(September 1, 2012 at 2:18 am)Kayenneh Wrote: People are free to believe what they want. People who believe similarly are more than welcome to get together because of this.
But when people, who want nothing to do with those believes, are forced to partake in the delusion in one way or another, I say stop.
It is never right to hold your own fairy tale in such high esteem that you start a war over it, lure the weak/ignorant/uneducated with false promises and threats, knock on people's doors disrupting the domestic peace, keep yourself above the government and don't pay taxes because of it, cram your own political agenda upon those who don't share your belief, bypass scientific evidence just because it doesn't fit with your particular deity or think yourself morally superior when you're not. That is the extent of my tolerance.
That is a fairly big problem where I live and grew up. We have the door to door people salling Jesus and such. An incident this past year at the high school I graduated from and where my sister works there was a normal size 8.5"X11" flyer was placed around the school for an Atheist club meeting. The top in big bold letters was the definition for atheism:
Atheism- A lack of belief in a god or gods. Doest not mean immoral or evil.
The had a picture of the US flag with the following words underneath it:
"The U.S. was formed under the freedom of religion so that no religion would have laws made in favor of or against it."
Then finally at the bottom it had the date, time and location. Those flyers were removed by the principal within an hour of them being put up and the group leaders called into the office. The principal had crossed out the definition portion of the flyer and wrote a short note beside it stating that the portion crossed out was disruptive to the education process of the school and would not be tolerated. He also circled the bottom part and said that it was ok. What is funny to me about this situation is that a definition of a word is disruptive. One of the students asked the principal if the definition had to be removed from the school's dictionaries as well. Smartass question, I know, but I have to say I totally agree with the boy. A flyer for a christian club lead by students is ok with whatever sort of thing they put on there, but an atheist club also lead by students cannot display the definition of the main focus of their club without it being disruptive? I love Texas in a lot of ways, but I will also admit we are lacking in several places as well.
I'm no one special and I treat everyone the best I possibly can, but to you believer, despite my acts, I am condemned to hell.
