I realize that I should be writing about stuff that matters, but things are really just too depressing out there, what with the “compromise” and all down there in Washington. So, I prefer to celebrate a tiny victory.
Down in Fort Worth, in Texas, the state where they inflict prayer on you at high school football games, the persecuted Christians got all upset when a group of atheists put an ad on a bus that read “Millions of Americans are Good Without God”. Well, suddenly all those Christians got all sensitive-like about having someone else’s religion (or lack thereof) shoved down their throats.
Unfortunately, even in Texas the courts aren’t likely to say that you can let religious ads on the busses (and of course there have been plenty) and bar atheistical ads. Not yet of course, though I’d give even money that the current Supreme Court could find a way. But, not wanting to bear the cost, the Transportation Authority has banned all religious ads. Reminds me of the school board in Utah that banned all extracurricular groups because the courts wouldn’t let them ban a gay and lesbian group. What was that about a nose and a face?
Perhaps this is one way to impose reason on this benighted land. Atheists and non-Christians everywhere should put up displays next to creches, demand their turn to give the benedictions or prayers at public meetings, even, if they have the guts, demand equal time at those Texas football games. Now folks, if they do that, only two things can happen. The whole country might become tolerant and realize the error of its ways and that really the government ought to just stay out of religion for everyone’s good, or, more realistically, the country will double down on intolerance by following the Fort Worth example. Either way, we win.
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