High School Atheists

[ozgoat]

It ought to be giving you tools with which to face life. The only tool you're teaching here is that if you don't believe what the majority does, you'll be denied priviliges.

And how un-American is that?

"But the powerful resistance these groups have encountered makes the need for them all too clear. The reality is that atheists are the most distrusted and disliked of all minority groups -- more than blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, immigrants, and gays and lesbians -- and polls show that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist than they are for a person in any other minority or marginalized category.

I don't know if it is "un-American" or not! As a non-American, I've always believed that America is very conformist in the main and very religious/Christian along with it.

A nation that supported the slavery of and segregation of black people for so long(both allied to Christianity) is carrying a lot of bigotry and bias baggage. Christianity can be seen to be crumbling before its very own eyes everywhere, including USA, and they will maintain the defense of their mumbo jumbo right to the very last person.

Bias and bigotry towards atheists and atheism is little different to that foisted upon black people and other minorities by Christians, but atheism is a direct threat and challenges their ridiculous beliefs and the wealth and power of so many is at risk with the growth of atheism.

It's interesting that schools appear to be anti-atheism, because seats of learning is where students begin to seriously challenge the beliefs of religion. So to teach students open-mindedness and acceptance on one hand and to practice bias and bigotry on the other, must be somewhat confusing for them!