Christians, Atheists, Agnostics and Others

I know lots of people. Most but not all are Christians. There are a sprinkeling of other types including atheists, agnostics, and Buddhists. No Muslims though. Not from choice or exclusion but rather from a lack of opportunity. See, I don’t seek out people based on their religion.

So, when I hear statements (1) that we have to watch the Anti-American and Anti-Religion activities on college campuses it makes my blood boil. For starters, the so-called “Anti-Religion” crap is a tired retread of the right wing cry “They [whoever “they” are is never defined] are trying to kill Christianity” in America. Nobody with a brain bigger than a pea actually believes that. Well, a lot of people actually seem to believe that, but they are all pea-brained morons. The people pumping that crap out are shrewd manipulators of the public they control. But I digress.
I have been on college campuses since 1958. Continuously. I have seen the civil rights era, the Woodstock era, the Vietnam war era, the shameful Nixon era, the fall of Communism era. I have seen, heard and been part of many different kinds of protests. WAKE UP RIGHT WINGERS!!!! This is AMERICA where freedom of speech and association is guaranteed by the same Constitution that you thump about guns.

Calling for the separation of Church and State is not an attack on Christianity. Keeping religion out of public events is not an attach on Christianity. It is the exercise of a Constitutional Right. You know, like the one to bear arms? And for the umpteenth time, THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION!! We do not have a national religion.

In America we all have the right to protest what we want, to be free of religious coercion and to hang around with whomever we want. GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION, so quit whining about the demise of your faith and read the Constitution instead of the Bible. You might actually learn something.

1. Private correspondence

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