Atheist on the Blog - Nick Gisburne

1.	No one ever, ever suffered as much as Jesus did on the cross.
2.	No, not the victims of the Inquisition.
3.	No, not the women burned at the stake or hanged as witches.
4.	No, not all the people who died thinking they were going to Hell!!!
5.	Who but God would suffer like that for us ungrateful, unworthy humans?
6.	Therefore, God exists.

Consider this
Science is often wrong. Religion always is.

Pierre Bourgault

Atheist on the Blog

The more I look at religion, the more I dislike it and what it does to the world and its people. This blog will help you understand why religion is something you shouldn't accept as a good thing in our lives. Above all, don't respect religious beliefs when their practitioners refuse to respect you.

8 April 2008

Children in danger! They know about atheists!

8 April 2008

An atheist activist, Rob Sherman, was at the end of an appallingly ignorant politician, Monique Davis recently. It could only happen in America, naturally (sadly, probably not):

Davis: I don't know what you have against God, but some of us don't have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it's really a tragedy -- it's tragic -- when a person who is engaged in anything related to God, they want to fight. They want to fight prayer in school.
I don't see you (Sherman) fighting guns in school. You know?
I'm trying to understand the philosophy that you want to spread in the state of Illinois. This is the Land of Lincoln. This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God, where people believe in protecting their children.... What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous, it's dangerous--
Sherman: What's dangerous, ma'am?
Davis: It's dangerous to the progression of this state. And it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists! Now you will go to court to fight kids to have the opportunity to be quiet for a minute. But damn if you'll go to [court] to fight for them to keep guns out of their hands. I am fed up! Get out of that seat!
Sherman: Thank you for sharing your perspective with me, and I'm sure that if this matter does go to court---
Davis: You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon.

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The background to this outburst is explained on Rob Sherman's web site or read the article here. Basically, Sherman is taking legal action because government approved funds are being diverted to the restoration of a church building, the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, to the tune of a million US dollars. How many times do American atheists have to repeat the phrase 'separation of church and state' before politicians get the message?

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