Posted on 12/17/2013 6:43:37 PM PST by marshmallow
In Chicago's Daley Plaza, wedged between and in front of the traditional nativity display and a giant menorah, there sits something new this year: an 8-foot-tall letter "A" lit up in red.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) placed the big "A" in downtown Chicago. They say the "A" stands for Atheist, but it also represents Attack, given its timing and placement. While the nativity scene is linked to Christmas, and the menorah is part of Hanukah, the only apparent purpose for this lighted letter "A" is to demean the other displays.
In Florida's State Capitol, the rotunda is available to different groups who apply for space. In early December, a group called the Florida Nativity Scene Committee sponsored a traditional nativity scene of Jesus' birth to mark the Christmas season. FFRF wasted little time in snagging a spot immediately following them, displaying what they describe as a "nativity scene parody in which Ben Franklin, the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison on bended knee, gaze adoringly at a copy of the Bill of Rights in a crib." This display is not an expression of faith or faithlessness , or even a political statement, but an uncalled-for attack on the traditional nativity.
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The Alpha! How lovely. Just put Omega on the other side.
Something like a piddling 2% of the USA population are said to be atheist. I guess they need to spread the word. But a hopeless religion is a hard sell.
And to carry it further, you would then ban all trees and all mentions of trees. The only places where the tree-worshippers could look at or mention trees would be in their tree-churches. That's just about how ridiculous these atheists are.
Agreed.
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