I don’t know how absurd the notion of this country moving towards a theocracy really is. Perhaps not with Obama in office, but with Bush in office the past 8 years this country was the closest it’s been to a theocracy in history. You can even randomly ask any Christian whether or not he or she believes that the US was founded as a Christian nation and 9 out of 10 will say it is.

Without atheist bus campaigns, or the exhaustive work of groups like the FFRF fighting on the front lines for civil liberties we should all be equally entitled to the movement wouldn’t be more than a whisper.

Even today most Christians probably don’t even personally know an atheist and regardless of whether they do or not they have common misconceptions about atheism.

Sometimes you just need a pair of spurs to get your horse to move or else you’re not going to get anywhere.

What next?
Paedophiles warn of the dangers of child molestation?
Landmine manufacturers warn of the dangers of explosives?

Unbelievable, sanctimonious hypocrisy!!!!

For the record, I rent a detatched studio apartment on my parent’s property while I finish up my masters in chemistry. So I’m with the family a lot.

On one hand, I know in their deluded way my folks ‘love’ me. But, on the other hand, they hate my professional choice, my evidence-based view of the world. In essence, everything that makes me, ‘me’. Because it disagrees with their pre-conceived notions of how the world works.

I quite litterly live in a place where if the people around me had their way we’d see gay marriage not only “not” be legal. It’d be a crime. Where abortion doctors would face the death penalty for providing abortions. Pharmacists who sold birth-control pills for any reason (other than hormone imbalance) or Plan B pills would be jailed. A place were scientific thought is assumed to be looking to disprove god.

When your back is shoved as far back against the wall as mine is here. I can’t agree with any of the atheists or atheist groups who want to have ‘work together with our religious allies’. In my experience we don’t have any. They are all part of the same delusion. Sure some of them aren’t as far down that slider. But, when you take a step back and look at the entirty of ‘faith’; in my opinion the ‘liberal’ Christians are no better than their zealot conservative counterparts who’d send us back to the Dark Ages so they didn’t have to be exposed to modern critical thinking and science. In my opinion, it is a fight for survival when pushing back against people like my family and their friends.

I think dialog is good particularly because people need to hear the other side of issues from sane sources. I don’t want the only things my friends know about atheists and liberals to come from Fox News. And because I was a born-again Christian for many years, I know the information available on most atheist blogs and news sources is also skewed.

I recently got in touch with a lot of my old fundy friends. During my deconversion process and for a long time after that, I couldn’t keep in touch. I needed a clean break. But now, after getting back in touch, I realize that I liked these people and they were my friends for a reason — not just because we went to the same church or shared the same beliefs.

In my recent discussions, I don’t think I’ve changed anyone’s mind about anything and they certainly haven’t changed my mind. (I’m at the advantage though, because I used to be where they are and I understand their mindset and belief system.) But I hope that with more communication, I can break through the barriers of fear just a little bit and help them see that their current conservative political leanings are not truly reflections of their values.

I am really more concerned about people’s politics than whether or not they believe in God.

thats so absurd, now I’m gonna go get fired from a job and never get married, but atleast its been a whole 6 years since they arrested people for being gay.

I very much want to be part of constructive, face to face discussions with our religious allies.