Well, Madeleine Murray O'Hare died and someone had to pick up the torch.
I'm beginning to think that atheists have a knee-jerk-offense-taking syndrome.
"I'm beginning to think that atheists have a knee-jerk-offense-taking syndrome."
Yes. They tend to be highly anxious neurotic people who are frightened by the very concept of reliance on a higher power.
People like these two twits are pimples on the ass of the body politic and normal people can be forgiven for the temptation to go out of our ways to offend them at every possible opportunity.
Well, Madeleine Murray O'Hare died and someone had to pick up the torch.
Some 'atheists' undoubtedly do. But what motivates them is not their atheism, it is what underlies and motivates their atheism....socialism/communism...and its inherent anti-Americanism. This atheist is not at all offended by what the President said...in fact I fully understand it...even 'agree' with it, at least the idea if not the wording and structure.
I think what the President was saying was that the job of President requires a firm grounding in right and wrong in terms of decision making. He has to understand why what is right is right and why what is wrong is wrong. The decisions he faces are complex and difficult and he needs to understand how to make the right call. Responding based on his 'feelings' is a recipe for disaster...see his predecessor. And his conception of the roots of morality is religious. I think that is what he was really saying when talked about needing a relationship with the Lord. Now, I understand that he might disagree with that idea...that the relationship itself is what is important as opposed to what he gets out of that relationship, that is his morality and the motivation and courage to do the right thing.
That is the idea that so many 'atheists' find so abhorrent...that there is a right and wrong. Many people arrive at atheism for disgusting reasons...they are running from morality and the concepts of right and wrong and personal responsibility. That is fundamentally why marxism is atheistic...it is absurdly wrong, a massive violation of rights, and so its followers cannot have any proper grounding in morality, which includes most religions.
That is why those 'atheists' who do object to the President's statement object....they despise morality, the responsibility of judgment of right and wrong. It is not about their atheism nor is their sentiment intrinsic to atheism.
Yeah, well the whining hysteria of atheists offends me and I'm not born again or devoutly religious.
Since everything is a popularity contest with the loony left, I hope it concerns them that they are offending almost all their fellow citizens.
What they really have is "Delusions of Relevance".
