We Just Won't Go Away

Trying to Ignore Atheists

The following seems to be a common theme among Christians: they feel that they are persecuted and lacking access to the same rights as the rest of us and they completely misunderstand how rights are granted in this country.

I don't understand why one atheist can get all the publicity he's getting and we, professing Christians, just sit back and let these things happen.

Well, publicity isn't a right.

We have rights, too. (Again, there is no right to publicity.). Anyway, wasn't this country founded to let us live by majority rules?

Ummm, no. We we elect leaders by majority rule (supposedly), but it's not how we are granted our rights. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are what grant us the rights we have and they were written in such a manner that the rights of everyone, especially the minority, were protected.

If anyone doesn't want to say "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, then he or she can just not say those words. He or she has that right.

Unless, of course, you happen to be the Distinguished Gentleman from Washington, Rep. Jim McDermott. In that case, you are, apparently, required to say "under God". And if you don't, you'll be chastized even by your own team (I thought Pelosi was a liberal) and the Congressional record will be modified to indicate that you did say "under God" -- even though you didn't.

I really believe than unless Christians take a stand in matters such as these, we will one day go back to a time where a Christian will be arrested and thrown into jail for our belief.

Huh? When, in this country, has that ever happened? It hasn't. You have to go allll the way back to the days of the Roman Empire, before it was the Holy Christian Roman Empire. But, uhh...I just don't see anything like that happening.

There are some very strong Christians today who set out to prove there is no God but failed in their attempt.

Wow. Now there's a shocker for you. A Christian with strong faith who still believes that God exists? Call up the news stations!