Take a stand against anti-atheist bigotry
Quite often I get asked why communities like Atheist Nexus are necessary. For various reasons, there are several nonbelievers who have no real difficulty being open with their atheist. They don’t feel ostracized and are able to live a comfortable and peaceful life. I wish we all could this could be the case for all of us. However, this is not true for many nontheists who live in the South. Most of us have no community of like-minded individuals, and are continually bombarded with anti-atheist bigotry. A perfect example of this is a column written by Emmett Cabe for the Georgian newspaper the Rome News-Tribune. It is entitled: Atheists in trouble at the end of it all.
People think they came from monkeys and the world just happened. They do not believe God took a handful of dirt and made them. I wonder how they ever got off the banana diet. God has something to say about that kind of person. “The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.” (Psalm 53)
Yes, the atheist say the Bible is just an old book of fairy tales, The Bible is not of human origin yet it exists in a human world as God’s word to man. Because of the evil in some men the word of God painful to them, and they strike out against it. But instead of destroying the word they only cause it to increase. The Bible was here before they got here and will be here when this letter writer is gone. Atheists get lost between dusk and dawn.
The Russians don’t think highly of them either. There is a story of the local commissar who asked about the crop and was told, “Under our glorious leader, our potato crop has prospered indeed. If all our potatoes were piled up, they would form the very feet of God.”
“But,” sputtered the commissar, “surely you know there is no God.”
The peasant smiled and replied, “Perhaps that is why there are no potatoes either.”
I believe in — and worship — God. When I die, if there is no God, I have nothing to lose. But when the atheist dies and he finds out there is a God — and I know there is — he has everything to lose. Hell is a hot place to go.
What a bigoted jerk. This idiot obviously has no clue that Pascal’s Wager is a tired and ridiculous argument. If someone would write an article that targeted Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Republicans, or Democrats, this newspaper would not even print it.
I ask you to please post comments on this article. Let your Southern brother and sister atheists know they are not alone.
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I'll take your bigoted jerk, Brother Richard, and raise you the Vice Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-cult...
Some choice excerpts from this tirade in the Melbourne Age – a major metropolitan daily:
A plague of atheists has descended, and Catholics are the target.
"FROM time immemorial, this world has been troubled by plagues. From bogong moths in Canberra to frogs in biblical Egypt, unwelcome and unlovely creatures have the awkward habit of turning up in bulk.
Just now, we are facing one of our largest and least appealing infestations. Somewhat in advance of summer's blowflies, we are beset by atheists."
"… the new hobby atheist is as brash, noisy and confident as a cheap electric kettle. "
"I simply place [atheists] in much the same pitiable bin of intellectual vulgarians as the chartered accountant who cannot see the art in Picasso, the redneck who cannot admit of indigenous culture, and the pissant who cannot see the difference between Yeats and Bob Ellis [a left wing political writer]."
But wait … there's more! As they say on the home shopping shows. Read it and weep. But read the comments and you'll be happier than if you got a free set of steak knives.