Opposite Land
by Zephyr on Jan.18, 2009, under Atheism, Politics
I was browsing the Jake Tapper story to see if he’d changed the first paragraph to be more accurate, and I found out that he has not. I don’t expect him to, actually. It’s far more dramatic to have it this way instead. I did, however, respond to a couple of people who claimed that Newdow was trying to “force” Atheism on everyone, and that they couldn’t understand how prayer and invoking God’s name was forcing Christianity.
First of all, you all need to get a grip. Removing ’so help me god’ is not “forcing atheism” on anyone. The suit is NOT to ask for it to be removed and in it’s place be put ‘there is no god’, or require an hour-long lecture on Darwinism.
Secondly, considering part of this suit is about the many prayers that occur during these GOVERNMENT functions, how is a Christian clergyman (in fact, multiple, from different denominations) asking ME, an atheist, to PRAY NOT forcing your religion on me. Sure, I cold ignore it or close my eyes or stuff my fingers in my ears, but this is a government function and I am a citizen of this country. Why should I be excluded?
Plus, though Newdow is often just treated as an Atheist, he’s doing this not just for Atheists, but for people of other religions. Think about how you might feel if, instead of having Christian clerics up there, Obama had everyone conduct a traditional Muslim prayer and followed that up by saying ‘praise Allah’ at the end instead of ‘So help me god’. Would you still be foaming at the mouth to protect his “rights”? I somehow doubt it.
Basic critical thinking, folks. You can not declare in one breath that the absence of something forces another thing, then in another state that the presence of something does not force that thing. Unless, of course, you live in opposite world, which I guess most theists do.
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