Hate Speech
Gets tossed in a ditch. Gateway with the details on what happened to the plaque posted by some atheists who aren’t content with the other 364 days of the year, they need to crap on this one.
Topics: Christmas
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:17 am on Saturday, December 6, 2008
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December 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
“I thought it would be safe,” Freedom From Religion Foundation co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor told CNN earlier Friday. “It’s always a shock when your sign is censored or stolen or mutilated. It’s not something you get used to.”
I find it hard to be sympathetic, considering some of the attacks on churches in recent weeks.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Militant evangelical atheists have been working hard and long at establishing their religion, and yes, it is a religion, as the official state religion of the US of A.
If they were truly atheists, religion would just amuse them, instead it enrages them. They are not atheists but anti-God, worshiping themselves as the ultimate.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I find it hard to be sympathetic just on general principles. “It’s not something you get used to.” Having a SIGN stolen or mutilated? If that is her biggest problem in life, she should be the happiest person on earth.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:39 am
They hate Jesus, so they can’t be allowed to speak. No expressing their opinion, no complaining about the harm done to them by bigots and blowhards on our side. Can’t let atheists have their say, what would happen to our country.
Would I let atheists and agnostics have their say? I would let Satan himself have his day in the court of opinion. The day we say to any one group that we shall bar their speech because we don’t like what they say, is the day we sign over our right to say our piece to anyone who would protest our words. Free speech has never been solely for those who say things we deem agreeable. It is as much for the disagreeable and offensive as for any fount of accepted wisdom, for sometimes the disagreeable speak more wisely than the agreeable do.
Can you say, in all honesty, that stealing the atheists’ sign was in the spirit of the season? Can you say, in all honesty, that such an action reflects well upon the Christian community? I can’t, because it doesn’t. It showed at the very least that some Christians are small minded fools with no grasp of charity and no desire for understanding.
I know atheists. Some are shallow and mean, just as some Christians. Others only want to live their lives secure in their persons and their homes, and with a reasonable expectation of getting through their days without coming to harm. Many speak out against the crimes and atrocities done in God’s name by men and women who think their religion justifies any insanity. Are they really any different from those of faith who speak out against the same crimes they do?
Would I let Satan place a sign speaking out against God in a public forum alongside a Christmas display? I would, for that is what public forums are for. And the same for atheist, Satanist, Buddhist, Hindu, even Wiccan signs. I would even allow Presbyterian signs and displays, and we all know what trouble Presbyterians are, according to Tim Blair.
You don’t like atheists and what they say? That is your right as an American and as a human being. But never expect everybody to agree with you, and for some people to get on your case about it. Freedom is not just for those you like.