Freedom From Religion Foundation
Someone asked about a thread to discuss the actions of a group called “Freedom From Religion Foundation” who recently made some noise against the practice of having a prayer offered at a Kindergarten Graduation. As far as I have been able to determine nothing official has been done by this group other than to make a complaint to the school director.
This is from their website:
“Welcome to the Freedom from Religion Foundation
The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In modern times the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women's right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery. The Foundation works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.”
As you can see they have taken the liberty to re-write much of western history to show them in a more favorable light. The truth is however that they are just another anti American, God hating, pseudo-intellectual, group of liberals set on the banishment of other peoples freedoms in favor of their own.
Understanding that the worship of God is only one small part of what being religious means, there are few groups that are as religious as atheist. The dictionary defines religion as “the service and worship of God or the supernatural.” A second definition is “a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices”. Basically it’s this belief and practice, that man is the only god, that has become the atheist‘s religion. While man may possess many great traits and abilities he has yet to create one single solitary thing, the best he has been able to do is re-arrange and combine things that were already here.
For me every person has the right to worship anything they choose but they have no right to prevent me from exercising that same right. Sacrificing babies on the alter of selfishness is disgusting yet I must accept that some believe in that religion. The difference is that when a person practices that religion it becomes the most hideous of murders and steals the rights of that child, thus imposing another’s destructive will on them.
This is from their website:
“Welcome to the Freedom from Religion Foundation
The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In modern times the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women's right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery. The Foundation works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.”
As you can see they have taken the liberty to re-write much of western history to show them in a more favorable light. The truth is however that they are just another anti American, God hating, pseudo-intellectual, group of liberals set on the banishment of other peoples freedoms in favor of their own.
Understanding that the worship of God is only one small part of what being religious means, there are few groups that are as religious as atheist. The dictionary defines religion as “the service and worship of God or the supernatural.” A second definition is “a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices”. Basically it’s this belief and practice, that man is the only god, that has become the atheist‘s religion. While man may possess many great traits and abilities he has yet to create one single solitary thing, the best he has been able to do is re-arrange and combine things that were already here.
For me every person has the right to worship anything they choose but they have no right to prevent me from exercising that same right. Sacrificing babies on the alter of selfishness is disgusting yet I must accept that some believe in that religion. The difference is that when a person practices that religion it becomes the most hideous of murders and steals the rights of that child, thus imposing another’s destructive will on them.
posted by Allen Barrett | 12:04 PM
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