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Well, its finally happened. The monkey-worshiping darwinistas of the world have declared war on True Christianity™ and Jesus Christ. THIS story makes me want to run down to the nearest Walmart and stock up on ammo. .gif "Gunsmilie(1)")
I blame the Clitons.
Atheists Declare War!
March 4, 2007 — - This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought by a group of atheists who claim the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives violates the separation of church and state.
It’s just one example of how atheists are becoming increasingly assertive — arguing not only that religion is false, but also a threat to civilization.
Outside the court, atheists and people of faith squared off. Inside, the Freedom From Religion Foundation made its case against the president’s pet program.
The foundation’s co-president, Dan Barker, was a fundamentalist preacher for 19 years. Now, he’s preaching from a different text — specifically, “separation of church and state, and reason and kindness in place of superstition and ideologies.”
But Barker and his wife, Annie Laurie Gaylor, who is also the foundation’s co-president, said the problem is bigger than the Bush administration and its faith-based initiatives. They see a world being torn apart by religious fundamentalists of all stripes.
“[Religion is] the source of the greatest violence in the world,” Gaylor said. “More people have been killed in the world for religion over any other reason.”
That atheist argument seems to resonating. There’s an atheist Internet recruiting campaign, atheist summer camps and several bestselling books — including “Letter to a Christian Nation” by Sam Harris.
Harris claims religion is nothing less than a global threat.
“We have a world that has been shattered, quite unnecessarily, by competing religious beliefs,” Harris said. “We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They’re making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.”
Atheists who envision a world without religion may have a while to wait. While polls show that the percentage of Americans who say they’re not part of an organized religion has grown from 8 to 14 percent, only two percent of Americans identify themselves as atheist or agnostic.
One Evangelical minister called the atheist movement, “a firecracker going off in the forest.”
Barker clearly thinks that firecracker has potential.
“If it’s a dry forest, it can cause quite a conflagration there, can’t it? There can be a tipping point in any society where people say enough is enough,” he said. “And if enough atheists and agnostics speak out and that firecracker goes off, it can cause quite a sensation.”
March 4, 2007 — - This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought by a group of atheists who claim the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives violates the separation of church and state.
It’s just one example of how atheists are becoming increasingly assertive — arguing not only that religion is false, but also a threat to civilization.
Outside the court, atheists and people of faith squared off. Inside, the Freedom From Religion Foundation made its case against the president’s pet program.
The foundation’s co-president, Dan Barker, was a fundamentalist preacher for 19 years. Now, he’s preaching from a different text — specifically, “separation of church and state, and reason and kindness in place of superstition and ideologies.”
But Barker and his wife, Annie Laurie Gaylor, who is also the foundation’s co-president, said the problem is bigger than the Bush administration and its faith-based initiatives. They see a world being torn apart by religious fundamentalists of all stripes.
“[Religion is] the source of the greatest violence in the world,” Gaylor said. “More people have been killed in the world for religion over any other reason.”
That atheist argument seems to resonating. There’s an atheist Internet recruiting campaign, atheist summer camps and several bestselling books — including “Letter to a Christian Nation” by Sam Harris.
Harris claims religion is nothing less than a global threat.
“We have a world that has been shattered, quite unnecessarily, by competing religious beliefs,” Harris said. “We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They’re making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.”
Atheists who envision a world without religion may have a while to wait. While polls show that the percentage of Americans who say they’re not part of an organized religion has grown from 8 to 14 percent, only two percent of Americans identify themselves as atheist or agnostic.
One Evangelical minister called the atheist movement, “a firecracker going off in the forest.”
Barker clearly thinks that firecracker has potential.
“If it’s a dry forest, it can cause quite a conflagration there, can’t it? There can be a tipping point in any society where people say enough is enough,” he said. “And if enough atheists and agnostics speak out and that firecracker goes off, it can cause quite a sensation.”
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