest the average Chinese believes in all sorts of superstition. Like Christians, Chinese see gods everywhere in everything and know with great certainty there are dozens of heavens and many more hells. Like Christians, Chinese believe there are hungry ghosts, wandering ghosts and holy ghosts. And while they don’t say Jesus, they do call the same spirit Buadibusa or, separately, Buddha and instead of heaven they say ‘Tien’ but the layers of faith in invisible unknowables are for the average Chinese almost Catholic. Mao Zedung, the founder of the ChiCom Party and the author of its insanity, slept with his head pointed north for reasons occult. You could even say he was Popish. No, China is even more spiritual than a lot of America and the people there believe the emperor a God-like visage: vengeful, all-knowing; the creator of heaven and hell and in many ways exactly like a Christian God.

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  • godhatesacoward
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:11pm

    I do believe if you are an atheist your stance on religion is moot.

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:11am

      If God is incomprehensible to man, it seems rational never to think of Him at all. God a chimera and a mute, invisible God is not needed for morality. In fact, whether there exists a God or not, men’s moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature.

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    • Tavo
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:57am

      Maybe if you read your own bible then atheists wouldn’t have to teach you about it. Your username says all that needs to be known about you. Your ‘god’ doesn’t hate any person, so why don’t you and your kind quit breeding such an ignorant hatred towards others. Your churches talk about a paradise in the next life, but all you want is power in this one. You don’t even have the confidence in your own various preachings to be able to tolerate other sects of the same religion. its saddening and pathetic

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    • Roy Baty
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:28pm

      If MIYEGOMBO thinks morality is unchanged whether we believe in God or not, maybe she can explain why over 100 million people were murdered by atheists in the 20th Century and why more Christians were murdered for their religion in the 20 Century than all previous centuries combined. The rise of atheism is the rise of Satan.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:11pm

      @Roy Baty
      100 million murdered in the 20th century for their religion, by atheists?
      Help me understand your figures. Even if I grant you Stalin was atheistic, which is debateable, his reasons for militant mass murder was not religious. 6 million of 11 million holocaust victims were Jewish, and therefore would not be included in the murdered Christian number, nor can one claim Hitler’s Third Reich was an atheist regime, as there are exactly no primary sources to support such a claim.
      Please explain your arguments.

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    • patricking49
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:44pm

      It’s hard not to think about God when you have a series of collective organizations in every city and town broadcasting their shared psychosis to every ear. I have one opinion about religion: it is a con perpetrated by con artists to exploit suckers for sex and money. Come up to reality. Everyone has an internal dialogue. Your’s in NOT with the creator of the universe.

      I have to wonder how adults can be so stupid, a magic spirit who lives in the sky forever and ever and you have to beg to it so all your dreams come true. Look at it for what it is and snap out of it. Your family has been hypnotized long enough.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:03pm

    The Life Cycle of a Nation

    http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2008/11/03/the-life-cycle-of-nation/

    ‘The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.’

    ‘During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

    1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
    2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
    3. from courage to liberty;
    4. from liberty to abundance;
    5. from abundance to complacency;
    6. from complacency to apathy;
    7. from apathy to dependence;
    8. from dependence back into bondage.

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  • CANDLEMAKER
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:02pm

    Put ALL “atheists” on a plane that is going down…..SEE HOW MANY PRAY THE LORD’S PRAYER when they realize they are about to die !!! What a lonely weird world these people live in!! If push ever came to shove I would MUCH rather be surrounded by good, loving, law abiding, respectful, bible reading/ following, praying, God fearing people than by atheists!! Seesh… ever since Obama has been in office …more and more of these NUTS are coming out of the closet!! Anybody BUT Obama 2012!!! Time to take our country BACK!!!!!

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    • Marci
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:12pm

      If she has an issue where she is accusing the school of violating the constitution, THAT is why it wasn’t run. I am a little fed up with some atheists who are insistent upon infringing on OTHERS rights to keep from being exposed to any religion. Don’t believe in it? Fine. You do not have the right to demand that you never ever be exposed to it. Furthermore, did you note that she mentioned Christianity as the culprit? Not any other religion–in fact, she noted that they too have no rights in this school. Really? She idiotically has been coached by others who have her believing the nonsense she spouts. And like a good little moldable puppet, she is going straight for Christianity. When any of these atheists start manning up and mentioning the crap going on with extra rights given to Muslims and the eggshells everyone is expected to walk on so as not to offend them, MAYBE I will begin to take them seriously. Are they fighting against Satanism too? That is a religion. No, just Christianity. Atheist activists need to regroup and either get their message together and coherent or shut the heck up. If they aren’t willing to admit their fight is just against Christianity, then they are even more transparent than they could imagine.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:30pm

      said an old US combat veteran:

      an atheist shot in the guts on the battlefield always screams loudest for God or Jesus to save him.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:59pm

      When I was in the Army, if I had been shot in the gut, you can bet your ass I wouldnt be screaming for god. I would be screaming for a medic, and I guarentee the medic would do much more to save my life then god would.

