There was a great article about how atheists are treated in America in the WaPo yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-americans-still-dislike-atheists/2011/02/18/AFqgnwGF_story.html
What a bunch of silliness that was.
Atheists are still crying the same crocodile tears, as usual.
Long after blacks and Jews have made great strides, and even as homosexuals gain respect, acceptance and new rights, there is still a group that lots of Americans just don’t like much: atheists. Those who don’t believe in God are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry. As far as the angry part goes, ever had a few chats with Deicide?
They can’t join the Boy Scouts. DUH!!! It's a religious organization. They tend to want their members to, at least nominally, believe in God.
Atheist soldiers are rated potentially deficient when they do not score as sufficiently “spiritual” in military psychological evaluations. People who obsessed over something that they don't believe to exist....I wonder why a military shrink would think they're a bit cracked
Surveys find that most Americans refuse or are reluctant to marry or vote for nontheistsYep, nothing says "hubby material" better than making light of something that your girlfriend holds dear to her.
In other words, nonbelievers are one minority still commonly denied in practical terms the right to assume office despite the constitutional ban on religious tests. Nobody is denying them the right to be in office. Of course, the thing with elected office is that people actually HAVE TO LIKE YOU to vote for you. Too many high-profile atheists belittle people of faith, call them and their children names, and work tirelessly to keep them from expressing THEIR constitutional rights, in terms of religious expression. Then, they acted shocked and dumbfounded that nobody wants to vote for their silly behinds.
Nothing in the constitution mandates the VOTERS to pick someone they don't like, especially when that someone besmirches their particular beliefs or faith. In other words, we have the right not to elect JERKS.
And, then there's the citing of Denmark as the happiest of nations. And, they're the least religious. BIG DEAL!! So was the former Soviet Union. Ask their folks how happy they were.
Here's a good one:
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious. Do the words Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler ring a bell? There's a reason that atheists want to distance themselves from these two cats. Their body counts makes the Crusades and Jihads look like kindegarten spats.
BTW, who started Planned Parenthood, for the EXPRESSED PURPOSE of killing off the "undesirables" (i.e. black people)? Margaret Sangor, an atheist.
Nobody cares about how atheists score on "basic questions of morality and human decency" in surveys or tests or questionnaires. It's where they score during crunch time. For some reason, I missed all those food banks, humanitarian shelters, missions, hospitals and clinics runs by these "more ethical" nonbelievers. Where are the atheist scouts walking old ladies across the street? Or handing out food baskets on Thanksgiving, for the hungry and less fortunate? And if the mean old Boy/Girl Scouts won't let them in, what's to stop all these brilliant folk from forming their own groups?
In the end, this is but another whinefest from a supposedly brilliant atheist who is as clueless as the desert is hot. You would think that people who purport to be so self-reliant and smart would refrain from such sheepish bleating and excuse making. But, alas, that just ain't the case.