“When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don’t believe something to be true, wouldn’t you just ignore it? That’s certainly what I do. Whether it’s leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan – if I’m convinced it’s fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.”
-Laura Ingraham (radio show host, TV commentor, author (“Shut up and Sing”)
It often seems that these New Atheists are bound and determined to make President Obama’s oft use phrase “Freedom to Worship” exactly that: your faith is protected but only within the four walls of your house of Worship – privately. Every day or every other day, it seems, I see yet another story where atheists are attacking people of faith for their “free expression” in the public arena.
I agree with Ingraham – if you don’t believe in God, why all the angst and anger against those of us that do? You may think our belief is silly; so be it. But to rail that we cannot live our lives according to our beliefs to the point of litigating it, one can only belief that your belief means NO one can have a belief except your’s. And make no mistake, doing so gives you a rigid orthodoxy as strong as any fundamentalist Baptist that I’ve known.
Except they never sued anyone.
