honored by being nominated for a First Amendment award<\/a> named after the man who taught the world how to make millions by turning women into slabs of meat for mens\u2019 sexual gratification.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 Not all atheists go that direction.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the point: most do.\u00a0 Since I was in college till now, most atheists I\u2019ve run across see abandoning God and P.A.R.T.Y.! as one and the same.\u00a0 And while not all atheists support the Sam \u201cI hope someday we can wipe all the religions I don\u2019t like off the planet\u201d Harris approach to interfaith dialogue, many do.\u00a0 And more to the point, while the extremists and radicals of religion are holed up in the mountains of Afghanistan, or in some backward hillside of Montana behind an electric fence brandishing a shotgun, those of the Harris\/Hitchens\/Dawkins \u2018ban religion, for we hates it\u2019 school are media celebrities, millionaires, and professors at the world\u2019s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.\u00a0 That\u2019s just an observation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young atheist who has fought to keep religion out of our schools is honored by being nominated for a First Amendment award named after the man who taught the world how to make millions by turning women into slabs of meat for mens\u2019 sexual gratification.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 Not all atheists go that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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