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Following up on our discussion of how it is OK to be an Atheist as long as you know your place, we find a classic example of the kind of thinking that rationalist non-believers encounter all the time, even if it is not spoken out loud. This time it is spoken out loud:
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The governor of Illinois has been playing some games with state money, shuffling a million dollars to benefit a Baptist church, and an atheist dared to testify to the legislature against this. The response from one legislator was unsurprising: she shrieked at the atheist to get out.
Rep. Monique…
Remember the Atheist Sign that ruined everything for everybody up in Washington State? Well, now those damn free thinkers are going to impose their freedom of speech on the god fearing (or should that be "atheist fearing") people of Illinois.
Here's the sign being provided by the Freedom from…
Hey, I'm home again! To Boston and back again in 30 hours is a bit much, I'm afraid—I need a nap, but work awaits me.
We did have a brief gathering of science blog fans at Darwin's this morning: Mark (whose last name I didn't get…he can 'fess up in a comment),
Revere (why isn't everyone reading his…
Debatable. Honest Abe converted to Christianity shortly after his death.
After his death? Is this snark or a typo?
The most certain thing we can say about Lincoln is that he was a freethinker. He rejected the Bible and Christianity specifically, but it's open question whether he would consider himself an Atheist, Agnostic, Deist, or Pantheist.
Here's an excellent piece I found the other day about Lincoln and freethought.
Snark, but snark based in reality. There were false stories spread about Lincoln and his godliness after he was not around to refute them.
I'll bet he's baptised as a Mrmon by now, anyway.
Now that one was a typo. I meant "Mormon."
I learned about Abe Lincoln several years ago. Someone tried to use Lincoln to suggest that I should be religious, so I looked it up... boy were they sorry.