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Help a Senator celebrate the holidays

Karen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:44:19 +0000

Chris Buttars, a Senator for Utah, seems a bit down this holiday season and wants to pass a resolution encouraging retailers to say “Merry Christmas” in Utah.

Forget “Happy holidays.” What Sen. Chris Buttars wants to hear from Utah retailers is “Merry Christmas.”

The West Jordan Republican is having a resolution drafted for the 2009 Legislature that he said asks retailers not to “exclude Christmas from your holiday greetings.” Resolutions, of course, cannot be enforced.

Buttars said he is seeking the resolution because he was contacted by several employees of a retailer he declined to name that had been told they couldn’t say “Merry Christmas” to customers.

I say we help cheer him up and send him some holiday love.

Chris Buttars
9241 Lisa Ave
West Jordan, UT 84088-8535
dbuttars@utahsenate.org

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As much as I hate Hallmark

Karen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:30:13 +0000

I must admit they deserve some kudos for introducing cards celebrating same-sex marriages. The fundamentalists are up in arms though and are calling for a boycott of Hallmark.

Some examples of their wailing:

Madonna in Shasta Lake, CA writes, “We’re supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin…loving them isn’t condoning their sinful choice.”
Lucretia in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA writes, “I will no longer, ever, buy another Hallmark product, under any name, unless you pull these cards.”
Brenda in Olivehurst, CA writes, “Not only I, but my entire family no longer buy cards and gift from your company, and we will not as long as you promote homosexuality.”
E. in Vista, CA writes, “I will not buy cards from your company anymore as long as you cater to this tragedy.”

If you’ve got the time, why not drop Hallmark a note telling them thanks for not being the bigots these zealots would prefer them be and for recognizing the relationships of gay couples?

EMAIL: Click here.
PHONE: 1-800-HALLMARK (1-800-425-5627)
MAIL:
Hallmark Customer Service
P.O. Box 419034
Mail Drop 216
Kansas City, Missouri 64141

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Richard Dawkins’ hate mail

Karen — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:57:38 +0000

Found this video over at The Good Atheist and thought I’d share it:

The best one has to be the one where the sweet little Christian hopes Dawkin’s gets hit by a church van and dies slowly. Such a sweetheart, eh?

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Act like a Christian? No, Thanks.

Karen — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:10:41 +0000

An event this coming Sunday is to be a first for the Democratic Party. At exactly two pm at the Denver Convention Center the Democratic party will kick off the only “inter-faith” service it’s ever played host to.

This gathering will include clergy of a variety of faiths, Democratic leaders, elected Democrats and community leaders. It’s alleged purpose is to “showcase our nominee, our strength, our diversity and our shared values”.

If it were merely a side event it’d be easy to ignore for the most part. It is, however, not a side event. It is the first official event of the convention itself and it’s not only a religious service, but one that actively excludes all non-theists from kicking off the week long celebration of Democratic diversity.

On July the second Ron Miller of the Secular Coalition sent Leah Daughtry, the Pentecostal minister running the convention this year, a letter addressing this. It was a pretty nice letter too. After expressing his concern Miller asks

Is this event open to Democrats who do not hold a god-belief? I assume your answer is yes, but I would be very interested to know how you plan to make the nontheist community feel welcomed. Without an inclusive plan you will make nontheistic Americans feel like second-class citizens at the convention.

Things were quit for a while, then Eric Gorski of the AP wrote an article wherein he explicitly implied that we atheists had attacked Daughtry. His exact words (cached version):

Daughtry, 44, was preparing for an Aug. 24 interfaith service that will open the Democrats’ gathering here — a first for a party that hasn’t always gotten God. Before her was an angry letter from a secularist group that wanted to know whether atheists would be on the podium.

Now it’s possible that’s exactly how Daughtry described it, but I’ve got my doubts. The common theme, especially in the media, is that we atheists are raving lunatics who snack on poor little theists for no reason whatsoever. They were just standing there, minding their own business when this pack of angry atheists just jumped ‘em. It’s like the wild wild west meets Bill Donahue’s severely altered reality.

