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• Atheists to Fly July 4 Airplane Banners in 27 States: ‘God-LESS America,‘ ’Atheism is Patriotic’

  July 1, 2011 at 5:05pm

  In reply to nugykent.

  Oh, did your see your deity? Wait, that’s right, they don’t exist. My bad.

• Atheists to Fly July 4 Airplane Banners in 27 States: ‘God-LESS America,‘ ’Atheism is Patriotic’

  July 1, 2011 at 4:58pm

  In reply to Charybdis.

  Actually, the vast majority of these ‘God-fearing men’, whom I’m assuming are the founding fathers, were deists. They believed that the earth was created and therefore has a creator, but that creator has since been completely inactive. They don’t believe in prophecies or miracles. They don’t believe in your god.
  They made this country so that they and the other new Americans could practice their own religion – or their lack of one – in peace. They wanted a separation of the church and state so that it would stay that way.
  In addition, as a side note, I find theists to be far more oppressive than atheists, in general. For instance, this outcry over gay marriage is insane. Why shouldn’t two people who love each other be allowed to marry? I know couples who have married purely out of convenience, and were allowed to do so merely because they had different genitals and said they wanted to, but these two people who love each other more than anything else in the world, they can’t get married, because the religious majority is somehow being oppressed by it.

• Atheists to Fly July 4 Airplane Banners in 27 States: ‘God-LESS America,‘ ’Atheism is Patriotic’

  July 1, 2011 at 4:50pm

  In reply to Baron_Doom.

  We don’t shove our views down your throats! In recent studies, it’s been noted that the majority of Americans would not elect an atheist president, and that being an atheist is as bad or worse than being a pedophile.
  There are children of atheists who are having religious views shoved down their throats, not by their religious friends or family members, but by their school teachers. Assuming you’re Christian, how much would you enjoy it if your child was taught that Muhammad was just like Jesus, or lead in a prayer to Ganesha before beginning the school day? Would you not have issue with that, with the fact that your child was being forced to learn these things that their teacher believed in, but you did not?
  Now imagine that, when you try to fight this injustice, the majority, who agree religiously with the schoolteacher, are telling you that you’re wrong, that you’re being a nuisance, that you‘re what’s wrong with the country you live in, a country founded on freedom from religious oppression.
  Your quotes from our mostly deist – NOT theist – founding fathers only point to a religious government. (Deism is basically the belief that simply by observing the world, one can tell that it is a creation and had a creator, but beyond that the creator is not at all active. Deists also reject prophecies and miracles.) There are far more religions in the world than the one you choose to believe in.

• Atheists to Fly July 4 Airplane Banners in 27 States: ‘God-LESS America,‘ ’Atheism is Patriotic’

  July 1, 2011 at 4:39pm

  In reply to Blackhawk1.

  I love America. I love the flag in it’s beauty, am thankful for the military keeping me, my family, and those I love safe. I think the Pledge of Allegiance should be returned to it’s original state, keeping any mention of a higher power out, before it was changed in ‘54. We are not a Christian nation. Nor are we a Muslim or a Jewish or Hindu or Buddhist nation. We have no religious affiliation, and we were founded to have no affiliation. It’s what makes America amazingly wondrous.
  I don’t hate your god. How can I, when he doesn’t even exist?