Screw them. Is someone holding a gun to their head, demanding they buy these particular stamps? Ridiculous.
“I know God won’t give me more than I can handle, I just wish He didn’t trust me so much!” ~ Mother Teresa
(I have a plaque stating that at work. It keeps me focused and makes me laugh when things are going nuts.)
I bet these “atheist” groups would never protest a Malcolm X stamp, a Mohammed stamp, a Buddha stamp, or some other figure of another religion....
Most of these “atheists” are really just Anti-Christian.
“The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp — and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the “darker side” of Mother Teresa.”
What is the “darker side” of Mother Teresa?
Didn’t she win a Nobel Peace Prize? Surely that is enough of a secular award to refute their arguments.
Horrors... A flawed human who strove for a higher ideal...
I find I have developed a strong distaste for militant atheists.
The Stalinist impulse of the Left to censor, on full display.
What regulation? Besides, wouldn’t it be more of a violation of the First Amendment to exclude people for anything specifically because of religious reasons? I have problems with Mother Theresa, but nobody can honestly deny the overall good she did.
Many of those honored on postage stamps could have been accused of being honored for “religious undertakings.”
Albert Schweitzer leaps to mind. I am sure there are many others.
I guess Am. Ath. thinks no nuns or priests or missionaries or anyone with a clerical collar or garb can be honored?
So, then, a lifelong exhibition of human compassion is an achievement attainable only by religious people??
That’s the core of the argument these atheist idiots are implicitly making; that human efforts on behalf of the poor and downtrodden must necessarily emanate from religious faith.
They shame themselves.
Worse, they tip their hand to reveal their deep doubts as to their own professed atheism. The settled atheist is not threatened by postage stamps honoring great humanitarians, whether they be people of faith, or not.
Truly there are few aside from this crowd more well-deserving the epithet “damned fools”.
Pingout today.
Oooh! THAT will show them!!
If such a regulation exists, would it not be an unconstitutional discrimination against religion?
That said, how often do we honor foreigners on our stamps? Why her? Was it part of a series of Nobel Prize winners?
We also have Christmas stamps every year.
I am tired of these self-loathing individuals.
If they show up at my place, I have a couple of bullets and some empty land & backhow\e waiting for them. Let them go back to God and try again with another life.
Just like those who think Catholics shouldn’t work in Emergency Rooms.
Did the atheists boycott the “Eid Stamp” last September?
Good Lord, can they get any worse?
Time for me to go out and buy a bunch and plaster them on every piece of mail I send out.
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So only atheists and hedonists on stamps. I will go out and buy a bunch of Mother Theresa stamps and use them exclusively.