Posted on 12/06/2008 6:51:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the state Capitol building in Olympia there is a traditional holiday display featuring a tree and the Nativity scene; perfectly appropriate since the federal and state Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
But this year Gregoire decided to add another item to the display. Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by atheists that reads: "There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
You read that correctly. The governor of Washington State has permitted an attack on religion to be displayed in her office building as part of a Christmas presentation.
Even the producers of "The Twilight Zone" would have rejected this script as being too far-fetched. Gregoire's behavior is offensive, insulting to all people of faith and totally incomprehensible.
Unless you know what's going on in Washington State.
Seattle now rivals San Francisco for secular-progressive nuttiness. The city fathers are allowing public nakedness in city parks and nude bike riding, and in Fremont, a Seattle suburb, they actually put up a statue honoring Vladimir Lenin, the father of communism.
Some on the Seattle school board actually supported denigrating Thanksgiving by teaching children about the atrocities against Native Americans by the Pilgrims.
In addition, Washington State voters have passed assisted-suicide legislation, and the state gives out free birth control pills, including the "morning after pill."
On the quality-of-life front, the streets of Seattle are full of homeless people, but they don't have to be out in the rain. The city will pay to house alcoholics and drug addicts if they want it. They can actually get free furnished apartments. Taxpayers, of course, pick up the tab.
Outside of the Seattle area, Washington State is fairly conservative. But the big-city population base rules, and far-left zealots are running wild. However, they may have overstepped on this Christmas deal.
I believe that most Americans, even those living in the far-left enclaves, respect uplifting traditions like Christmas, where peace and love is the theme of the great day. Calling religion "enslaving" doesn't exactly fit into the peace and love scenario, does it? Can't we all just get along for a few weeks in December?
The answer to that question is no. Not in Washington State, where the governor believes a few nuts have a legal right to run down the Christmas tradition in the lobby of the Capitol building. At this point there is little left to say except this: Where are the wise men when you need them?
It’s all free speech. Bring it on!
Amen! Whenever I hear people refer to us as a “Christian Nation” (rather than a secular nation with a declining Christian majority), I always ask them what they think of the fact that a NON-CHRISTIAN wrote our Declaration of Independence!
Cite the source. :)
Now, concerning the political nature of Islam, the government is, by definition, entitled to notice that and dispute the Moslem claim for the legitimacy of its law system called Sharia.
That BS "placard" was not a religious or nonreligious display...it was a blatant accusation...and an immature one at that.
Look it up yourself.
Oh goodness. You forgot MD. We are ruled by Baltimore (welfare queens) and DC (welfare queens and the holier-than-thou government do-gooder employees/politicos all over the place).
About 10 years ago some Eastern Shore reps threatened to secede. They and Western MD are ripe for it.
The problem is our cities are a much bigger % of the population than those other large states.
Oh, and I’d also posit that Pittsburgh mostly ruins PA too. Lots of unionists who also think they should get money for doing less work, you know.
Quit insisting that all atheists are the same. You would not like it one bit if I claimed that all Christians had the same beliefs as the denizens of Westboro Baptist Church. Maybe you do, I don’t know.
That's interesting, tell us more, what's going on with that? (I'm from Texas)
George is ignored because he owned slaves.
Would it be better if it was a Muslim placard claiming that Jesus was not anybody’s saviour, just an ordinary prophet?
Turns out you all appear to have a slower visual response time than church going holy joes.
This is not really a surprise.
Without Philadelphia, PA can handle Pittsburgh.
P.S. But I was unaware of the Baltimore problem with Maryland. That would give us 12 conservative senators to shift the balance of power probably permanently.
Link.
As Mr. CE2949BB asked, what is the source for this scientific revelation?
I contend that all modern militant atheists are the same. They have one overwhelming unconscious common goal, marching lock step to a piper of group think. Now a days they have a big intolerant badge that they all wear and it morphs right into the greater group think of the commie overlords. They just don’t make good independent atheists like they used to.
They must want to slide off along with California!
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