ATHEISSTS VERSUS 'BELIEVERS'

     Religion has always been like the 'Emperor with no clothes' to me.  Many of the masses 

see that he is naked but do not dare to be alone to speak up.  It took children with no prejudices or investment if they said something other than that which all others did not dare to contradict the majority.  I believe it is that way in Washington still today.  Republicans, in majority, see that the party has no clothes', no platform that coincides with the wishes of its constituents.  No one dares to break rank.  They fear not holding the fat cow they currently have and little realize the party is quickly losing ground and so will they.

     Don Merico (CNN) has written an article which heads:  "The money man behind atheism's activism"  To read this in entirety, click here.   Todd Stiefel is from Raleigh , North Carolina.  He is a former Catholic but, more importantly, he has enough money to fund the Stiefel Freethought Foundation.

     “What I am trying to accomplish is multifold, he told CNN. “I consider myself working on the next civil equality movement, just like women’s rights, LGBT rights and African-American Civil Rights. We are still in the early stages of eliminating discrimination against atheists and humanists. That is something I really want to accomplish.”  At Duke University, taking a class in the Old Testament, he said: " he saw a flawed logic in the Old Testament. In particular, he said, he began to see much of the Old Testament as unoriginal stories that had been told in many pagan traditions.“

'Wait a second, is what I believe in really the truth or is it really the accumulation of myths bundled in a package?’” Stiefel remembers asking himself. “That was the end of my faith right there.”

     That is how most begin to question what various churches teach.  It is easier to find people with whom to discuss this today, though most are still hiding in the closet.  Especially in government, because the religious right is not tolerating the anti-religious,  it is more difficult to openly question and retain office. Though our Constitution asks to separate church and state we are not following that in our government today.  Hopefully, some day as the curtain revealed the Wizard of Oz as a fake, religion as a business, well-funded, will morph into what it should have been all along...a place for socializing, a place where children can be brought with their parents and mingle with other children well supervised, and a place that will foster  an understanding of morals and integrity no stipulated by fanatics, paranoids, and celibates ho do not accept that we are 2000 years after Christ and do not wish to live in the dark ages of society and reason.