On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:57:07 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> On 7/24/2014 9:19 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:48:34 -0400, Warp wrote:
>>
>>> I hear there are still some places in the US where there are basically
>>> closet atheists who pretend to be Christians because else they would
>>> be shunned and discriminated against.
>>
>> Actually, a more accurate way to say that at the moment would be that
>> there are some places where it's OK to be an out Atheist.
>>
>> It's gotten better in the past few years, but, particularly in small
>> towns in the south, it can be extremely difficult to be an out Atheist.
>>
> Yeah, most of those places being the wrong religion, and questioning why
> some "public" event is opened with a prayer to the god of right wing
> evangelicalism, instead of just about anything else, will get you run
> out of town. These places only play lip service to the usual lie that
> Jews, Christians, and for some reason, Buddhists are all welcome (the
> three faiths most often quoted by idiots claiming they are "inclusive"),
> but everyone else will burn in hell. If you actually make a complaint
> while being the wrong one of these, or almost worse, one of those damn
> "liberal" Christians and you might as well be black, 50+ years ago, with
> a sheet factory down the street from you.

I find it particularly disturbing that SCOTUS thinks that it's OK to have 
religious invocations at government functions - because *that* makes 
everyone feel like the city/state/locality will treat them equally if 
they're not Christian.  Yup, uh-huh.

And unicorns exist.  Really.

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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