The Atheists Conundrum

[Demo_Chris]

25. It is not that they believe, it is WHAT they believe

When President Obama put his hand on that Bible, he was giving his endorsement, his stamp of approval, to that system of beliefs. He was saying, "This is legitimate, this is true, this stuff is so real that even the President of the United States wouldn't dare take violate an oath made in this way." The same applies to the prayers, services, and the many shout-outs to god over the course of these festivities. Clearly, these people, the President and Vice President, the Supreme Court Justices, the many many speakers, the leaders and role models of this nation, clearly they must ALL believe.

God wasn’t just a witness here, he was center stage, and after the President and Vice President, no one was mentioned more. That wasn’t just an endorsement it was star billing. We might as well have put the word JESUS up there in lights.

But what is it that they believe?

The bible that President Obama and all of these people just endorsed teaches that gays and lesbians must be murdered. It teaches that woman are inferior and mentally deficient, that their proper role is to be subservient to men, that they are unworthy to speak when one of their male betters is speaking, that at certain times of the month they are unclean and disgusting. That this is a curse god has laid upon them for their leadership role in the fall of man.

This same book teaches that blacks are deserving of slavery and segregation. The largest denomination in America, the Southern Baptist Conference, was FOUNDED on this moral premise.

It teaches that sex for purposes other than reproduction is a crime in the eyes of the Lord, that sodomy and adultery and sex for the fun of sex, must be punished by torturing the practitioners to death. Nor does the carnage stop there; the list of “crimes” for which a person should be tortured and killed is far too long to bother with here.

It teaches that the earth in only 6000 years old, that man was crafted from dirt, and woman created from that man to serve as his helper and joyless sexual receptacle. It teaches that knowledge and reason are not just sins, but the original sin that led to the fall of man.

It teaches that men should spend their lives in mindless slavery to god and his earthly representatives. It teaches that men should happily live in misery here on this earth, that they should welcome suffering and persecution and injustice, in the hope of better times once they are dead.

Now some reading this are saying:

“I don’t believe all of THAT! I believe in this part, and that bit over there, but the rest not so much.”

And that’s fine. You believe in some parts, I believe in none, but when our leaders stood up there and gave their endorsement, they were endorsing all of it, even if they had mental reservations at the time.

You don’t want Creationism taught in schools. You don’t believe unmarried couples should be dragged screaming into the town square to be stoned to death. You don’t believe that we should execute a girl who is not a virgin at marriage. You don’t believe we should round up and slaughter those who work on Saturday. You don’t believe its okay to murder disobedient children or to burn witches. In fact, no one who will read this believes the ridiculous story in the Bible. At best, they believe a highly edited and interpreted version as told to them by some guy in a church asking for money. Jesus loves all the little children, amen.

But what does President Obama believe? More important, why in the hell are we even having a conversation about this insane bullshit? Why are we STILL excusing or demanding that our leaders take part in Stone Age magic rituals?

Enough is enough.