Kaufman v. McCaughtry
In response to Linda Reeves (Readers' Forum, Dec. 14): . It holds that there are no gods (just like the position that there are no dragons). Nonbelievers have the right to attend any government meeting and be free from religious propaganda (sectarian prayers). Atheists are not discriminating against the majority, because the majority have the right to pray or preach as long as they are not imposing on others. In public schools, city council meetings, school board meetings, etc., attendance is required or obligatory, so nonbelievers can be imposed upon or discriminated against.
Why is religion unassailable? Several of the recent letters concerning the atheist billboard demonstrate a lamentable prejudice and absence of impartiality ("Atheists and Christmas," , Dec. 4). They reveal the tendency to regard religion as totally unassailable, a conviction that we surely hold for virtually no other belief that we have. Atheism, it seems, must not "publicly challenge" religion; to do so is a "slap in the face," "an inflammatory, disrespectful message of hate." Every atheist is "in denial," while every deist is undoubtedly in the right.
The book has two subtitles, one in the United States and one on the other side of the pond. In the United Kingdom, where Peter Hitchens plies his trade as a popular political columnist for the Mail on Sunday, teh subtitle is "Why Faith Is the Foundation of Cilvilization". Here, it is "How Athesim Led Me to Faith". Both titles have their strengths. The American version gives us a taste of the biographical nature of this book. "The Rage Against God" is as much about burying the hatchet with Peter's brother Christopher - the former columnist for the Nation who broke with much of the left over Sept. 11 and Iraq - as it is about taking on the "new atheism" that Christopher became a spokesman for after the release of his best-seller, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Q: I'm a physician who frequently gets into religious discussions with my patients. I tell them I think religion is a set of beliefs and a ritual structure used by individuals or groups of individuals to communicate with God. I believe that religion is the language people use to speak to God (requesting guidance perhaps) and the language God uses to speak back to people. If a person truly believes in an almighty God, he or she must accept that such a God is almighty enough to understand all languages and therefore receptive to all people of good heart, no matter what religion they use to communicate with God. Therefore, I believe we must validate and accept everyone's religion. Mine is the right one for me, but I have to accept that yours is the right one for you. Finally, I take the po...
Just below the text there was a Google ad inviting me to take a quiz. "Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Atheist? See which Religion is Right for You. Aside from the eccentricity of listing atheism as a religion, I couldn't help wondering what my grandparents would make of this religious matching service. For that matter, what would they make of the idea that you could choose your religion at all? To them, religion was part of your identity, if not your DNA. You were born into it, grew up in it, and died with its prayers.
The once brilliant cartoonist Bruce Tinsley has been slowly slipping into the "desperate has-been" category with his recent diatribes about global warming and his whine about the "liberal" press hammering the V.P. after his hunting mishap. (Funny. The only ones I noticed jumping on Mr. Cheney were NRA members - liberals? - and late night comics.) But Tinsley is making a strong comeback with his lambasting of school officials for pulling the plug on a student speaker for mentioning (shudder) God. We keep going on and on about this subject, but it would be solved were we only to recognize one fact: This sort of atheism is in and of itself a religion; and rulings supporting such beliefs technically fall into the "establishment of religion" category. Let's be honest. A true nonbeliever woul...
A true nonbeliever would be no more threatened by a benign display of the Ten Commandments on a public building or a tiny cross on a government seal than I am when someone mentions the tooth fairy. The folks bringing suit to remove every hint of God from every possible place are not true nonbelievers. Rather, they believe so strongly that they must destroy every hint of his existence that they have, in effect, provided evidence that atheism is, itself, a religion.
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