What did these atheist cowards have to say about this?
Posted on 01/29/2010 7:40:52 AM PST by Bean74
For some atheists, a person should not be honored for decades of humanitarian work if she also happens to be a professing Christian.
That’s the only conclusion one can draw from the recent uproar of the Freedom From Religion Foundation over the U.S. Postal Service’s commemorative stamp featuring 1979 Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa.
“There’s this knee jerk response that everything she did was humanitarian,” griped FFRF spokeswoman Annie Laurie Gaylor, according to a Jan. 28 Fox News article. “And I think many people would differ that what she doing was to promote religion, and what she wanted to do was baptize people before they die, and that doesn’t have a secular purpose for a stamp.” She also asserted that this is part of the Roman Catholic “PR machine” to “make [Mother Teresa] a saint.”
Just to clarify: the Church does not consider a commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service a necessary step to sainthood.
An action alert sent last week by FFRF urged atheists to “Protest [the] Mother Teresa Stamp.” Despite the insistence of Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts that “Mother Teresa is not being honored because of her religion, she’s being honored for her work with the poor and her acts of humanitarian relief,” FFRF claimed the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, which decides who will be commemorated on U.S. Postal stamps, violated its own regulations by choosing Mother Teresa to appear on a stamp in 2010.
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Ah, isn’t that charming, democracy in action
Let them protest
then issue the stamp
What if they USPO decided to Mao on the postal stamp? Anita Dunn would be in a quandry.
Christian groups protest candy-ass athiest oversensitivity.
SnakeDoc
The atheist group protest has very little to do with religion.
If Mother Theresa was a ‘social justice’ promoter and an adherer to Liberation Theology, the Atheist group would not care.
Mother Theresa is PRO_LIFE and that is their issue.
What has this Atheist group ever done to help their fellow man? Posters on the Boston Herald website who give me bleep about me not “helping my fellow man” because I’m a Conservative were offered the opportunity to deliver Thanksgiving Dinners to the elderly, homeless and shut-ins. I even give them my real name. They are always No Shows.
i know this is contrary, but i only want Americans in our stamps. Teresa was a wonder person im sure,,, but it way past time that we began to rekindle our American heroes.
Good call.
I like your idea about promoting American heroes on our stamps. I don’t think the USPS will do it, though. Since they need to make money, they will put on what sells.
I think the atheists should remember that Mother Theresa has a Nobel Peace Prize, right? For an atheist, wouldn’t that be like secular sainthood?
Presumably they have out-sourced their moral obligation to the needy to the government. And they want to know why you do not worship their god.
Is there any truth to the story of two MUSLIM Holiday stamps by the USPS?
Poor babies! Start working on a “Madalyn Murray O’Hair” stamp.
I forget - did the atheists protest the EID stamp?
I’m thinking they did not.
And by "religion" she means "heresy against atheism".
Saw the advertisement for them with my own lying eyes at a post office near work.
Like cranks. I bet Christmas stamps are next on their list. The woman got a Nobel Peace Prize, and that committee of socialists is not out to promote Christianity.
***What has this Atheist group ever done to help their fellow man?***
On the highway to Bryce Canyon, UT from the west there is a sign that the FREEDOM FROM RELIGION group is supposed to clean up trash on that section of road.
Other than that I can’t think of a thing they have done for anyone except rant.
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