Posted on 12/13/2016 6:39:53 AM PST by KeyLargo
Atheist activist, Green candidate Rob Sherman dies in plane crash
Rob Sherman, who died over the weekend in a crash of his small plane in Marengo, operated a business helping people build aircraft from kits.
But the 63-year-old was better known as a colorful political activist and Green Party candidate — some might say gadfly — who called journalists and introduced himself as “Rob Sherman, your favorite atheist.”
At one time, he had license plates that spelled out ATHEIST.
Though he came in for derision as a self-promoter, he challenged the use of government-sponsored Christmas creches and displays and anything he perceived as a co-mingling of church and state.
Early Saturday, fire crews responded after his single-engine plane was spotted in an area off Meyer Road, just north of Pleasant Grove Road, according to Marengo firefighter Joe Taylor.
A Monday autopsy found Mr. Sherman, of Poplar Grove, died of multiple injuries from the mishap, which is being investigated by the FAA and NTSB.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Sherman was constantly in the headlines for atheism activism.
As Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper put it in 1998, “He has battled towns from South Holland to Deerfield to Zion to Palatine to Highland, Ind., and Wauwatosa, Wis., over public displays of religious symbols on water towers, on government property and on official village seals.”
Mr. Sherman also filed suit against the Boy Scouts after he and his son, Richard, were denied membership because they refused to recognize a “duty to God.”
The relationship between Mr. Sherman and his son made headlines in 1998 for personal rather political reasons. He was convicted of domestic battery after he struck his then-16-year-old son, and later spent a brief time in jail.
“I wanted to put the fear of God in him,”
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Another from the Clinton hit list? Perhaps he knew too much.
“Sounds like he could use our prayers.”
Could have.
He’s dead now.
He had plenty of chances and I’m sure plenty of people praying for him.
Never heard of him but it sounds like he was a real pain in the ass prior to augering in.
I doubt he’s still an atheist...
No atheists in plane crashes
Certainly possible.
“You have 178 seconds to live.”
Google it. He had no time to reflect.
BTW, why are so many atheists such jerks?
Since there was nothing higher than himself in his atheist world, were his last words before impact..”OH MY GOD!” or “OH MY ME!”
... introduced himself as “Rob Sherman, your favorite atheist.”
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How’d that work out for you at the Pearly Gates, Rob?
good one.
Soul Nazi says, “No eternal life for you!”
The Bible says you should not pray to or for the dead.
They are low self esteemed, self hating LOOKITME jerks who feel the need to bully those who’s nature is not to fight back with violence
and usually unattractive to boot
Green Party? Steinincide?
May God have mercy on his soul.
Prayers can certainly be offered after the fact. We are linear, and constrained by time. God is above time. He created it for us, but it doesn’t limit Him. He knows the end from the beginning.
For example, if we pray for this atheist now, God will have known, while the man was still alive, that such prayers would be offered. God heard them before we uttered them [provided we in fact pray]. Any help a believer’s prayer might be for this atheist in his last earthly moments can still be afforded. It only requires us to recognize that God’s omniscience and omnipresence prevent linear time from constraining Him in any way.
As his plane was going down he was praying to....Darwin?
His master might have told him ‘ah, my favorite atheist’, glad to see you...
Flame away, but no one should ever take glee in the eternal loss of a soul.
Oh he gets that just without where we were designed to be. Eternal life without the Lord.
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