Re: cancel christmas???
JB, Knoxes, Snapperbait, I am with you.<br /><br />I am an atheist.<br /><br />I believe in your right to practice your religion as well as my right to not practice your religion. That right is granted by the constitution of my country and I will fight for it. That is, I will fight for your right and mine even though you asked me to leave your (my) country.<br /><br />Our money and pledge was changed in the fifties in gross violation of the constitution of this country. Does it bother me? Yes. I am forced to look at someone's religion being put over anothers. In addition, I have forfeited my right to not practice a religion even though that is guaranteed by the constitution.<br /><br />I will fight for everyone's right to free speech. That even means fighting for your freedom to tell me to leave the country.<br /><br />I suggest that you really think about what the constitution says. It does not say, people have these freedoms as long as they agree with me, it says people have the freedom to free speech and to be free to practice the religion of their choice without hindrance even if this freedom is not practicing a religion, period.<br /><br />Take a look at a lot of the wars and terrorism out there. Why is it being perpetrated? A lot of it has to do with religion. Who is right and who wants a state that practices just this religion or that? Is that what we want here?<br /><br />As for morals, religion has nothing to do with it. Where are the morals in discrimination? Where are the morals in stealing, or sexual assault? I hear more discriminatory comments from the religious people around me than the non-religious people. Where are the morals in that? Take a look at the news. <br /><br />My child has been brought up with my morals. He will not lie, cheat, steal, discriminate, or hurt other people. He also has complete religious freedom. If he decides he believes in god, or wants to go to church, I will drive him. It is his right to make his own decision, and not mine to decide it for him.<br /><br />This was a tough one to write. My first reaction was extreme anger that someone was attacking me. Not by name, but by my beliefs. It would have been have been easy to flame and react, but what it really did for me is to give me time to move back and think about the bigger picture and what freedoms our constitution give all of us.<br /><br />Ok, one mroe comment. Cancel Christmas. Heck no. JB is right it is just another hijacked Pagan holiday. It doesn't matter. You call it Christmas, I call it a holiday. I call Halloween, Halloween. Oops, there's another one of those pesky hijacked Pagan holidays again.<br /><br />Ok maybe another comment. Political correctness has went too far. The constitution does not gaurantee our right to not be offended. In fact, it is just the opposite. It says that everyone has the right to say what they want whether it is offensive or not. As soon as we lose that right, we have lost one of our basic freedoms.