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:17am

      Put all the Christians on a crashing plane and watch them pray and pray as it goes down and then watch them all die because no God cares if a particular planeload crashes and burns.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:52pm

      @burnthills
      I AM an old combat veteran, and I know your “old US combat veteran” is full of it.
      I have had plenty of religious soldiers tell me of how their blood ran cold when they thought they were facing the end; I know as many soldiers lose their faith on the battlefield as find it.
      I have never had a doubt, not even as a kid, that man made god and not the other way around, and I was sent to Catholic schools through high school, but if I had ever doubted, my combat experience would have settled those doubts quick.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:01pm

    Yeah, you’re a better person alright. Since you are the better person, we will let you cast the first stone.

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:01pm

    this bunch is as thin skinned as the gay people are no need to empower them anymore

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  • CANDLEMAKER
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:57pm

    Put ALL “atheists” on a plane that is doing down…..SEE HOW MANY PRAY THE LORD’S PRAYER when they realize they are about to die !!! What a lonely weird world these people live in!! If push ever came to shove I would MUCH rather be surrounded by good, loving, law abiding, respectful, bible reading/ following, praying, God fearing people than by atheists!! Seesh… ever since Obama has been in office …more and more of these NUTS are coming out of the closet!! Anybody BUT Obama 2012!!! Time to take our country BACK!!!!!

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:05pm

      Taking advantage and abusing the system…..and on her resume at such a young age! Shoe in for a scholarship to U C Berkly….

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    • holy ghostbuster
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:21am

      If God is the co-pilot, how could the plane go down in the first place?

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  • mlaslavic
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:54pm

    first off kiddo respect is earned in the real world not assigned as the liberals would have you believe. just because you demand respect at least at this time you can not force anyone to respect you just because you think they should. Second kiddie, all these rights that you claim for your media pals and the lawyers you will have for free to litigate the school into submission….could you share them with those you will force to into submission? Curious does anyone except you have rights? For instance what give you the right to force your lack of faith on every one else? As far as censorship I’ll bet we could make a huge list of subjects your peers would have rejected also….to protect your sensibilities. You need for attention is very progressive clearly, look at all the special attention your getting from the media and golly maybe you too can get a scholarship like that other absurd attention getting girl out east that was all choked up over a prayer that had been on the wall for decades. Again I’d love a list of all those rights atheists are being denied just so we can see how horrible your world is you know with no rights and all. Hey and while your digging deep for all those lost rights remember how thrilled the rest of are when people like you use laws for all to carve out a society that a handful of people like you are comfortable in while the rest us wait for the next part of our culture you and your kind will destroy for your selfish self aggrandizing ego

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  • deadend
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:52pm

    Atheist are so pathetic, nothing after this life so nothing matters what they do think love it does not matter because you die it’s gone done finito no wonder they are all bitter jerks.

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    • NJBarFly
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:01am

      This may be asking too much, but how about a little punctuation or dare I say, proper grammar?

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:58pm

      Bitter jerks? Sounds like just about every “good Christian” I’ve ever met.

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    • SovereignSoul
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:02pm

      Perhaps, because there is nothing after this life, atheists believe that this life is there only opportunity to do ‘good’. Why do you assume that all people are basically evil from the start? Atheist can’t be “forgiven” so they perform their charitable acts and good deeds in this life because it is the only one they have.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:52pm

    The school should run the article and make it a school project to debunk any false claims in the article by way of the true historic language and intent of the Constitution. Including quotes from the founding fathers about America and religion. Also use historical legal precedent from the last 230yrs. That should settle the matter and be a learning experience for all. Afterwards, that would probably be the most knowledgeable school in America on the subject. Here endeth the lesson……………….

    After all, it‘s not the majority’s fault that atheists CHOOSE to make themselves a minority in America.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:01pm

      So your solution would be to PRETEND to believe so as not cause waves?

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:42am

      @Rainman3769

      Feeling pretty full of yourself just because they made a movie about you?

