God or Not?

Christians get the message.

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

On Nov 27, 10:49 pm, Dev wrote:
> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/11/little_axe_oklahoma.php
>
> “In 1981, Bell had just moved to Little Axe and enrolled her children
> in the local public school system. At that time, school officials were
> allowing a teacher-sponsored student group called the Son Shine Club
> to gather before school to pray.
>
> Though the fundamentalist Baptist meetings were supposedly voluntary,
> the school buses dropped students off 30 minutes before classes
> started. Those who were not attending the religious meetings had to
> wait outside the building, sometimes in the rain or cold. The Son
> Shine sessions also extended into first-hour class time, Bell said.”
>
> “After contacting the ACLU and filing a lawsuit, Bell and McCord
> became the subjects of hatred and even violence. Bell’s house was
> burned down by a firebomb. McCord’s 12-year-old son’s prize goats were
> slashed and mutilated with a knife. Bell was assaulted by a school
> cafeteria worker who smashed her head repeatedly against a car door.
> (School authorities praised the cafeteria worker, and she was forced
> to pay a $10 fine and Bell’s hospital bills, community residents
> raised donations on the assailant’s behalf.) McCord and Bell were both
> mailed their own obituaries.”
>
> “‘When I began the suit, I just wanted to stop the religious services
> at school, but I supported the idea of nonsectarian prayer in the
> classroom during school,’ McCord told the National Catholic Reporter.
> ‘Since I’ve seen what religion can do to a community, I don’t support
> any religious observance in school.’”

“Militant” atheism has the audacity to claim that religion damages and
kills people.

“Militant” theism damages and kills people.

Of course, none of these people were “True Christians” (TM) because
they make other theists look bad.

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