On 7/25/2014 9:48 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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
>
Yeah, but par for the course for this bunch of assholes.


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different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
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