      If your comprehension skills were a little sharper, you would realize that the solution that I was suggesting is education. Atheists have no Constitutional grounds to pitch a fit about public displays of Christianity. But one has to be educated about the subject first. The atheist can just be themselves and shut up about laws and discrimination that doesn’t exsist. Name just one Christian campaign against atheists………………….

      http://www.allabouthistory.org/separation-of-church-and-state.htm

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:50pm

      @Rational Man,

      Execpt for the fraud Barton that Beck pimps, you lose. First the US Supreme Court has been since the 1940′s pretty clear on the issue, namely religion has no place in the public schools. But beyond, the founders sought to create a wall of seperation between Church and State. The establishment clause, the religious test clause are clear proof that the Nation was to be secular. You can not debunk facts and can only use lies and distort the truth, much like Barton.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:00pm

      @encinom

      Plain an simple, you are a liar and a troll. You have built up a solid reputation as such on this website. No one takes anything you post seriously and most, (like me), don’t even read your ignorant posts anymore. Only people new to the site or ones that like to argue with idiots. Your posts mean nothing and you wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you. I feel sorry for anyone who’s life is as pathetic as yours. But if you think it lends relevance to your pathetic exsistance to keep posting, go for it. And we’ll keep ignoring them…………………..

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  • TwoMinuteMan
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:48pm

    Maybe the school has a policy against inflammatory religious articles. Dont doubt for a second that atheism isnt a religion just as Environmentalism is.

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:22am

      Atheism is a religion the same way not believing in the tooth fairy is a religion. Christians, too, are atheists when it comes to other religions.

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  • armymp
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:46pm

    Smart girl… she’s setting herself up for a huge pay day with the help of the ACLU and other dirt-bag anti God organizations.

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    • Unc68
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:44pm

      Please refrain from calling these people dirt bags, that is slanderous to actual bags of dirt.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:56pm

      LOL! The same thought crossed my mind! She must not be lined up for any scholarships so she’s setting up a big payday so she can sue and pay for college.

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  • toto
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:44pm

    Hope people see the irony. This young woman doesn’t want to prayer in the graduation ceremony, but is lamenting her exclusion from the paper! That’s the trouble with liberals, they want to be free to express anything they want anytime they want, but are more than fine with preventing believers expressions of gratefulness and requests for guidance in ceremonies like graduation and daily living.

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  • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:43pm

    Hey, Sweetie! Hate to tell you but you are not an atheist! You are an ANTI-THEIST. Big difference. You see, if you truly were an atheist, you wouldn’t give a cr+p what us believers believed. You just want to believe that there is no God. This also proves that you aren’t an atheist because you have your own religion.
    Have a nice afterlife!

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:35pm

    Garbage goes in Garbage comes put.Wonder who fed it to her.

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  • omgfolks
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:35pm

    I support your right to believe but not what you believe. I support your right to publish, but not what you published. I think those who denied your rights should be sanctioned and pay the price to make all know restricting of freedoms will not be tolerated. Whether you agree with someone’s opinion or not you do not have a right to restrict them from it… Shame on the school for even letting it get this far, the lesson learn should have been to accept, respect and tolerate, instead we taught hate, division and dominance.. No wonder out kids are jacke up, look how they are being taught.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:04pm

      That’s the part of the argument that seems lost here. Censorship is wrong and even dangerous, yet let’s focus in on trashing an atheist teenage girl, who coule possibly find god someday if she weren’t exposed to so many sanctimonious assclowns.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:33pm

    …
    Hey Atheist, get over it. YOU are the minority.
    In a properly functioning society, the majority rules.
    America was fine, until Obama changed the rules of society.

    Next time an Atheist goes on trial and is judged by a jury, let just one of twelve jury members decide their fate, instead of the majority.
    Let’s see how Atheist like minority rule.

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:00pm

      Maybe you should re-think that position….another way to describe this is “mob rule” which we do not have in the USof A. At least we are not supposed to have. We used to be a nation of laws and this is how society is supposed to function in the United States.

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    • Pbirv
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:07am

      Funny, the Germans said the exact same thing to the Jews once.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:32pm

    freedom of speech is being denied by the christian extremist in our schools. it’s bad enough kids are forced to sing x-mas carols at school events . schools need to be free of religious mumbo jumbo

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    • ToddinVB
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:45pm

      Thank you for that. It’s been a tough week and I needed a laugh. Almost fell out of my chair..

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    • momsense
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:59pm

      The only mumbo – jumbo here is you. Stop trying to dedfine for others what it is in which you say you don’t believe.

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:07pm

      momsy- if it makes you feel better I don’t believe in Islam either

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:39pm

      Glad to see STEELHEAD can have a opinion… Billy
      I just want to know is it YOU or GLENN that objects to mine ?

