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ATHEISTS TO FLY JULY 4 AIRPLANE BANNERS IN 27 STATES: ‘GOD-LESS AMERICA,‘ ’ATHEISM IS PATRIOTIC’
theblaze.com ^ | 07/01/2011 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 07/01/2011 12:06:20 PM PDT by massmike

Get ready, America. This upcoming July 4 is about more than simply celebrating our nation’s founding. Apparently, it’s also an opportunity for Atheists to set the record straight about their patriotism.

Thus, on Monday, people in 27 states will have the opportunity to look up in the sky and see airplanes flying banners that proudly say “God-LESS America“ or ”Atheism is Patriotic.” The campaign, being organized by the New Jersey-based American Atheists, is sure to stoke the fires of controversy.

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: atheists; july4th; moralabsolutes
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To: antiRepublicrat

Doesn’t really matter. Atheists are such a small minority that they don’t have much influence in America, thankfully.


41 posted on 07/01/2011 2:04:37 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: GenXteacher

That right there is funny.


42 posted on 07/01/2011 2:05:54 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: antiRepublicrat

TJ was but one of the many founders. One often quoted by non-believers because of his diest beliefs. God only knows whether he made it through the pearly gates. One day, I will know. I hope he is there along with those who blaspheme with their banners.


43 posted on 07/01/2011 2:14:00 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ilovesarah2012
Atheists are such a small minority that they don’t have much influence in America, thankfully.

Too bad. If I had more influence, this country might not be so liberal. Do not equate atheism with liberalism. However, do realize that religious conservative denigration of atheists can help drive atheists to the liberal side. You only hurt all of us.

44 posted on 07/01/2011 2:19:27 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

You don’t believe the majority of atheists are liberals?


45 posted on 07/01/2011 2:21:21 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: crusty old prospector

Okay, so I’m sitting here watching Americans joke about the cold-blooded murder of other Americans for desiring to peacefully express their views on religion. Easy to see who’s on the moral high-ground here, and it’s not the Christians.


46 posted on 07/01/2011 2:28:12 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: massmike

Dinesh takes atheism apart limb by limb in this great book.

47 posted on 07/01/2011 2:30:32 PM PDT by mc5cents (Noli nothis permittere te terere)
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To: ilovesarah2012
You don’t believe the majority of atheists are liberals?

I'd bet that's true, partially because of alienation by conservatives. Why should atheists side with a group who considers atheists to be second-class citizens, somewhat in the way Muslims look at minority Christians? But there's nothing inherent in atheism that points to liberalism. The seminal atheist work Atlas Shrugged isn't exactly the liberals' Bible.

48 posted on 07/01/2011 2:33:34 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

It is true that the vast majority of atheists are liberals, it is natural for someone that does not believe in God to reject so much of conservatism, that only a relatively small number of atheists that like conservative economics could bring themselves to join with conservatives and traditional Americans in voting or politics, even then they are always badgering us to move left.


49 posted on 07/01/2011 2:48:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ansel12

There’s also conservative social values, illegal immigration, gay marriage, and even freedom of religion.


50 posted on 07/01/2011 3:01:57 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Do you not detect thinly-veiled humor? There is but one Judge.


51 posted on 07/01/2011 3:15:54 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector
There is but one Judge.

True.


52 posted on 07/01/2011 3:18:34 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Clearly, the great majority of atheists are against that stuff, that is why they are liberals.


53 posted on 07/01/2011 3:38:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Don’t equate all atheists with anti-theists or anti-Christians. That’s as fair as equating all Christians with the Westboro Baptists.

You just did, and it is absurd, sleazy, and hugely dishonest. It is even anti-conservative.

People are not convinced that the 78 person family cult. partly of lawyers and created by their patriarch Democrat politician, are even Christian, but regardless, they are only a little cult.

Anti theism and anti Christianity is definitly a big part of atheism, nationally, and globally.

54 posted on 07/01/2011 3:48:56 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Okay, so I’m sitting here watching Americans joke about the cold-blooded murder of other Americans for desiring to peacefully express their views on religion.

Gee, drama queen much?

55 posted on 07/01/2011 3:50:34 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: antiRepublicrat

“Do not equate atheism with liberalism.”

Why not? Every atheist I have known has been a liberal. Many believe they are more conservative than they are, but listening to NPR doesn’t make one a conservative.


56 posted on 07/02/2011 7:17:47 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: ansel12

“Gee, drama queen much?”

The liberal usually does.


57 posted on 07/02/2011 7:26:12 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: antiRepublicrat
There are too many problems with atheism to cover all of them here.

But for our purposes on FR, the key one can be condensed into one line.

This is the atheist version (of necessity) of one of our founding documents:

"...endowed by                with certain inalienable rights"

Cheers!

58 posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:10 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Easy, use the founding document that both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were based on, the Virginia Declaration of Rights:

“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”

This proves that even among the Founders the concept stands valid without any creator. Where do you stand with the “key problem” gone?


59 posted on 07/02/2011 8:54:18 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: CodeToad

Most blacks are liberal, too. Therefore, should I shun Herman Cain?


60 posted on 07/02/2011 9:09:09 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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