That's true.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
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Posted on 12/05/2008 1:38:18 AM PST by rhema
Just in time for the Christmas season, the Governor of Washington State, Christine Gregoire, has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the state capitol building in Olympia, there is a traditional holiday display featuring a tree and the Nativity scene-perfectly appropriate since the Christmas federal and state holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
But this year, Governor Gregoire decided to add another item to the display. Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by atheists that reads, "There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
You read that correctly. The governor of Washington State has permitted an attack on religion to be displayed in her office building as part of a Christmas presentation.
Now, even the producers of 'The Twilight Zone' would have rejected this script as being too far-fetched. Governor Gregoire's behavior is offensive, insulting to all people of faith, and totally incomprehensible.
Unless you know what's going on in Washington State.
Seattle now rivals San Francisco for secular-progressive nuttiness. The city fathers are allowing public nakedness in city parks, nude bike riding, and in Fremont, a Seattle suburb, they actually put up a statue honoring Lenin, the father of communism.
Some on the Seattle school board actually supported denigrating Thanksgiving by teaching children about the atrocities against Native Americans by the Pilgrims.
In addition, Washington State voters have passed assisted suicide, and the state gives out free birth control pills, including the "morning after" pill.
On the quality-of-life front, the streets of Seattle are full of homeless people, but they don't have to be out in the rain. The city will pay to house alcoholics and drug addicts if they want it. They can actually get free furnished apartments. Taxpayers, of course, pick up the tab.
Outside of the Seattle area, Washington State is fairly conservative. But the big city population base rules, and far-left zealots are running wild. However, they may have overstepped on this Christmas deal.
I believe that most Americans, even those living in far-left enclaves, respect uplifting traditions like Christmas where peace and love are the theme of the great day. Calling religion "enslaving" doesn't exactly fit into the peace and love scenario, does it? Can't we all just get along for a few weeks in December?
The answer to that question is "no." Not in Washington State, where the governor believes a few nuts have a legal right to run down the Christmas tradition in the lobby of the capitol building. At this point, there is little left to say except this: Where are the wise men when you need them?
For something as irrelevant to western society as Christianity is supposed to be, it sure seems to dominate the thoughts and time of most people. It is amazing to see the goats trampling each other to get away from a declining number of sheep. The sword-bearing Prince of Peace stands at the dividing point of nearly every controversy of the age. That alone should give pause to the placard pushers.
Hell, I saw/read that when someone THOUGHT I was a liberal for the way I phrased a couple comments and questions. Needless to say I have worked hard on my phraseology since then.
Every heard of “the greatest lie ever told”?
The Devil, when he told Man, “I don’t exist”.
That's true.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Groove to Black Violin EPK, too.
Atheist mythology includes the notion that in spite of there being no reason for our existence, we exist anyway.
A very irrational, mystical crowd.
"There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
If the natural world is all there is, why do atheists complain about it, as if there were something 'wrong' with it? What are they comparing it to, (since the the natural world is supposedly all there is) and what are they measuring it with, to claim that some aspects of it don't measure up? Where do they get their measuring stick? Doesn't the the measuring stick have to be independent of the thing measured?
Some chemical reactions yield one or more products, which usually have properties different from the reactants. So what? So what exactly are these "hearts" and "minds" referred to on their sign? What sense does it make to speak of the byproducts of various concatenations of atoms and molecules as if certain physical processes were something that just ought not be, such as "enslaved" or "hardened"? On what basis does the atheist condemn "myth" and "superstition" as anything other than natural byproducts of the universe? Complaining about such all very natural phenomena, which the atheist claims is all there is, makes about as much sense as condemning the moon for it's orbit around the earth.
Cordially,
Then it’s religious, and it’s therefore a religious display.
The thing that really doesn't figure right is that the man who appears in charge of the nasty atheist sign is the son in law of Anne Gaylord from the "Freedom of Thought Foundation" in Madison Wi. What is he doing putting up any sign in the State of Washington capital? In Madison they now have put up at least one billboard with the same thing on it that my sister called and told me about.
When I didn't believe that there was a God I thought it to be cold, hard and brutal reality. It was nothing to champion. Just, I thought, cold fact. These people aren't atheist, they are God haters. It is plain to see.
Sorta like God putting nipples on a man, eh?
“These people aren’t atheist, they are God haters.”
I totally agree with you on this. There aren’t many true atheists anyway. Most are agnostics. Whatever the case, you are exactly right that these are people with an axe to grind. They are full of hate.....very similar to the gay rights haters.
They need them in prison. ;)
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