Posted on 08/30/2012 12:46:27 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
BOSTON (CBS Connecticut) The National Atheist Party is canceling its secular convention due to a lack of funding.
Troy Boyle, the partys president, announced on its website wont be holding NAPCON 2012 in Boston in October because it would bankrupt the group.
After this years amazing Reason Rally, and flush with our successful recruiting and a spike in donations, we decided to hold our OWN secular event. NAPCON 2012 was supposed to be our biggest and best public event; our chance to show the U.S. that we could fund and organize a large, noteworthy and impressive Secular Summit that would attract media buzz and even more interested members and donations. The reality is that we cant, Boyle said in the press release. The donations simply arent there and if we went ahead with the event as planned, it would bankrupt us.
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The party which was founded in March 2011 states on its website that it is a Constitutional movement dedicated to the preservation of the Founding Fathers vision of a secular nation. Officials hope to develop it into a full-fledged political party.
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Not enough people believe in them?
In 1787, the very same year the Constitution was written and approved by Congress,that same Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. In it they emphasized the essential need to teach religion and morality on the schools.
Here is the way they said it:
Article 3: Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.
Not linking to anything, but anyone is welcome to google "Elevatorgate".
I’m sure some are pretty good folks, who just bought into the Ayn Rand type of philosophy. The rest want to force us to remove our religious beliefs entirely from society. Those can go pound sand.
HUH founding fathers wanted a atheist country, they’ve took too much crack cocaine obviously
So they have faith after all.
What a noble group. At least they fight for what they believe in....er..nevermind.
Maybe they could say a prayer?
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With apologies to the underground comix artist Gilbert Shelton, hope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no hope.
...or are atheists much less financially generous than Christians?
...they don't have a prayer.
Cheers!
“Article 3: Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
This would not pass today’s Congress.
You stole my punch line!
LOL! Good one.
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