instituted internalizing!lovably affluent …

Since the main religion ’seems’ to be the quite passive christian catholic and religiosity is rapidly declining with our province’s tolerative behavior, being an atheist never seems to bother anyone here.

Know what? I recently began searching websites for atheist information (mainly religious incoherence to argument against my father) and I would never have thought for a secund that atheism could be badly viewed in some place other than, say, the very grotto with Bin Laden…

Eh… Wanna have a cool vacation? Come do the abandonned churches tour, about half we have are empty or serve as bingo places for the elderly hahaha.

Seriously, I still can’t belive atheists are… persecuted? WOW… talk about weird, in this time and age, having logic is badly viewed? wow.

Vincent

That is fine…it just proves a point.

but our goal is not to leach Christianity from the US. What I want is for people not to assume that I am Christian. Telling someone that you are not one when someone says ‘Merry Christmas’ just isn’t fun, especially when you are in a predominantly Christian envirnment (such as my University). Having to deal with this day after day really wears on you.

Would you like it if everyone you knew wished you a Happy [insert favorite non-Christmas winter holiday here]? I generally use wish other people I know that belive similarly to myself a happy winter solstace. Thats what all the other holidays are clustered around.

Oh well. They feel threatened. They truly believe that we are wrong and evil, and the only way you can be a good person is to believe exactly as they do and if you don’t then too bad. sometimes I think they intentionally try to piss us off to force us to display our less plesent nature. That way we prove them right. When a Funduhmentalist (misspelling intentional, Dilbert fans) burns down a Abortion clinic they are prefectly sane and moral; but when an Atheist tries to remove a display from a public place, we are trying to subvert their culture.

I am consistently amazed at the lack of considertation shown to those of non-mainstream Protestant Christian beliefs in this country. These people go on and on about how “Christianity is under attack” when they control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and a large portion of the judiciary. It just makes me ill. You know what is really “under the attack” in this country? Atheism! I can’t read my hometown newspaper without reading some foolish diatribe against the atheists and the ACLU, or hearing our fool of a President talk about atheism.

What do these Christians think they are, with all this talk of percesution. Jews?

Speaking as an atheist, I can say that all I want is to be left in peace. I don’t mind seeing a few Christian symbols out there as long as they aren’t forcibly crammed down my throat. I don’t want to have to see the fucking 10 commandments when I go to the courthouse. I don’t want to have to listen to a bunch of ignorant fucks bellyaching about how they are being oppressed, when they wouldn’t know real oppression if it slapped them upside the head.

I didn’t mean for this to turn into a rant. I just wish that these people who are so eager to turn the US into a religious state would study some European history and realize that just about every war faught in Eurore up until WW1 was at least partially religiously motivated. Is that what they want? Many of the early Puritians didn’t even celebrate Christmas because they believed that a) the Bible doesn’t mention a date of birth for Jeses, and the Dec. 25th date was just taken from a popular Pagan holiday and b) excess celebration is evil. Some places PUNISHED people for observing Christmas. Christmas didn’t even take off in the US until businesses started supporting it. So I really wish these people would stop watching O’Reiley long enough to read a book or preferably several and come to a more accurate understanding of the world.

Happy holidays, everyone.