Brian37, it seems to me that you have good intentions, i.e. atheists having equal rights, however, when you use issues such as this one to complain that atheist's must silently grieve, a claim I have seen no evidence for, you risk only furthering the us vs. them mentality that religious beliefs bring. The end goal should not be simply to have equal rights, but it should be to be accepted as a good, moral, decent human being. Once that happens, equal rights will logically follow.
If you truly think atheists can't grieve publically and think you can prove it, use examples that aren't so fresh and raw in the public's mind. I see no difference between your opportunism and that of a fundamentalist Christian that says god allowed this to happen, because we have fallen from his grace.
If you truly think atheists can't grieve publically and think you can prove it, use examples that aren't so fresh and raw in the public's mind. I see no difference between your opportunism and that of a fundamentalist Christian that says god allowed this to happen, because we have fallen from his grace.
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