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:53pm

      OK .. Now I have to censor my remark, to find out why it will not post .
      Let see …is it
      God.. ? Founding Fathers ? Creator ? Constitution ? Atheist ?
      Or all used together.?

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    • Hope_and_Restore
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:19pm

      I’m sorry that you consider it “mumbo-jumbo”. I know that it is God, not the government, that is the source of all good, and that good is to be encouraged, not squelched. Nobody is forcing kids to sing Christmas carols; in fact, outright Christmas songs have been chased right out of most schools. If you don’t want to sing a Christmas carol, you have the right to opt out (as I have opted out of my children participating in some things I oppose). I also have the right to sing those songs, as do my children. I have the right to live my religion– out in the open, not hiding behind some politically-correct ideals, and not beating on you (figure of speech) for your beliefs. You have the right to live as you believe, and to not complain and make demands on my beliefs.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:30pm

    You have the right to remain silent.

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  • chips1
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:29pm

    Each time they print an article, the paper has several margins that are promoting athiest view points. That’s why they are blank. If you believe in nothing, the margin says it all.

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  • omgfolks
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:27pm

    Well you have your opinion, and I beleive you have a right to publish it you wish. I may not agree with your choices, but then I do not have too. I support your effort to defend your position but not your position. I support your right to believe but not what you beleive. In short, you have that right and I do not have to right to prevent you from excercising that right. Those who restricted your right should be sanctioned for the violation in a manner that informs others that this is wrong and punishable. good for you for standing up for your rights. God b Bless.

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    • ToddinVB
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:51pm

      While I agree with most of your point, I’m not sure the school is under any obligation to print anything a student submits. No one denied her free speech (IMHO), just her platform.

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    • omgfolks
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:07pm

      Failure to allow her article did restrict her free speech my friend. But hey I can agree to disagree if that is your opinion. Thank you for the respectful dialog

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  • janedough1
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:26pm

    If you are outraged, pull your kids out and home school or private school. Each time Christian parents complain loudly and then send their kids back to school on Monday morning, you are showing tacit approval. If they start losing 100,000 kids nationwide each time they pull this, they’ll stop. Whether they lose money or not, they are losing the hearts and minds of your kids, and that is what they chiefly want. They cannot pull off a communist/atheist revolution by preaching only to their choir. They need your kid too. Deny them what they want.

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    • Santorum_is_a_douchebag
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:33pm

      She should run for President and say God told her too like Cain Bachmann and Slick Rick if she wants to be accepted.

      Santorum_is_a_douchebag  
    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:37pm

      …
      janedough1…
      I totally agree.
      People, pull your kids out of public schools.

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:51pm

      Santorum_is_a_niceguy….. you don’t exist, I clicked on your name and it says

      Member Since: February 25, 2012……………………………..???????????????

      today is 2-24-12

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    • momprayn
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:29pm

      POLARIZED — LOL — good one!

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    • MS Patriot
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:36pm

      I have pulled my kids out of public schools for the last 18 years non of my children have had to endure the propaganda of the socialist controlled brain washing system ran by the Federal government.

      But I’m tired of making those decisions in a country founded by men who knew our country was established for Christians and by Christians. If you don’t like it, go find another country. As far as I‘m concerned I’m tired of having to compromise my beliefs in order to allow others to feel better about how pathetically they live their lives.

      I have sworn to up hold the laws of this land once and I am not afraid to do it again. Whether in the voting both or out in the streets, if it’s a fight they wish to have then a fight is what this Christian will give.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:18pm

      The founder gave us a SECULAR REPUBLIC, not a CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY. IF the public school is openingly promoting religion as alledged than the school is in violation of the First Amendment.

      If you Christians have a problem leave the country, move to Iran they love religious fanatics over there.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:37pm

      encinom: You just don’t get it, do you? My God and my religion make total sense and everybody should have to practice it. It’s all the other religions out there that are the dangerous nutjobs!

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    • RedSoloCup
      Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:45pm

      I see we have yet another HuffPoop refugee, known as “Santorum_is_a_douchebag”

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  • shogun459
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:24pm

    Once they paid the first one the race was on another Gold Digger Scam artist.
    Either that or She and her family hate Christians.

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    • tamara13
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:16am

      Exactly what I was thinking. Young so called atheists crawling out of the woodwork to get their big $40,000 pay day!

      Could it possilby be that the girl’s article was just plain uninteresting?

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 7:21pm

    They are coming out of the woodwork

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