Comments on: Atheist Family Faces Discrimination, Eviction

By: James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil

James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:06:23 +0000

This is just one more demonstration that theists are the most intolerant, hate-filled people on earth.

This is why most of the problems of the world are, and always have been, caused by religion. Mankind will never truly be free until the black yoke of religion is lifted by the clear light of truth and rational thinking.

By: Roista

Roista — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:29:09 +0000

This is the superior “morality” which Christians practice. It seems to be just another instance of the Christian religion’s ability to produce despicable behavior from its adherents.

By: jenni

jenni — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:59:45 +0000

I’ve seen stories like this on the news. I myself have personally endured discrimination for my godlessness. 84% of our country claims that they would not want an Atheist as president.

By: jenni

jenni — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:57:30 +0000

Religion has no contact with morality and humanism. Atheists are the most distrusted minority in America. We will continue to spread reason, whether the religious like it or not. Christianity claims to uphold humility as a virtue, yet no Christian has any concept of what humility means.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:21:10 +0000

To those calling “shenanigans” regarding the rent, let me just add a data point. I live on Long Island, and for almost all of the apartments I’ve lived in, my leases were monthly, and rent was required in cash, and no receipts were given. Why? Because most of the apartments (NOT apartment buildings, but divisions of houses, usually with the landlord living there) are illegal. And landlords do not want a paper trail that could be traced back to them (also the income received from rent is rarely reported to the IRS).

It’s still possible the story is false, or exagerated. Just thought you should know.

(By the way, Hemant, love the blog! First time posting here.)

By: Gwenny

Gwenny — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:06:49 +0000

Is it possible to get some last names and link to the WTAE news story? I stupidly posted this in Newsvine without doing research and now I can’t find any additional information and they are demanding, rightly, some evidence this really happened.

By: K

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:52:59 +0000

It’s bullocks.
1) as a landlord, I KNOW there’s a paper trail. DUH. I don’t believe for a second that anyone is going to pay their rent twice, just to be left alone. I call shenanigans. My tenants would have me in court so fast if I tried to pull that little trick and I’d LOSE and the judge would LAUGH. Paid rent twice, PUH LEEEEEEEZE!

2) as a homeschooler, the local school doesn’t have a say in what you do. Ah, but they weren’t homeschooling, they wanted a teacher to come to their house and teach their kid at home. Hence the fake moniker. More bullocks then, substituting their own definitions on words.

By: Escualidus Arrechus

Escualidus Arrechus — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:07:43 +0000

Yes, there are people, lots of them, who think scripture and the person, Jesus, are all relavant. I do not. What am I missing here when atheists use the very symbols of the beliefs they do not share, in arguments?

You’re missing only one thing: Jesus is brought up to better illustrate the hypocrisy of the actions of some so-called believers.

I don’t know if there was actually a person resembling the biblical Jesus 2000 years ago, but if there was, and he was as loving and forgiving as the gospels describe, then he wouldn’t approve of the kind of action described here, and so those who claim to live by his teachings are worse “sinners” than those they point their (collective) finger at.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:59:21 +0000

Thanks for those links, Ben. Those really are incredibly stories. I have to say, I remain a bit dubious of this one. Fair housing laws are pretty great in the US. They protect us from discrimination for all kinds of reasons, including arbitrary discrimination. So you can’t be evicted if you get your nose pierced, just because your landlord doesn’t like that kind of thing.

Still, those stories are quite a precedent. I guess things must have gotten worse. I grew up for a lot of my life in the Bible Belt, with an atheist dad, and we just never had problems like this. I’m sure there were people who didn’t care for his beliefs, but we were never harassed. I think my mom got some flack for letting me play with an African American girl. Ah, the good ol’ days, when it was just racial prejudice.

By: Carry On

Carry On — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:07 +0000

Just read the start of this thread on Sat. afternoon and the first posts were a bit of a puzzle to me. Hate to pick a fight with my fellow atheists, but I am always taken aback when one of us talks about Jesus and what he would or wouldn’t do.

Are we talking about a man who lived a couple thousand years ago and might have been a young rabbi who spoke to people from time to time, or are we talking about the very person who atheists don’t believe is the son of any god or myth-like deity? Whenever anyone brings up the name Jesus, I want to say, Jesus who?

Yes, there are people, lots of them, who think scripture and the person, Jesus, are all relavant. I do not. What am I missing here when atheists use the very symbols of the beliefs they do not share, in arguments?

As for the likely sham of this story? I don’t know but it is obvious to me that people of all faiths, or no faith, have the capacity to be unbelievable cruel and/or completely and unfeelingly self-serving. Our job as civilized human beings is to rise above our worst motives and behaviors and care about others. As many others as possible. Others who might not look or even think like we do? How does it seem to you, that we are doing?