On another article, a blogger expressed support for a student in Las Vegas, Nevada, who dared to use offensive language that caused the school board to rush in a panic to cut off the student's microphone. This evil, hate speech permeated the auditorium, and the ears of sensitive listeners and clearly had to be quashed!
The offensive word? The "G" word (I'm afraid to say it on my blog, I might wind up getting sued or something). Yup, that's right, this student dared to utter the word "God" in front of an assembly of students, parents, and school administrators.
I understand the positions of true atheists very well. They don't believe in God, fine. That's as valid a position as is believing in God. But many atheists (actually antitheists) have long passed the point of rationality and have passed on to what can only be described as religiophobia. These religiophobes (remember, folks, you heard it here first), react to the mere mention of a higher power with the same morbid fear as a vampire splashed with holy water, and the mere utterance of the name is enough to drive them into fits, threatening lawsuits. While religiophobes represent a miniscule portion of this nation's population, they wield a disproportionate amount of power from those who have misread into the Constitution the nonexistent right not to be offended.
What they don't understand is basic physics. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When they start pissing off people who are normally neutral on these issues, it is inevitable that there will eventually be some sort of backlash. One must hope that somehow it is peaceful, but history records such reactions to be anything but.
My response to religiophobes: DEAL WITH IT! We have to put up with your politically correct embracing of every form of deviancy as not only acceptable, but, in fact, good and decent, and your interweaving your sick philosophies into our school systems. We DON'T have to put up with your demanding that we, or our children, must not be allowed to proclaim our faiths publicly.