RE: Are Atheists Really Hated in the US?
December 9, 2011 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2011 at 9:13 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
It's bad in the south, but there are surprising wellsprings of rational people. It's where the TV show "The Atheist Experience" (google it) is (austin, TX) so there are plenty of outlets.
Other than that though, the south is a few laws away from being one giant megachurch.
Espeically Florida, but luckily, the very climate change that they are deniers of will take them first thanks to all the low-lying land.
Other than that though, the south is a few laws away from being one giant megachurch.
Espeically Florida, but luckily, the very climate change that they are deniers of will take them first thanks to all the low-lying land.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