Daughtry, whom Gorski apparently described as “befuddled“, said she’d get back with Miller. That was more than a month ago today. Daughtry’s apparently still befuddled. That didn’t stop a certain editor though. He might be many things, but befuddled isn’t one of them.

He got back with us via his newspaper under the heading “Dems dismiss the atheists. Why rude guests aren’t welcome“. As you can imagine it ain’t nothing but a big long ranting piece of bigotry which would provoke a well deserved firing if aimed at any other minority group in America besides atheists.

You see we atheists have “our panties in a twist” and are “fussing” yet again. Now what sexism and ageism have to do with atheist members of a political group taking part in an official function of that group is a post for another day, but our dear editor quickly moved on to acting like a bee climb up his pants and stung him right on his ass – several times in a row.

You’ve got your old “I don’t hate atheists as a group, I’ve just decided to tar and feather all atheists as rude fuckwits cause some individual atheists did something I didn’t like” paragraph or two, maybe three. No bigotry there buddy.

Dear editor then pulls the Hitler card. Yea, I know. He lost right there, but I do like his spin. You see, “Hitler imagined a world without Jews” and the FFRF “rented a billboard near the Colorado Convention Center that says: “Imagine No Religion”.” He’s not saying that, of course, but he is sayin’ something and damn you straight to the Christmas aisle of your nearest Hobby Lobby if you think that something is anything remotely bigoted towards atheists.

And oh yea, in a world without space daddies waiting around to whup our behinds with their cosmic belts there’d be no “Golden Rule” and the entire world would be “devoid of most charities, hospitals and great universities.” People in the paths of hurricanes would be left to suffer through it.

The survivors would end up on the streets cause no one would help them get back up on their feet. They’d have some company though cause we atheists ain’t that damned mean. Of course, most of their company would be the starving naked children we atheists cuss about on our way to Starbucks or wherever, but they’ll have company damnit! Misery and all that, ya know? Brought to you, of course, courtesy of every atheist on the planet.

And lest it go unsaid…

POL POT!

STALIN!

MAO!

And some dude from Albania named Enver Hoxha. Who’s he? Beats the crap out of me, but we’ll charitably assume that this Enver boy killed people and didn’t have the good sense to call it The American Way, blessed by the Jebus himself.

Again, to the Christmas aisle with your godless ass if you’re thinking that might be a bit on the bigoted side of things. All them guys were atheists ergo every atheist is a potential mass murderer. He’s just speaking truth to power, dig it?

And lets not forget that no theist in America has ever said or did anything that could remotely be construed as being bigoted towards atheists. Never. Wouldn’t dream of it. In fact, if we atheists quit acting like atheists and “act more like Christians and Jews”, we might get “better party invites”.

Act like a Christian? No, thanks. Bitching’s my speciality. I’ll leave the lying to the professionals. You might know one. They call themselves Christians and they like to hide behind Jews once they start a fight.

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Thinking leads to ignorance?

Karen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:32:58 +0000

A church over in Shreveport, Louisiana recently decided to have an old fashioned book burning which was picked up by the local news.

Nothing new, really. Small Christian communities do it all the time here in the south it seems. In fact, there’s a church about 30 minutes north of here that should be doing it’s annual book burning any day now.

What I wanted to share was a quote by the guy who led it over on one of the news sites in response to a commenter.

Bless you…I am James the director. Now, Dixiechick, God’s rules are timeless…I do not think people are too stupid to think for themselves. But if they think for themselves they are choosing the path of least resistance that leads to ignorance and the Bible says God’s people perish for lack of knowledge. Then He sends people who love Him and His creation enough to wake them up. I love you!

Now, personally, I’d say the “path of least resistance” is actively choosing to not think for oneself. That’s how you end up truly ignorant. That’s how you end up standing around a fire watching, perhaps even participating, in the destruction of a book you probably haven’t even read but “know” is evil because your leader told you it was.

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It’s the lack of silence that offends

Karen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:13:28 +0000

Jerry Marszalek, a football coach in Michigan, has lost his job after allowing an assistant to pester Muslim students into becoming Christians. As you can expect, the professional Christian set is not happy about the development and have decided to spin it as yet another act of persecution – against Christians.

