Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, December 26, 2008 12:45:11 AM
During the current Christmas season the Freedom From Religion Foundation brazenly
posted a profane sign ridiculing the Christian religion beside a manger scene in
Olympia, the capitol city of Washington state. Pretty ballsy, eh? Not so! Not so by a
long shot.
FRFF published an article on their website decrying "Christian Crybabies" when
many oersons of faith reacted negatively to their planned desecration. But the naked
fact is that these charlatans are not brave at all. On the contrary, they are craven
cowards hiding behind their trite signs, defamatory web articles and spiteful
rhetoric, while employing legal bullying tactics to try to exterminate every remnant
of the faith that built the United States of America and upon which its legal system
is incontestably based.
Here's why they're cowards. While they claim antipathy toward all religion, you
won't see them protesting Islamic calls to prayer during Ramdan, Muslim prayer
rooms in public airports, a Muslim public school in New York or attempts by
the banking industry to cater to Sharia law? They only pick on Christians, who
won't issue fatwahs ordering their deaths, slit their throats in a holy jihad or
behead them simply because they are militant unbelievers. They don't mind
persecuting Christians who may complain, but will basically turn the other
cheek, knowing that Christianity and its millions of followers will be around
long after these loudmouthed bigots are dead and gone. If they weren't so yellow-
bellied they'd go after the Muslims too, along with every Menorah displayed
during Hanukkah.
They're also cowards because of their intellectual dishonesty. Pointing to the
winter solstice as the true winter holy day and mocking Christmas, they
represent the pagan celebration as a focus of natural irreligion, extolling the
musty old Druid sorcerers who touted it as the truly enlightened. These are the
folks who celebrate whatever it is they celebrate by drumming and dancing around
the fire -- sans the seasonal roasting chestnuts. If the mere thought of that makes you
want to rip down your Christmas decorations, return your gifts and put your mantel
manger scene out on e-bay, maybe you should check what you're smoking too. Their
exaltation of the solstice is the rankest kind of revisionist history. If you don't
believe it check out the number of pilgrims lined up to make a Christmas
pilgrimage to Stonehenge, then compare that coven of three or four with the
thousands who flock to Bethlehem at this season each year. The atheists don't
like it, but even they're not dumb enough to deny that it's true.
Finally, atheists are the epitome of spiritual cowardice. Faith entails a risk,
and they're simply not willing to venture into terrirory that does not immediately
commend itself to their very limited reason. Their sign says that religion is
"myth and superstition, so just be good for goodness sake." Aside from their
lame plagiarism of the line from "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," where do
they think the standard of goodness originates? Who decides what's good, them?
If so, God help us all (no pun intended). They won't believe in anything science
can't prove, and they're jealous of and angry about those of us who are proud
that we have a faith.
The sign they posted in Olympia mysteriously disappeared, only to be found days
later in Seattle. It's a kind of quaint parody on the future of their hateful movement.
When people are still flocking to Bethlehem, either physically or in spirit, when the
Chrismas homefires are still burning, the brightly lit trees and manger scenes announcing
the season of Christianity's holiest season, like their stupid sign they'll mysteriously
disappear. Oh, they might pop up somewhere else periodically -- knuckleheads are
always with us. But they're doomed to ALWAYS be a minority. And one day they'll
find out how very, very wrong they were!