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Atheism in America and the Year of the Bible

Forget 2012 AD and the Mayanshere comes 2010 AD and

the Year of the Bible

See my post on the Positive Atheism site’s national Bible week poster. Now Congress will consider a bill that seeks to deem 2010 AD as the Year of the Bible.

Ok kids, pop quiz time: who said:

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?So before we get carried away, let’s read our Bible now.

Folks haven’t been reading their Bible.

Was it Michael Newdow; the contender for the world’s record for most lawsuits filed?Was it Dan Barker who is in competition with Michael Newdow for most lawsuits filed?Was it their big bully supporters the ACLU?

Was it Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins or any of the now dead New Atheist movement?

Was it any such celebrity or basement lever militant activist atheist?

Nay, nay. It was the Christian Bible in hand churchgoer President Barack Obama.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) is attempting to promulgate 2010 AD as the Year of the Bible. This would actually be the second Year of the Bible as 1983 AD was designated as such.
Rep. Paul Broun explains:

“This doesn’t have anything to do with Christianity,” he said in an interview with POLITICO. Rather, he says, it seeks to recognize that the Bible played an integral role in the building of the United States, including providing the basis for our freedom of religion that allows Muslims, Hindus and even atheists to vocalize their own beliefs_
“we must also not forget to protect and celebrate our fundamental freedoms that the Bible has influenced.”1

Also, along this line of thought:

[A] resolution to have the “Lincoln-Obama Bible” on permanent display in the Capitol Visitor Center_asks the president “to issue a proclamation calling upon citizens of all faiths to rediscover and apply the priceless, timeless message of the Holy Scripture which has profoundly influenced and shaped the United States and its great democratic form of government.”

Predictably,

atheist activists are dismissing the resolution, while none of the many Democrats in Congress who are Christian have bothered to sign on as co-sponsors.

Atheists should be ecstatic as those of the Dan Barker and Michael Newdow school of job security live for something to complain about, something to claim underdog victimhood status about, something to file lawsuits about and something to beg for donations about.

“Does that mean 2009 is not the year of the Bible?” mocked Rep. Barney Frank ­(D-Mass.), who is Jewish. “What is 2012 the year of? The Quran?”
“That’s an endorsement of religion by the federal government, and we shouldn’t be doing that,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

I wonder when Islamic groups will ask Rep. Barney Frank exactly what would be wrong with a year of the Qur’an? Contextually, the problem I envisage is that the Qur’an played no part in the building of the United States except that it did influence the black African Muslims who sold slaves to the white devils.

David Silverman (vice president and national spokesman of American Atheists promulgators of an “international symbol for Atheism“) expresses nonchalance about the whole issue

Right now, we’re seeing atheism on such a rise_We are seeing Christianity on such a dramatic decline that we’re not particularly worried about it.

This refers to the rise of atheism is America.

My favorite comments came from people, laypersonages and politicians, who complain that we have much more important things to do in America. Is this why during a time of worldwide recession atheists in the UK and USA are wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars purchasing bus ads and billboards in attempting to demonstrated just how clever then consider themselves to be rather than helping anyone at all?
Moreover, considering that the first concern of the Barack Obama administration upon taking office was ensuring the continued brutal and painful dismembering murder of beautiful, healthy, innocent and defenseless human babies who is to complain about the Year of the Bible?

One can only wonder what the Barack Obama administration will have to say on this issue, if they bother saying anything at all. Consider that they virtually forgot, or simply overlooked, the National Day of Prayer. The “Obama administration has announced that it will issue a proclamation marking the National Day of Prayer, it will not hold a formal White House event” the proclamation was signed on “Thursday, May 7, which makes it too late for organizations to distribute” thus, while the Legislative and Judicial Branches were represented at the event the Executive Branch did not bother.

This time American Atheist David Silverman was not so comfortable with atheism on such a rise and was particularly worried

It’s not his job to tell people to pray_When church and state are separate, separate is separate.2

Oh well, another militant activist atheist who does not know the difference between the Constitution’s Establishment Clause an a letter written by the Capitol Building Christian church attendee Thomas Jefferson. He also does not seem to understand that difference between telling people to pray and inviting people to pray.

We will just have to see how the proposed Year of the Bible is handled: start counting the lawsuits!

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