Lilly
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ok, not ALL atheists are weird. two of my finest friends claim to be atheists (though i truly hope they don't rule out God, cos that'd be a shame) and they aren't insane.
last night i was watching msnbc and i saw a woman who is apparently very important to the atheists. she was talking about september 11th being "too Christiany" for atheists. (i think she's the same woman who was trying really hard to ban the pledge of allegiance in schools for its use of "God.") she was outraged when remembrance ceremonies featured prayer services and how more and more people went to church to seek solace during the weeks following 9/11.
there is a cross assembled now at ground zero. it is made of beams from the towers themselves i believe (i saw a picture of it, though did not read/hear information on it, it looked like two beams which i am assuming were from the wreckage). it stands there, no one knows how it got there or who made it. she contends that the government condones this and put it there for the sole purpose of making our country "more Christian."
she proceeded to reference other national memorials such as the vietnam wall, the lincoln memorial, and the george washington memorial. citing that they had no religious symbols on them she said they were more american.
she kept coming back to the "fact" that the american government is trying to alienate atheists, which she is saying is religious intolerance blah blah. funny cos not one of the prayer meetings was done by the government, she's right, no religious symbols are on the national monuments, and we don't sanction in school prayers in public schools (even if the students do it themselves).
if we Christians have to be extra super tolerant of atheists, shouldn't they extend the same curtesy and show Christians (and other religious people) some tolerance?
last night i was watching msnbc and i saw a woman who is apparently very important to the atheists. she was talking about september 11th being "too Christiany" for atheists. (i think she's the same woman who was trying really hard to ban the pledge of allegiance in schools for its use of "God.") she was outraged when remembrance ceremonies featured prayer services and how more and more people went to church to seek solace during the weeks following 9/11.
there is a cross assembled now at ground zero. it is made of beams from the towers themselves i believe (i saw a picture of it, though did not read/hear information on it, it looked like two beams which i am assuming were from the wreckage). it stands there, no one knows how it got there or who made it. she contends that the government condones this and put it there for the sole purpose of making our country "more Christian."
she proceeded to reference other national memorials such as the vietnam wall, the lincoln memorial, and the george washington memorial. citing that they had no religious symbols on them she said they were more american.
she kept coming back to the "fact" that the american government is trying to alienate atheists, which she is saying is religious intolerance blah blah. funny cos not one of the prayer meetings was done by the government, she's right, no religious symbols are on the national monuments, and we don't sanction in school prayers in public schools (even if the students do it themselves).
if we Christians have to be extra super tolerant of atheists, shouldn't they extend the same curtesy and show Christians (and other religious people) some tolerance?