want to hold a rally in Washington<\/a> drawing attention to their cause.\u00a0 No problem with that.\u00a0 That\u2019s what America is all about.\u00a0 I do chuckle at the thought that, despite overwhelming sympathy in our popular culture, educational establishments, and the general eradication of free religious debate in the public forum, atheism still has not caught on.\u00a0 Perhaps Americans, still possessing some of that down home common sense that defined their forefathers, are able to look at mostly secularized Europe and say, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to go down the tubes the way Europe has.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But go for it.\u00a0 Even when atheists say silly things like \u2018nobody knows we\u2019re here\u2019, I\u2019m for the right to say silly things.\u00a0 More power to them as they demonstrate the freedoms and liberties all Americans should be able to exercise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So atheists want to hold a rally in Washington drawing attention to their cause.\u00a0 No problem with that.\u00a0 That\u2019s what America is all about.\u00a0 I do chuckle at the thought that, despite overwhelming sympathy in our popular culture, educational establishments, and the general eradication of free religious debate in the public forum, atheism still has […]<\/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-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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