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Interests => Religious Discussions => Topic started by: mrclose on December 11, 2014, 12:18:28 AM
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A City Council Meeting In Florida!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeBq9gLrnPo
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I would have walked out too. :-)
Too bad the vid didn't show the other doorways.
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Lake Worth, Florida.
I had trouble hearing what that ****stick (his name is Preston Smith, not that that is a particularly high point and subject of higher learning) was saying, so here's the rest of the story and the text:
Duly noted.
Our collective atheism — which is to say, loving empathy, scientific evidence, and critical thinking — leads us to believe that we can create a better, more equal community without religious divisions.
May we pray together.
Mother Earth, we gather today in your redeeming and glorious presence, to invoke your eternal guidance in the universe, the original Creator of all things.
May the efforts of this council blend the righteousness of Allah with the all-knowing wisdom of Satan. May Zeus, the great God of justice, grant us strength tonight. Jesus might forgive our shortcomings while Buddha enlightens us through His divine affection. We praise you, Krishna, for the sanguine sacrifice that freed us all. After all, if Almighty Thor is with us, who can ever be against us?
And finally, for the bounty of logic, reason, and science, we simply thank the atheists, agnostics, Humanists, who now account for 1 in 5 Americans, and [are] growing rapidly. In closing, let us, above all, love one another, not to obtain mythical rewards for ourselves now, hereafter, or based on superstitious threats of eternal damnation, but rather, embrace secular-based principles of morality — and do good for goodness’ sake.
And so we pray.
So what?
Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/12/05/in-lake-worth-florida-an-atheists-invocation-offered-thanks-to-allah-zeus-satan-buddha-krishna-and-thor/#ixzz3LbIbHoyr
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If atheists don't believe in anything, why do they pray? He wasn't inclusive of a lot of other groups out there, if that was his point. What I got from it was mockery.
He also didn't say the pledge of allegiance.
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If atheists don't believe in anything, why do they pray? He wasn't inclusive of a lot of other groups out there, if that was his point. What I got from it was mockery.
He also didn't say the pledge of allegiance.
that was the tradeoff. If the council wanted to recite the pledge, they were going to have to listen to his bullshit.
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that was the tradeoff. If the council wanted to recite the pledge, they were going to have to listen to his bullshit.
Spineless city council. I'd have no problem saying, 'for the record, get the **** out if you don't like the Pledge of Allegiance'.
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It didn't end well for Madalyn Murray Ohair.