According to an article on the Christian Newswire condemning the “persecution”, Christian persecution in America has taken on several forms. One of these forms is “a rising intolerance for proselytising”.

In recent years, Christian persecution has taken on a variety of forms in the United States—from a rising intolerance for proselytising to the eradication of nearly all historical Christian references in public school textbooks.

Yes, you read that right. You are not allowed to tell a Christian recruiter to leave you alone. If you do so, you are persecuting that Christian. They have a god given right to annoy and it’s your job to sit in gracious silence when they start prattling on about the Jebus.

So the next time you hear one whining about big bad atheists being oh so mean to them, remember that they think that anything but complete silence is persecution.

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That didn’t take long did it?

Karen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:33:48 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about various Christian groups that don’t seem to understand that anti-discrimination laws protect them not just from non-Christians, but from each other due in part to their constant battles over who’s a True Christian and the like.

Today I find a post over at A Whore in the Temple of Reason about an editorial in her home state that starts with this line:

They can’t be real Christians. They must be part of an atheist cabal.

Though this “they” is the Westboro Baptist Church which is virulently anti-gay, this is how a lot of individual Christians and sects act. No one but them and their own are the real deal. Everything else is either fake or a plot by the most hated group around which in this case happens to be atheists.

And this is exactly why all Christians should be thankful for anti-discrimination laws. Christians seem to hate each other more than any other group as their favorite sport is seriously attacking each other.

As someone who grew up in fundamentalism, let me put it this way. I was taught that there is more than one hell. I’ve forgotten how many, but I do remember that one of the worst of the hells is specially reserved for fake Christians. The Christian god is supposed to hate them with such a passion that he set up a special hell just for them.

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Imagine being told "no" because you’re a Christian

Karen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:22:53 +0000

A photographer was recently found guilty of discrimination in New Mexico for refusing to photograph the wedding of a lesbian couple because of the “message” it sent. It should come as no surprise that the photographer in question is a Christian who thinks homosexuality is a “sin”.

The professional Christian Martyr set is a bit upset about this smack in the face to their first amendment right to practice their religion in public. And it never ceases to amaze me how dumb these groups and individual supporters are. It’s like they’ve been blinded by their hate of the “other” to such a degree that they don’t realize that what they’re bitching about protects them also.

What’s more, it protects them from each other because if there’s one thing Christians really excel at it’s treating each other like crap. Just think about all the times you’ve heard of one Christian saying another Christian wasn’t one of the very elusive, perhaps extinct, “Real Christians” or the constant bickering between the entire lot about what constitutes that little thing they like to call “Real Religion”.

Hell, if everyone could “practice their religion” without any restriction at all – we “others” would probably end up sitting on the sidelines making bets on which group of Christians has the best chance of kicking the asses of the other Christian groups.

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Imagine being told "no" because you’re a Christian

Karen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:22:53 +0000

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Everybody run, the Christians are getting smarter

Karen — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:36:42 +0000

First they figured out that we members of the godless horde cannot be found in a church. Now they’ve went and figured out that we don’t expect to be pestered by ‘em on Sunday morning.

I saw them walking about last week, but figured I was being paranoid due to lack of coffee. So when someone knocked on the door about 9:30 or so this morning, I figured it was a friend of ours stopping by, if a bit early. Nope. It was a couple of Christians trying to strum up some business for a nearby church.

This is actually the first time any of them have come up to the house. I’m quite sure that’s because we’re white and the south is still quite segregated when it comes to religion. For example, I once watched a couple of white Mormons approach every white person in a local park. The only peope they didn’t approach were a couple of Hispanic mothers, a black father and myself. I’m pretty sure I was ignored due to the anti-theistic, down with the patriarchy t-shirt I was wearing at the time.

Anyway – this whole thing of hitting us up on Sunday mornings just isn’t right. They pester us the rest of the week as it is. Can’t we have just a few hours a week without having to wonder if the knock at the door is a friend or a foe?