Posted on 04/30/2013 6:49:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who President Barack Obama tapped Tuesday to be the next transportation secretary, just declared Thursday "A Day of Reason" in his home city, and asked Charlotte's citizens to observe the day.
May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event designed to encourage people to "turn to God in prayer and meditation."
But Foxx argued in his proclamation May 2 was better served as A Day of Reason because "the application of reason, more than any other means, has proven to offer hope for human survival on Earth."
Several current and former lawmakers have also expressed their support for the day, including Rep. Michael Honda, D-Calif., Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and former Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif......
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hows about instead...obama is in season...treason is the reason
YES!!!
However, no atheist will admit this. They call claim to believe that somewhere outside the universe is floating a gigantic granite block with "thou shalt not be a bigot" carved on it.
I am truly sick of atheists and secular progressives hijacking Christian holidays and other days of unity. Why don’t they establish their own special days of celebrating “nothingness”? I promise not to bother them on those days.
I hate North Carolina Communists.
In other words, they cannot be separated without consequences to both.
Exactly!
Yes and no. Without God, there's no absolute moral imperative to obey any laws, but there are good rational reasons for doing so. Quite apart from religion, laws exist to keep order in society, so whether you think there's a moral imperative to obey them or not, breaking them can mean execution, incarceration, fines, or being ostracized by society. In fact, most people, religious or not, obey laws for these reasons, not for reasons of metaphysics.
G.K. Chesterton once said that the problem with those who reject religion isn't that they believe in nothing, but that they are willing to believe anything.
Most people I know who rejected the faiths they were raised in didn't become rational scientists, they became the "I'm spiritual, not religious" types who believe in all sorts of New Age mumbo-jumbo (pseudo-Buddhism, pseudo-American Indian shamanism, magic healing crystals, etc). And, as you say, they replace conventional morality not with nihilism or utilitarianism, but with doctrinaire political correctness, with its own invented sins of "racism, "sexism", "homophobia", etc.
People have an instinctive need for ritual, belief, and moral codes. Take one away, they'll find something even more nonsensical to fill in the gaps.
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