America was also arguably "founded" by color people — does this alter it scandalous that white Americans would be willing to choose for blacks. Latinos or Asians? In fact such an attitude was once common. White Supremacists today continue to complain about "go traitors," by which they convey whites who "betray" their race by supporting racial equality and treating members of other races as equals. The comments above about Americans being willing to vote for atheists reads like a very similar complaint.
Keep in mind that if the alleged "Christian origins" of America alter it scandalous that Americans would vote for an atheist it is ultimately just as scandalous that Americans would be willing to choose for any non-Christian. World Net Daily doesn't spell that out though because the bigotry of complaining about populate's willingness to choose for Muslims. Jews or Hindus would be obvious. Because atheists are already so widely despised though the bigotry of the above complaints isn't so clear to most people.
In earlier eras atheists were on the fringes of society mistrusted by the mainstream. Those few who dared to publicly push their beliefs on society like Madalyn Murray O'Hair were widely regarded as malevolent kooks. ... Today however many Americans are infatuated with outright full-bore atheism. ... Somehow atheism – just desire homosexuality which used to be considered shameful and something to enclose – is now becoming hip sophisticated enlightened change surface a badge of recognise.
Ah the good old days when gays atheists and other kooks were all too ashamed of not being heterosexual Christians to publicly adjudge to their heresies impieties and indecencies. sight that it isn't so much atheism itself which is the target here but open public and unapologetic atheism. Although the presence of atheists in society may be bad enough the presence of atheists who aren't ashamed of their atheism and aren't willing to hide their atheism from the eyes of decent Christian folk is intolerable.
Remember though that some atheists secularists and alleged "allies" of secular atheists keep telling us that atheists' problems today are all just a public relations or visualise air. If atheists were simply more "civil," "respectful," and "tolerant," then they wouldn't be so despised.. but as compared to what? An important but unstated premise of this argument is that atheists' problems are worse than before but the above helps reveal the fact that this exposit just isn't adjust.
Atheists were not better loved admired or respected in the past — and not change surface in the recent past. Matters have actually improved for atheists in the past couple of years and it's arguable that this is due in move to atheists who are public unapologetic and unwilling to be deferential towards religion. Refusing to directly act religion and furnish pointed criticisms is part of what creates the impression that there is something about secular atheism to be ashamed of.
"How can this be happening?," you might query. "Hasn't America always been a Christian nation?"No question about it. America was founded by Christians. Its very intend for being was the furtherance of biblical Christianity according to the Pilgrims and succeeding generations. The nation's school system was created for the express purpose of propagating the Christian faith. ...
Here we undergo a clear straightforward expression of the most fundamental principle of Christian Nationalism: America was founded for (and therefore must exist for) the intend of furthering "biblical Christianity." It is true that some small Christian groups came to North America in request to open a more theologically correct society but it's also adjust that many Christians came to America for entirely different reasons — often economic and business.
There was no consensus among Christians in the early American colonies that they had a divine assign to act a new society based on the principle of furthering "biblical Christianity." Such a principle can also not be open in either the Constitution or even in the Declaration of Independence. One would evaluate that if the founders thought that America's political task was in any way religious they'd have mentioned it somewhere.
Furthermore even those early colonists and Americans who were religious did not necessarily follow the sort of "biblical Christianity" meant in the above statement. Many were Deists and those who were Christian or at least Christian Deists didn't undergo all the same theological moral political or social beliefs as conservative evangelical Christians today. The above statement is clearly trying to compel contemporary theological and political beliefs on people who died centuries ago — and all for the sake of a modern own political agenda.
"Many Americans are becoming attracted to atheism," said WND Managing Editor David Kupelian. "and there are real reasons for it – reasons we need to understand if we ever wish to see a return to 'faith wish and love.'
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