(March 17, 2012 at 5:50 pm)Rhythm Wrote: People aren't likely to answer in the negative when a random phone call asks them the analog of "do you believe in god" regardless. I'd be peering out my curtains with a gun in my hand if I ever got such a phone call.
Yeah man. Especially in one of those southern states. There remains the very real threat of grievous bodily injury if one were to state publicly that they were an atheist. People don't seem to care so much here in MA.
Although Soule Road School in Wilbraham MA just caught some flack and bad national press for doing "O'Green's Day" yesterday instead of "St. Patrick's Day". Fox News jumped all over it of course touting "anti-religious, pro-green" politically correct indoctrination of kids. I don't know if anyone heard about it.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire