Palling around with atheists
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Sorry, sort of an aside – but I can’t let this sentence on The Huffington Post pass without comment. I’d heard about this story, but reading this takes the proverbial:
“Some said fresh polling in North Carolina suggested that incumbent GOP Elizabeth Dole had fallen further behind since airing an ad that tried to tie Democratic rival Kay Hagan to atheists.”
WTF? Tying someone to atheism? So we atheists are up there with terrorists now, are we?
This makes me so angry. Honestly. In terms of all the things that are on their way out after eight years, can we not also make ‘fear and hatred of atheism’ one of them, please? Can we perhaps move to the acceptance that it’s perfectly possible to lead a moral and good life without believing in a supernatural being?
And people wonder why Richard Dawkins gets so fired up. Arrggghh.
(Here’s the background to the story, btw. Apparently, calling someone atheist is also “one hell of a charge”. I give up. No, wait! I don’t. I remain hopeful.)
