As an atheist the issue for you was never really which God or whose God he spoke about...The issue was your personal objection to his mentioning God period.
I couldn’t care less if he mentions God. Everyone is welcome to grovel to the hypothesis of their choice. I find that incomprehensible, but not objectionable. If they want others to grovel with them, that is objectionable. If they want to impose the dictates of their hypothesis on others, that is both objectionable and illegal. Trying to characterize our current conflict as a religious war is not illegal, but for people in government it’s not terribly bright, particularly in light of the fact that the leaders of the administration are bending over backwards, forwards, and sideways, with good reason, to avoid creating that impression.
The mere fact that you disagree with and do not care to adhere to a specific moral position does not make it wrong.
The problem is not that I don’t care to adhere to it, the problem is that the people who preach it don’t care to adhere to it.
America is a religious based society. "In God We Trust" is a national motto. We are not about to apologize for that to anyone.
America’s progress has been based on free inquiry, free thought, and a willingness to question traditional assumptions and to set aside outmoded constructs. I hope we aren’t about to apologize for those things either, or to abandon them.
I see the great conflict of the last hundred years or so as one of free inquiry against absolutist thought. We've fought fascism, communism, and fundamentalist Islam. I have an unsettling suspicion that fundamentalist Christianity will have its turn at trying to take control as well. They will have to be resisted as well. |
