Comments on: Alright Alright Alright! http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Apple_Christmas http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright/comment-page-1#comment-57176 Apple_Christmas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57176 Does anyone else think that Madelyn Murray O'Hair maybe isn't the best person to celebrate? Her truculence and ornery attitude made her a poor ambassador for atheists, and for a good while she practically synonymous with atheism to a lot of Americans. She may have done more harm than good. Does anyone else think that Madelyn Murray O’Hair maybe isn’t the best person to celebrate? Her truculence and ornery attitude made her a poor ambassador for atheists, and for a good while she practically synonymous with atheism to a lot of Americans. She may have done more harm than good.

]]> By: Apple_Christmas http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright/comment-page-1#comment-57177 Apple_Christmas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57177 Oh, and I had no idea today was "Atheist Day". How was this decided and why wasn't I consulted! and shouldn't we celebrate someone like Thomas Paine or Robert Ingersoll rather than that wishy-washy deist Thomas Jefferson? :-P Oh, and I had no idea today was “Atheist Day”. How was this decided and why wasn’t I consulted! and shouldn’t we celebrate someone like Thomas Paine or Robert Ingersoll rather than that wishy-washy deist Thomas Jefferson? :-P

]]> By: reluctantatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright/comment-page-1#comment-57178 reluctantatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57178 Apple:<br /> <blockquote>Does anyone else think that Madelyn Murray O'Hair maybe isn't the best person to celebrate?</blockquote><br /> Well, she got a lot done. Wrote some good pieces.<br /> Her personal interactions w/others, however, leave a great deal to be desired. Her personal life was a disaster, to put it mildly.<br /> Jefferson's sorta a personal hero o' mine, but hey, to each their own.<br /> For a great atheist, maybe we should have a Baron d'Holbach day. Or a Nietzsche Night, or something like that. Apple:

Does anyone else think that Madelyn Murray O’Hair maybe isn’t the best person to celebrate?

Well, she got a lot done. Wrote some good pieces.
Her personal interactions w/others, however, leave a great deal to be desired. Her personal life was a disaster, to put it mildly.
Jefferson’s sorta a personal hero o’ mine, but hey, to each their own.
For a great atheist, maybe we should have a Baron d’Holbach day. Or a Nietzsche Night, or something like that.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright/comment-page-1#comment-57179 karen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57179 We have our own day? I had no idea.<br /> Hooray for us! We have our own day? I had no idea.
Hooray for us!

]]> By: Robin C. http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/13/alright_alright_alright/comment-page-1#comment-57180 Robin C. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57180 Despite what any of us may think of her, she took a stand for atheists and atheism in a very dark time when it was assumed that if you were an American then you were a christian. Atheists weren't even allowed in the room, much less at the table metaphorically speaking.<br /> <br /> Could there have been a better spokesperson? Probably. But she was the one who took the mantle when no one else was willing to do so and for that reason alone should be honored. Despite what any of us may think of her, she took a stand for atheists and atheism in a very dark time when it was assumed that if you were an American then you were a christian. Atheists weren’t even allowed in the room, much less at the table metaphorically speaking.

Could there have been a better spokesperson? Probably. But she was the one who took the mantle when no one else was willing to do so and for that reason alone should be honored.

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