Posted on 07/01/2018 4:49:50 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
“Last year, the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation wrote the town of Taos demanding that it move the memorial to a “more appropriate private location” or defend a federal lawsuit because the memorial’s cross purportedly violates the Establishment Clause.”
This is a racket. These groups and foundations get court ordered “legal fees” paid for every lawsuit they settle.
There are your garden-variety atheists and there are your misanthropic atheists. Some of the latter may indeed believe that Earth needs to rid itself of our species, but the former includes those who live by certain American standards.
I would call those agnostics vs. atheists. The atheists are worse than snake-handling fundamentalists.
After World War I, Calvin Coolidge, as part of his acceptance speech for the Republican vice-presidential nomination on July 27th 1920, cautioned the country against abandoning its social contract with its warriors, ‘The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.’ This oft-repeated quote may well have a resonance for the Byzantine emperor Maurice, an emperor who came to prominence through his military success in the late antique period, but in a different context.
What’s wrong with snake-handling fundamentalists?
ditto. I find the snake handlers fascinating.
Snake-handlers don’t go around suing others to force them to handle snakes ... or do/not do anything else, either.
Perhaps it is time for the citizens of TAOS to pull a “Kit Carson” and guard the monument as Kit did the American Flag in the 1860s.
Nothing that Darwin doesn’t fix from time to time.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/snake-handling-pentecostal-pastor-dies-snake-bite/story?id=22551754
Not that I’m in favor of a government solution, mind you. Other than keeping underage kids safe from such silliness.
4-1/2 years ago, so obviously it turns out okay a lot of the time.
Am I wrong, doesn’t the Constitution guarantee freedom of religion, not freedom from religion? While I am not religious I find these anti religion people offensive. Plus in this day and age isn’t it illegal to offend people?
Snake-handling, eh? Sounds positively shocking...I gotta see that.
They are nasty people, full of hate and they want everyone else to be as unhappy as they are.
Think about the gigantic leap of logic required to turn this monument into state establishment of religion. These people have a very perverted and sick way of seeing the world.
No, you are exactly right, and I continually wonder why none of out leaders make this point. They took and oath to defend the Constitution, after all, and you they apparently never read it. They should be called out on their dereliction of duty and lack of fealty to their oath.
Just because the atheists are worse doesn’t make it a good thing.
Fight these psycho bastards till you crush them. Set up a “GoFundMe” defense fund. Get the best local lawyers around including combat vets from our various wars.
Take the legal fight to the Foundation etc. Go after them for harassment, frivolous lawsuits, defamation, etc.
Show them no mercy. Destroy them just like we did the Japanese enemy. Take no prisoners.
These atheists are no better than ISIS, who destroyed gravestones of Allied troops killed in liberating their country—except US’ atheists are using US’ lawyers instead of ISIS goons.
We really are a divided country. A house divided against itself can not stand.
JoMa
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