“Imagine if the religious right’s beloved “war on Christmas” was a year-round affair. Legions of lawyers ready to pounce on school and civic administrators, the persistent neon buzz of ACLU-paranoia in the air, Pat Robertson and the Bill O’Reilly Persecution Complex (nice band name…) pressuring corporate America to replace every “gesundheit” with a “God bless you.” Now, imagine if the leaders of the effort weren’t just the Jerry Falwell Admiration Society, but instead the full weight and force of the Department of Justice, training lawyers and enlisting supporters across the country ready to blow the whistle on any perceived slight to religion. Got the picture?” wrote Don Byrd, of the Baptist Joint Committee On Religious Liberty.
And
“Expecting the Bush administration to defend religious liberty is a little like asking Col. Sanders to babysit your pet chicken,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United.
Peter Nuhn
gently,
If the rational thinkers could be united, do you think that would change the outcome? (I realize that might be more difficult than herding cats.) I can’t think of anything else that would make a difference.
rna2na
I doubt if there are that many rational thinkers left in our country to make a difference. We have a failing school system that doesn’t seem to be getting better. A political system that only has had one purpose and that’s the protection of big money and a border that even I could walk across. Have to protect that cheap labor at ALL costs!!! I’m not a doomsdayer but I really think in the long term we are lost as a country. We had it too good for too long and we will soon pay the consequences for our inattention. Except for the military we are already a second rate country in many areas. A country that doesn’t PRODUCE anything is finished and we produce, with our own hands, next to nothing anymore. We are told we are a service economy now but has anyone tried to live on Burger King wages? I used to make a pretty good living but I was forced to “retire” by Big Government. Now I have to find a job at my age and have been awed at how low wages really are. I have lived in la la land for too long. It won’t be that long before critical mass happens and there won’t be enough people here who can afford the cars and homes and then it won’t matter where they are built and we will fall as a nation. The United States had great potentential but we squandered it will business and political greed.
Enough of this, time for a beer!!!
here we have the EEO Act, or, Equal Employment Oppurtunity – there are some places like maxim that flout it by saying ‘they will only hire xtians’ which is a bit of a worry (I tend to believe that it is one law for all, and a religious belief is no exemption). I have often wondered (generally) what moves a society to embrace religion throughout and what benefits it thinks will come from it – Uniformity? The ability to easily identify in and out groups perhaps? maybe its just because I’m reading the god delusion at the moment…
The dam hasn’t broken yet, but it won’t be too far from doing so, it
did so a few years ago and it was quite spectacular
“The saved cat sounds great, I have a fondness for animals.”
So do I, even though we’re godless immoral evil atheists
– I sponsor a cage at the local SPCA, perhaps one of the bible bashers would care to explain why someone immoral cold and heartless like myself would do such a thing…