Comments on: Kentucky atheists sue to separate God and homeland security http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/kentucky-atheists-sue-to-separate-god-and-homeland-security Religion editor Frank Lockwood's spirituality blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Caleb Powers http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/kentucky-atheists-sue-to-separate-god-and-homeland-security/comment-page-1#comment-16045 Caleb Powers Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:21:11 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/?p=617#comment-16045 You know, Peach, people don't seem to understand that overreaching is the worst thing you can do in politics, law, and PR. If they'd filed a sensible complaint, limiting themselves to the constitutional issue, they'd have been fine, and everyone would have said that they were quite correct in filing it. But with all this silly stuff in it, it just looks like they want to call the government officials names. You know, Peach, people don’t seem to understand that overreaching is the worst thing you can do in politics, law, and PR. If they’d filed a sensible complaint, limiting themselves to the constitutional issue, they’d have been fine, and everyone would have said that they were quite correct in filing it. But with all this silly stuff in it, it just looks like they want to call the government officials names.

]]> By: peach http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/kentucky-atheists-sue-to-separate-god-and-homeland-security/comment-page-1#comment-16041 peach Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:26:09 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/?p=617#comment-16041 I agree with you Caleb, they sound as bad as Phelps. I agree with you Caleb, they sound as bad as Phelps.

]]> By: Caleb Powers http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/kentucky-atheists-sue-to-separate-god-and-homeland-security/comment-page-1#comment-16040 Caleb Powers Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:22:27 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/?p=617#comment-16040 This complaint is almost as crazy as the law it attacks: The atheists begin by saying that what the government has done is unconstitutional, which is correct. The problem is that "fundamentalist" atheists are just as bad as fundamentalist Christians or Moslems. They are not satisfied by just having the whole thing declared unconstitutional, they have to claim to have suffered mental and physical pain and suffering because of it. This is silly, and undermines the intellectual content of the rest of it. They feel "excluded." Well, duh. They're atheists; they should know they'd feel excluded from Christian society, just as a Muslim or a Hindu might feel excluded. I'm a socialist, and you don't think I feel excluded? But I don't whine and sue about it. And the part about fearing that their safety is in the hands of governmental officials who are "fanatics, traitors, or fools," well, who did they expect to run the government? Every minor government official is either a fanatic, a traitor, or a fool, or he or she wouldn't have a government job. Well, not entirely true; some of them are just lazy. If the ACLU had jumped in, they wouldn't have been quite as silly in their lawsuit. Just goes to show that fundamentalists are still bad even when they're right. This complaint is almost as crazy as the law it attacks: The atheists begin by saying that what the government has done is unconstitutional, which is correct. The problem is that “fundamentalist” atheists are just as bad as fundamentalist Christians or Moslems. They are not satisfied by just having the whole thing declared unconstitutional, they have to claim to have suffered mental and physical pain and suffering because of it.

This is silly, and undermines the intellectual content of the rest of it. They feel “excluded.” Well, duh. They’re atheists; they should know they’d feel excluded from Christian society, just as a Muslim or a Hindu might feel excluded. I’m a socialist, and you don’t think I feel excluded? But I don’t whine and sue about it.

And the part about fearing that their safety is in the hands of governmental officials who are “fanatics, traitors, or fools,” well, who did they expect to run the government? Every minor government official is either a fanatic, a traitor, or a fool, or he or she wouldn’t have a government job. Well, not entirely true; some of them are just lazy.

If the ACLU had jumped in, they wouldn’t have been quite as silly in their lawsuit. Just goes to show that fundamentalists are still bad even when they’re right.

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