Fox News Priest Trashes Reason Rally Because Some Atheists Want You to Stop Believing in God

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/06/06/fox-news-priest-trashes-reason-rally-because-some-atheists-want-you-to-stop-believing-in-god/

Fox News did a brief segment on the Reason Rally yesterday. But, as you might expect, producers didn’t invite any of the organizers or attendees to offer their perspectives.

Instead, they had Father Jonathan Morris, resident Catholic, trash the event all by himself.

His biggest complaint? There are some atheists (at the Rally and in life) who want to persuade other people to shed their faith!

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Now there’s a criticism Morris never seems to make about evangelical Christians… it’s okay when religious people try to convert you, but it’s downright horrible when atheists try to persuade you to think like them… even at a rally celebrating atheism.

The Reason Rally: continuing to piss off the assholes even when it's over. Awesome.

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1. Is there a place where individual speeches categorized by subject are accessible?

I'd like to hear to what speakers had to say about immigration.

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3. I would have thought

You'd want to hear what they had to say about guns.

That is your obsession, after all, isn't it?

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4. You may have been fed a few myths about atheism. We are interested in many moral issues.

I would have thought

You'd want to hear what they had to say about guns.

That is your obsession, after all, isn't it?

But I can certainly understand your concerns about guns in our society.

I'm sure that they had speakers on that important moral issue, as well.

Hopefully, we can both find what we are looking for at the same place, if there's a link to the individual speeches, categorized by topic.

[trotsky]

5. Looks like there is a "Contact Us" page on the website.

You should use that.

http://reasonrally.org/contact-us/

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6. Not looking to contact them via email.

Just looking for any info that they choose to make available to the general public.

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7. Good luck then.

Sorry to suggest putting forth any effort.

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8. I'm not in a hurry. They'll put it out there on their own schedule.

Not looking for videos in my email inbox.

Just the publicly accessible stuff.

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2. Attendance

It seemed that the images of the crowd were carefully framed to minimize attendance. The collar made a point of it. So how many people showed up?

There were a lot of pics at the Patheos site of signs and t-shirts that could be candidates for meme of the week.

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9. A major news network airs a segment on the rise of non-belief.

Who do they pick for commentary? A fucking priest.

Seems legit.