Chuck Norris has a few incisive comments about the War on Christmas, particularly the mean-spirited displays erected by atheists that state governments have cravenly allowed as accompaniments to menorahs and creches. It's a fine piece containing a good dose of rationality, history and humor.Atheists from England to the West Coast of America are stepping up their efforts this year to make a bigger antagonistic splash on the Christmas scene. From London and Washington, D.C., buses to Colorado billboards, skeptics are skewering religions with little respect to the adherents of the religions.
At the forefront is a group's government-sanctioned posting of a sign by a Nativity scene in the Capitol of Washington state (and now also in Wisconsin and Illinois): "At this season of THE WINTER SOLSTICE may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
I am a patriot, and I believe that atheists are free to believe, speak and post whatever they want. This is America, and that's their First Amendment right. But to do so with harassment and hatred under the guise of free speech is despicable. An anti-religious poster filled with spite is in no way equal to a religious symbol, such as a Nativity scene.
Where are the political correctness police when religious followers are the victims? If such words were written against any social minority group, protests would be ubiquitous. But anti-religious bigotry is in vogue these days...
