Atheists are Sometimes Just Like Muslims


By Bernie on 22 Jun 2011




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I understand that Islam commands its faithful not to eat the meat of pigs, that's fine, I have no problem with that. What burns my bacon is when Muslims go to extremes as they always do. Some of my readers may recall in my article Offend No One, I discussed the case of a UK educational agency rejecting a digital remake of the story of the Three Little Pigs because "the use of pigs raises cultural issues."

What that last bit of nonsense actually means in normal human speech is that they are afraid that Muslims will go berserk and kill people if they see or read about pigs.

In a similar manner, some atheists are exactly like Muslims. Read how some atheist morons are offended that a section of a street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is now officially called "Seven in Heaven Way."

No God Blog, 20 Jun 2011, Seven in Heaven Street

A group of firefighters who died in 9/11 have been honored the wrong way. A street has been named for them which, unfortunately, encroaches unnecessarily on the separation of Church and State.

Named “Seven in Heaven Way”, the street uses the tragedy of 911 to legitimize Christianity by asserting that Heaven is a real place, and that all these heroes are actually there. Now, I am not sure if all seven of the named firefighters were Christian, or if they were “good Christians”, but that’s not relevant. What’s important to remember here is that these men died in a religious attack against ALL of America. The Muslim extremists attacked the Constitution, not just the Towers and the Pentagon.


If we follow this idiotic argument to its logical conclusion, then we should not allow the names of any religious or mythical persons, places or things on anything, anywhere.

Atheists should have objected to NASA calling their effort to land man on the moon The Apollo program lest someone mistakenly assume that a mythical Greek God helped loft the rockets into space.

Perhaps atheists should demand that Los Angeles change 86 street names that refer to Christian Saints? 1

How do the following names in New York City force religion down anyone's throat: Saint Mark's Place and Saint Nicholas Avenue?

Don't like the city sponsoring St. Patrick's Day Parade? Don't go.

Should public school text books change the name of the planet Jupiter to Planet Five so that young children are not gulled into thinking that the Roman god Jupiter actually exists?

I am an atheist, but I don't waste my time acting like a Muslim. Street and place names cannot turn into laws respecting an establishment of religion - they are just names.

Are there street names that should not be adopted? I can think of one.

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Notes


(1):

The Unreligious Right, I Guess We Need to Rename LA and Its Streets

the city of Los Angeles is one giant violation of the constitution. First off, it is named after angels. Like heaven, angels are part of Christian theology. Therefore calling it the city of angels must be a violation of church state separation. But it gets worse. Not only is it named for mythical beings endorsed by Christianity, but it actually has 86 streets named after Catholic saints 2.

(2):

Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct 2003, Artist Answers Call to Portray Street Saints of L.A.

Four years ago, J. Michael Walker was flipping through the bible of Los Angeles motorists -- the Thomas Guide -- when his eye caught something that stirred inspiration. The City of Angels was filled with streets named for saints.

There were well-known names, like San Pedro and San Fernando and San Gabriel. There were more obscure ones, like San Jacinto and San Blas. All told, there were 86 of them. Like most every L.A. driver, Walker had probably driven many of those streets countless times.





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