Meanwhile, after all the preachy mouthings about inclusion, etc. on behalf of Muslims, Wiccans, Druids, or any nontraditional cult or sect, ideological soulmates of elitists are doing their level best to obliterate Christianity from the public arena. They lack the intellectual honesty to remind anyone that 50 percent of all Americans attend religious services at least once a month, and 80 percent believe in God. Meanwhile, 30 percent (sic) claim to be atheistic. How curious! The smallest cross violates separation of church and state, but the draconian imposition of this atheistic belief system by our fair and open-minded federal judicial system does not. Don’t we just love democracy in action?
For all their diligence, the voices decrying supposed constitutional violations of the separation of church and state neglect the critical point that this legal linchpin is not even in the Constitution. It was extracted from the personal writings of Thomas Jefferson, and canonized into law via high-handed federal judges. It would seem they are misreading the Constitution’s guarantee of “freedom of religion” as “freedom from religion.”
Meanwhile our president can find reasons to skip the National Day of Prayer, but find time to host a Ramadan dinner.
The caustic national rhetoric has obscured some other critical points. Our country’s history of unfettered, unencumbered religion erupted in the greatest development of freedoms , human rights and dignity, in the history of the world, various protestations of historical revisionists aside.
It seems the greater message from progressive elitists is, “do as I say, but not as I do!” it is a confusing message to be sure.
A close inspection of unrestrained atheism reveals an entirely different story. The four greatest mass murderers in mankind’s history – Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung and Pol Pot, were all unrepentant atheists. If this mosque follows Islam’s traditional path, it’s not good news for America’s legacy of freedom and human rights. But that’s fine as long as we all are tolerant, inclusive and gullible.
JOHN MARTINDALE, Sugar Valley
Show me one shred of evidence pointing toward any of these men committing atrocities due to their lack of belief in a god or gods.
Show me one shred of evidence pointing toward any of these men stating because there is no god, I have been granted power over you.
Just a side note... the definition of atheist is the lack of belief in a god or gods. There has been approximately 3,000 gods recorded in history, every person hear holds an atheistic postition to at least 2,998 of these. "We are all atheists, I just go one god further." Richard Dawkins
It seems the greater message from christian elitists is, “do as I say, but not as I do!” it is a confusing message to be sure.
A close inspection of unrestrained christianity reveals an entirely different story. The greatest mass murderer in mankind’s history is the Christian god. If this christian follows christianity’s traditional path, it’s not good news for America’s legacy of freedom and human rights. But that’s fine as long as we all are intolerant, non-inclusive and gullible.
Although novromano's comments are correct. Yet the majority of non-Christians in the world have trouble identifying Protestant Christians from Catholic Christians (& yes there's a vast differnt... they're about as similar to each other as Satanists are to Zionist).
Hitler made dozens of recorded Christian statements throughout his life, even crediting Jesus for what he was doing to the Jews.
Name for me ONE time Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot said they commited their atrocities in the name of atheism? If you used the same standard for Christians, BILLIONS have been killed and even worse by Christians.
Sounds to me like Christians need to do the repenting!
btw, there's no such thing as a close inspection of atheism. Atheism is not a belief system. You might of well have said,
"A close inspection of unrestrained testosterone reveals an entirely different story. The four greatest mass murderers in mankind’s history were all men"
Acclaimed Hitler biographer John Toland explains his heartlessness as follows: "Still a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite the detestation of its hierarchy, he carried within him its teaching that the Jews was the killer of god. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of god. ..."
Christians may find Hitler distasteful, but he was definitely not an atheist.