Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Ordered To Pray
A Christian theocracy in our country? How can you say that? You civil libertarians are all crazy!
[link] Witnesses said the presiding judge, Covington County Circuit Judge M. Ashley McKathan, told some 100 people, including members of the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church and other spectators and officials gathered for a conference regarding the church records case, to join hands in a circle as he prayed.
At one point, witnesses said, the judge fell to his knees.
Pfft. What's the big deal? A judge orders more than a hundred people in a state courtroom to gather in a prayer circle while he falls to his knees and prays. Who cares? What, are you some sort of atheist commie pinko?
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He follows a higher power than the Constitution
Apparently so.
What I find interesting, other than the fact that nobody is taking this idiot off the bench for the fact that he is so blatantly ignoring the Constitution and laws he is sworn to uphold, that the case is all about a church's financial records. If the Judge is a member of that church, or a member of another church, or a member of a different sect, could he be accused of being biased and unable to make a fair and unbiased decision??
I'd love to be there
I'd have loved to be there. I'm not normally too "in your face" about being an Atheist, but the thought of having the opportunity to tell some judge "No, I'm not going to join your prayer", and make a stink about it, makes me tingle. I might spend a day or two in jail for contempt, but I'd gladly do that as long as I got to bring pressure on that judge later.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Despite the content of my most recent post, I'm completely with you. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to say, "No, I will not join you in prayer.", "No, I will not bow my head and clasp my hands or join my hands with someone else's.", and "Your Honor, that "request" is not only unconstitutional but offensive as you're presuming that everyone here is of the same faith and of the same mind in faith."
Call a spade by any other name and it's still a shovel
I'm with you, RickU. At this moment I cannot think of a better jolt of wholesome goodness than to firmly, but politely, picking my words so as to make them fade into the terminology of the US Constitution, tell this judge to take a long hike on a short pier.
Here Come Da Judge
I'd be more likely to burst into loud laughter. And maybe ask "What country did you grow up in??"
PZ Myers is killin' those braying creationist jackasses over their silly "Expelled" movie -- they're changing their story almost daily trying to control the damage -- and he's doing it all with laughter. The more I think about it, the more I think laughter is a more powerful tool against idiots than angry resistance.
Because most of all, they're pathetically funny. Laugh at these little cockroaches, and when the bright lights turn their way, I think they'll scuttle like hell for their holes.
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On a side note, I took a workshop in stand-up comedy recently. Really enjoyed it. And I wish I was young enough, and confident enough, to become an atheist comic. Failing that, I wish somebody else would do it. There's a definite niche there, and oh boy, would it do some good for somebody to fill it.
"On your knees."
Doesn't that phrase sum up the entire religious mindset? And isn't the judge's behaviour and instruction to the courtroom a perfect indicator of how the fundies think that the country should be run?
Jim Downey
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