[Kevin Curry]

In the hermetically sealed articifial environments of libertarian atheists, any noisome garbage and sewage is permitted--and even encouraged--in the public fora: gay rights parades, kiddie porn etc. Only when religion--particularly Judeo-Christian religion--is present in the public square do they raise howls of protest.

This nation was settled and founded by so-called Judeao-Christian religious nuts--be they Puritan, Pilgrim, Quaker, Shaker, Congregationalist, Anabaptist, or Catholic. Atheists are a relatively recent development (wart) on the body politic.

[E Rocc]

Atheists are a relatively recent development (wart) on the body politic.

... If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814.

-Eric