CNN Bashes Atheists
I’ve written before about a story on CNN that implied that atheists aren’t repulsed by extremist religious views. It was the sort of badly-worded statement that clearly wasn’t intended as an attack on atheists, but that showed a general lack of consideration:
His extremist views may be repugnant to the vast majority of muslims — in fact, anyone who believes in God.
Well, that was nothing. How about some overt atheist bashing?
This is just astonishing to me. They run a story that clearly shows that this family was discriminated against, and follow it up with a panel discussion that backs up just about everything that town did to the family. Where was the atheist on the panel, or at the very least, where was somebody who actually has an understanding of the first amendment? Freedom of religion doesn’t include freedom from religion? Yes, it fucking well does. Or at least it’s supposed to.
Tags: Atheism, Discrimination, Eye of Hell, First-Amendment, Media, Religion, Video
Category: Eye of Hell, Media, Religion, Video
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Comments (3)
Austin Cline (1 comments) on 07 Feb 2007 at 5:37 pm #
I’ve linked to your post in a follow-up to my original February 1 post on the issue.
mike (5 comments) on 07 Feb 2007 at 9:14 pm #
You know what is really odd?
The common perception of God is one that philosophy through out years ago, ironically because the attempts to prove what was then thought to be an intellecual certainty, God’s existence, all proved to point to no God, or at least supreme doubt.
My Favourite bit was where the Jewish Lady talks about Europe becoming Muslim and Bad, and that the “strong Christians” saved America. <sarcasm>I rad that comprehensive study that wasn’t based upon any hearsay whatsoever, and it was very convincing</sarcasm>
qwerty (65 comments) on 08 Feb 2007 at 2:12 am #
Thanks, Austin. I’ve seen your stuff on the General’s site, but I didn’t know you were an editor at about.com.