A South Carolina charter school has canceled its annual Christmas toy drive after a group of self-described humanists complained that the project violated the U.S. Constitution and accused them of bribing children to convert to Christianity.
Renee Mathews, the principal of East Point Academy in West Columbia, S.C., said the annual Operation Christmas Child project was halted because the American Humanist Association threatened to sue the school.
“We received a letter saying we had to cease and desist immediately or they would take legal action against us,” Mathews told me.
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This is pathetic, and these are the sort of collectivist, nanny-state, busybody, misanthropic losers who give atheists a bad name.
ReplyDeleteSheesh, how many ways can these idiots be wrong?
1) The Constitution doesn't guarantee that you'll never have to witness anything that causes a twinge of discomfort in your irritable, hypersensitive uterus. It merely mandates that there not be a government established religion. If you seriously believe that a Christmas tree display constitutes "establishment of religion" you're a lunatic.
2) If your convictions are so weak that you think your children could be "bribed" to embrace a belief system alien to your own by a Christmas display and a donated toy your convictions aren't worthy of the name. And what about letting your kids make up their own minds? Isn't thinking for yourself what atheism and humanism are supposed to be about?
3) Atheists and humanists are supposed to pride themselves on being "freethinkers." What kind of freethinker uses the threat of a lawsuit to prevent others from engaging in peaceful behaviour merely because they happen to dislike it? This is, for those of us who care about such things, initiation of force. Which, as you may recall, was severely frowned upon by none other than Ayn Rand, individualist philosopher and atheist--who also loved Christmas and the celebration that went with it.
4) What kind of monster tries to stop a toy drive at Christmas regardless of their beliefs or lack thereof?
This kind of nonsense annoys me every year. As an atheist, I am bone tired of these self-righteous twits that can't just believe what they believe, but have to try to ruin everybody else's holiday with their stupid lawsuits, complaints, and constant overweening sense of victimhood.
Thank you for the opportunity to vent. And it's a bit early, but I hope everyone reading has a Merry, Joyful and Blessed Christmas.
Collectivists aren't happy until thy can control everything you do and why they must be exterminated. Orkin? :)
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