We various kinds of nontheists have went and garnered some great attention by the National Journal.
We’re not just written about in it, but appear on the cover itself.
The Secular Coalition has the entire article in PDF over at it’s site and you should really go read it.
I especially liked how the author of the piece wrote about the civil rights aspect of godless organizing. As he points out, despite our size as a group discrimination against us is accepted as normal by a large swath of Americans.
The Secular Coalition is now a member of the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, one of the oldest and most respected groups of its kind. This is a “Big Thing” as it is confirmation that the rights of the godless horde are as important as the rights of other minority groups within the United States.
It makes me wonder what the Christians, especially the conservative ones who think they have a unquestionable mandate to harass non-members, are going to do now. They’ve had two thousand years of complete freedom when it comes to attacking non-believers. Hell, just this morning I opened up the paper and read how it’s “logical” for believers to believe we are without moral characteristics because we are atheists.
With this act, I think both the Secular Coalition and the Leadership Council has brought us closer to a day when people who say these things will automatically be considered to have severely fucked up. It’ll be a while and I suspect they’ll fight like hell to remain both “good people” and bigots, but it’s coming and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.
I think they realize this too what with the newly minted “War on God” which was brought up by Tony Snow in a speech at some Christian college recently in addition to the War on Christmas. One would have to be blind not to realize that the war on plastic Jesus is all about Christian supremacy. I mean, really, who here really thinks this particular ‘war’ is about the secularization of a religious belief when it largely revolves around forcing commercial enterprises to sell things in the name of one particular god?
So, this War on God is little more than a “war” against those who think they have a right to demean, debase and demoralize anyone who doesn’t believe in “God”. We are fighting back and we’re getting some damned good allies along the way. The bigots will always be bigots, but one day they will be branded bigots and they know it.
Last night Lori Lipman Brown went on the O’Reilly show to address Mitt Romney’s speech and thought I’d share the video:
I think she was great and O’Reilly wasn’t too shabby himself. He actually let her speak without too many interruptions. Near the end though he seems to remember that’s he’s O’Reilly and ramps up the “whiney” atheist calls.
Most amusing was his protestation at the end that he wouldn’t get “whiney” if the situation was reversed. This is a man who has made a national issue out of being greeted with “Happy Holidays” by a stranger in a box store instead of “Merry Christmas”. Wouldn’t get ‘whiney’ my ass.
He’d give himself a stroke if a person running for a national office gave a stump speech stating that all that is good comes from secular non-religious areas of thought and that it is the those of “faith” who are charging the gates of civilization itself.
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. — Dan Barker
We various kinds of nontheists have went and garnered some great attention by the National Journal. 
