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Atheists on CNN

ELLEN JOHNSON ON FOX NEWS THANKSGIVING (TOMORROW, THURSDAY NOV. 22 TO DISCUSS AA APPEAL, UTAH CROSS CASE ELLEN JOHNSON, President of American Atheists will be on the Fox News Channel on Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 22, 2007) to discuss the appeal on the Utah Christian cross case. Johnson will be on “American Pulse” with Julie Bendaras at 2:25 PM ET — check local listings. On Tuesday, a US District Judge ruled that 12-foot-high Christian crosses on public land — erected to ostensibly honor fallen members of the Utah Highway Patrol — conveyed a secular, not religious, message. Visit http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312455,00.html for background. American Atheists has announced that it will appeal the decision. WHO & WHAT: Ellen Johnson, President of American Atheists discusses the legal appeal on the Utah Christian cross case. WHERE: FoxNews Channel, “America’s Pulse” with Julie Bendaras. WHEN: Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 22, 2007 AT 2:35 PM ET, check local listings MORE INFO: http://www.foxnews.com (AMERICAN ATHEISTS is a nationwide movement that defends civil rights for Atheists, Freethinkers and other nonbelievers; works for the total separation of church and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.)

16 Responses to “Atheists on CNN”

  1.  stilhorn says:

    you can always rely on fox to be bias

  2.  mushinronjya says:

    Ok so, is this gonna be on youtube?

  3.  bernarda says:

    Fox Newsiness pundits will probably come out with their usual professions of faith. Next time, why not just ask them directly: Why do you believe in an invisible dictator in the sky?

    What evidence do you have for your belief?

    Rather than trying to defend non-belief, take the offensive and make them defend belief.

  4.  reason says:

    i hope the media doesn’t try to make it look like we don’t have compassion for the victims families or we don’t respect police.

  5.  pha says:

    Get ready for the shoutdown. Fox is good for Jerry Springer type debating. Whoever is the loudest is right! Bring your megaphone.

  6.  phreedm says:

    Just one more perfect example of how the Treaty of Tripoli has been misinterpreted…

    As you scratch your head, reread the 10th Amendment…

    Alex…do you know why Connecticut is known as the Constitution State?

  7.  billh says:

    phreedummy:

    Is this a White Mans nation?

    How was the Treaty writen in English mistranslated to you?

    The 10th:
    “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

    Is supported by the 1st.

    Wikipedia:
    “Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America.” In 1959 the General assembly designated Connecticut with the nickname “Constitution State” (This is debated though) So what is your point?

    It is also known as the Nutmeg State,Provisions state, and Land of Steady Habits

  8.  phreedm says:

    DD…you really can’t be that ignorant…now can you?

    “States Rights”…

    Alex requested one founding document stating a nation founded on christianity…I did…

    Claimed he’d go to a church and give $1000.00…and as we all knew…he reneged…

    So, here’s another “founding document” based upon christianity…

    I can’t wait to hear the spin…

    This appears to be the first written constitution in the Western tradition which created a government, and it is easily seen to be the prototype of our Federal Constitution, adopted exactly one hundred and fifty years later.

    For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and Decrees as shall be made, ordered, and decreed as followeth:

    http://www.constitution.org/bcp/fo_1639.htm

  9.  billh says:

    phreedummy: You are the ignorant one. Answer the question. Is this a White Mans nation?

    You are also qouting from Reverend Thomas Hooker, in 1693, for three Connecticut towns, a general court where Hooker delivered a sermon.

    Alex has not been proven wrong.

    THis is a sample of how xtians love to confuse the gullible. Not really even a good attempt.

  10.  bernarda says:

    phreedy is again quote mining, but it is hard to see what the wingnut is referring to here.

  11.  666 says:

    Not a founding document of the United States.

    Seriously, at that level of (non)intelligence, someone else has to be tying Peedummy’s shoelaces.

  12.  phreedm says:

    Comment from: DeepDiver

    You are also qouting from Reverend Thomas Hooker, in 1693, for three Connecticut towns, a general court where Hooker delivered a sermon

    No…it’s the founding constitution for Connecticut…

    Hmmm…obviously you haven’t done the DD to find out why Connecticut is called the “Constitution State”…

    How do you learn anything when you can’t see what’s in front of you…?

    Do you always have to be lead by the hand to discover facts…?

    This appears to be the first written constitution in the Western tradition which created a government, and it is easily seen to be the prototype of our Federal Constitution

    So now the brillance of 66 is telling us that none of the state constitutions are founding documents for the United States…

    Sheesh…

  13.  TXatheist says:

    Phreedm,
    Where is that wording with Jesus and Gospel?

    http://www.sots.ct.gov/RegisterManual/SectionI/ctconstit.htm

  14.  Rusty Shackleford says:

    Ha ha ha… more ignorance from phreedm…

    Hey phreedm… your argument is always about what exact words appear in the Constitution… maybe you can point out where the words “state’s rights” appear in the Constitution…

    Oh yeah… they don’t… because states don’t have rights… people have rights…

  15.  Rusty Shackleford says:

    Poor phreedm seems to think America was founding sometime around 1638 as well… when three villages in what later became Connecticut made a little agreement amongst themselves…

    This is his “proof” that his theocratic fantasies are real…

    Sad…

  16.  wisconsinatheist says:

    You know, people tend to go away if you just ignore them. Why do you people keep giving him what he wants? He only posts here because he knows he can get the best of you. You know you’re not going to change his mind and he’s not going to change yours. Name calling and insults don’t make you look any better than religious people.

    Just let his screen name die already.