Nobody here but us bigots
Suzanne Fields of the Washington Times has a new article out and she starts swinging with the opening sentence.
There are no atheists in foxholes, as any dogface soldier could tell you, and neither are there many atheists in politics. Looking death in the face, whether in a foxhole or at the polls, makes a believer of almost everyone.
Why does crap like this keep getting published? It’s par for the course for fundamentalists, but mainstream media? This isn’t reasonable disagreement. It’s blatant bigotry. It should not be published by major media outlets anymore than a screed against Jews, blacks and/or Catholics by a racist should be published by the same outlets.
I think this just goes to show how well ingrained anti-atheist bigotry is in America. I’ll even bet Ms. Fields does not think that declaring all of us atheists who have served (and continue to serve) as some kind of fakes is a bigoted thing to say. Yet, I’m sure she’d have no problem in recognizing the bigotry in declaring all black people stupid, all Hispanic Americans illegal and so forth.
It boggles the mind!
Matt Cherry of the Institute of Humanist Studies, where I heard of this, is encouraging people to write local papers who carried this article or the Washington Times where it first appeared. His letter to his local paper can be found at the bottom of his article if you need help coming up with something polite to say.
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The Washington Times is known as an ultra-conservative paper. Think of them as the Fox News of print media. Thus, it doesn’t surprise me that they would do this. I do think it is a good idea to let local papers who print the story hear from us.
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I have never read The Washington Times, but it should be remembered that the paper is a right wing journal run by those mad-as-hatters Moonie wingnuts, and so god-bothering should be expected.
They’re still full of shit, though, as you rightly point out.