Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2011 at 8:54 pm by Faith No More.)
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/30...esistance/
This pisses me off.
ETA: Okay, I'm adding this to elaborate because most people probably just see the title and didn't read the whole article. It's about trying to show the U.S. that being an atheist doesn't mean you're anti American. An atheist organization rounded up tens of thousands of dollars to fly planes with banners saying that atheists can be patriotic on the 4th of July. They have gotten so much resistance from religious nuts on this that many of the pilots are afraid to fly.
This pisses me off.
ETA: Okay, I'm adding this to elaborate because most people probably just see the title and didn't read the whole article. It's about trying to show the U.S. that being an atheist doesn't mean you're anti American. An atheist organization rounded up tens of thousands of dollars to fly planes with banners saying that atheists can be patriotic on the 4th of July. They have gotten so much resistance from religious nuts on this that many of the pilots are afraid to fly.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
