Fox news got wind of the proposal for a National Day of Reason, and the stupid is on tap.
Two congressional representatives are sponsoring a resolution to create a secular alternative to the National Day of Prayer. No big deal right? Wrong! The nice Fox News Christians on Outnumbered say that this is another attempt, by “mean” atheists, TO DESTROY OUR CHRISTIAN AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!
Sandra Smith continued to pimp the patented Fox anti-atheist agitprop: “Can’t they just leave our National Day of Prayer alone?” Doing some concern trolling, Harris Faulkner that her “biggest problem” is that this “causes a day of judgment” because it causes folks to ask others “why aren’t you into the Day of Prayer, why are you only into the Day of Reason.”
When Baker quipped that he liked her idea of a day for judging, Andrea Tantaros, with her comment about how “every day is a day for judging,” actually described Fox News! She “joked” that it is “rich” that those in Washington are calling for reason. Devout Christian Tantaros worked in the propaganda coup-de grace: “I think atheists in our culture have caused this culture to become so secular, so coarsened, and so godless. I think the atheists have won a lot of battles and they get most days in this country. Let the Christians have the National Day of Prayer, I mean really.”
How about “No”? Christians don’t just want one day. They want them all.
You know what really bugs me? It’s that the whole National Day of Prayer flies in the face of their own holy book -- the bible condemns those who pray in public.
What’s needed is a National Day for Being Stomped on by Forty-Foot High Killer Rats.
(The mildly deranged penguin suggests an International Millennium for Feeding Her Cheese.)
Blf:
Those both sound good to me.
Does anyone find it odd in a telling way that Christians complain that a National Day of Reason is some sort of excluding activity directed at them? Isn’t reasoning something that we’re all supposed to be able to do, regardless of religious preference?
Culuriel @ 5:
I’m afraid I find it standard religio-conservative thinking. It’s always half done, they never seem to think anything through.
Although “they” seem to have a endless ability to produce more spittle, it isn’t created instantaneously / when-needed; instead, it’s slowly extruded into a reservoir over time. Hence, when the panties are twisted sufficiently tight, the available supply of spittle is used up, at which time the “thinking” stops, since “everyone” knows spraying spittle is a necessary part of a great mind in action. (The exhaust or something…) Thus the half-doneness, the not thinking it through… “They” ran out of spittle.
(Sometimes, of course, there is a pause to clean the screen / keyboard / whatever, since the stuff does tend to accumulate and block vision. And then there’s the problem of reingesting some of the flying spittle, which is usually fixed by leaning over so it pours out of some the many holes “they” tend to have in the head.)