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Atheists Unbless Road
March 20, 2012 at 11:39 pm
From The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/atheist...oad,27706/
P.S. It's from the American Voices section, which means it's real news, it's just the reactions that are fake.
Also, if you want more on the story, and are up for it, you can read the full story on Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/19/flo...desperate/
I find the Fox News report funny because of the real reactions from the the local religious leaders:
Quote:"They were just desperate for a little attention for their cause. Only two of them showed up, it wasn't a big gathering."
Lol, what makes putting holy water on a highway in the first place not desperate for attention? And also why is this even news then?
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 6:30 am
Fucking lolgasm commencing. XD
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 6:33 am
Yeah saw this one... funny as!! 
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 7:31 am
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I really don't understand this thing with atheists in America.
This is the only ideological war you've been through ever since your foundation?
Quote:The unblessing project, he explained, was "not about atheist rights," but about "welcoming everybody into Polk County."
I think it has nothing to do with this either.
I think people have nothing further to discuss ideologically, so they symbollically bless-unbless eachothers roads, church bells, mayhap, and sons and daughters.
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 7:42 am
(March 21, 2012 at 7:31 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I really don't understand this thing with atheists in America.
This is the only ideological war you've been through ever since your foundation?
Quote:The unblessing project, he explained, was "not about atheist rights," but about "welcoming everybody into Polk County."
I think it has nothing to do with this either.
I think people have nothing further to discuss ideologically, so they symbollically bless-unbless eachothers roads, church bells, mayhap, and sons and daughters.
I think it is because the whole separation of church and state is a major thang. The country was built on that idea. Many Christians just can't let that go. They have to have their slimy mitts everywhere.
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 7:46 am
(March 21, 2012 at 7:42 am)frankiej Wrote: (March 21, 2012 at 7:31 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I really don't understand this thing with atheists in America.
This is the only ideological war you've been through ever since your foundation?
Quote:The unblessing project, he explained, was "not about atheist rights," but about "welcoming everybody into Polk County."
I think it has nothing to do with this either.
I think people have nothing further to discuss ideologically, so they symbollically bless-unbless eachothers roads, church bells, mayhap, and sons and daughters.
I think it is because the whole separation of church and state is a major thang. The country was built on that idea. Many Christians just can't let that go. They have to have their slimy mitts everywhere.
Can't let that go?
I think the majority of the people who were there at the country's foudation were christians.
There isn't much to be discussed here.
Besides, if they choose to *bless* a road, they do so on their own accord.
The state doesn't tell them to do it, nor is their blessing funded by the state.
I don't know where this has been violating the seperation of church and state.
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 7:50 am
(March 21, 2012 at 7:46 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Besides, if they choose to *bless* a road, they do so on their own accord.
The state doesn't tell them to do it, nor is their blessing funded by the state.
I don't know where this has been violating the seperation of church and state.
And if some people want to unbless a road then they may do so on their own accord.
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 7:53 am
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I may start performing un-christenenings. People who were christened as kids can then be un-christened.
I can also perform ceremony's to make marriages no longer in the eyes of god.
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 8:03 am
(March 21, 2012 at 7:50 am)frankiej Wrote: (March 21, 2012 at 7:46 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Besides, if they choose to *bless* a road, they do so on their own accord.
The state doesn't tell them to do it, nor is their blessing funded by the state.
I don't know where this has been violating the seperation of church and state.
And if some people want to unbless a road then they may do so on their own accord.
On which basis?
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RE: Atheists Unbless Road
March 21, 2012 at 8:04 am
(March 21, 2012 at 8:03 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: On which basis?
Freedom of religion or lack thereof.
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