Stop Bowing To Atheism
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” The statement makes it clear that many fears are baseless and unnecessary. Yet if we let it take hold, it paralyzes us and keeps us from taking the action necessary during a crisis.
Christians and Christianity itself are under attack. There are groups out there like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a wicked leftist group that boldly attacks moral and Christian views under the deluded guise of sparing them from the “burden” of religion.
On their website, they try to justify their existence with a statement so devoid of human emotion it’s shocking.
“The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In modern times, the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women’s right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery. The Foundation works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.”
Someone should tell these self-righteous fools that this country was founded on Christian principles, and not the absence of them. In fact, most of their entire proclamation is beyond bogus rhetoric. To hear them tell it, atheism invented humane treatment, when the exact opposite is true.
Belief in something greater than ourselves is known as faith. Faith differs from hope; one cannot have hope without faith. Groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation are nothing more than self-serving narcissists. In their empty world, all they breed is petty discontent, and they use that lack of belief to attack those who would move the world forward with a moral compass.
A recent example in Oklahoma proves that Christians need not cave just because those who oppose them believe themselves to be intellectually superior.
In August, an Oklahoma school district canceled a back-to-school prayer walk after facing pressure from the dregs of society at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Attorney General Gentner Drummond stated that officials abandoned a gathering they had no constitutional obligation to cancel.
Muskogee’s 6th and 7th Grade Academy scheduled a community event the day before classes began. The atheist organization out of Wisconsin sent its objection on August 11, according to Drummond’s office. District officials canceled the event and removed the announcements.
The event was a prayer walk, meant to prepare these 11-, 12-, and 13-year-olds for the upcoming school year. Yet, some local snowflake felt so emboldened to ruin this act of moral preparation that they notified the sanctimonious group of atheists.
Attorney Sammi Lawrence accused the academy of displaying “blatant favoritism toward religion over nonreligion” by organizing and promoting prayer on campus.
After the cancellation, FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said, “The district made the right choice in canceling this school-sponsored prayer event.”
However, that wasn’t true, as Attorney General Drummond pointed out.
In a letter dated August 21, he said students were not required to attend, faced no consequences for staying away, and would miss no instruction.
“There is no coercion. There is no captive audience. There is no Establishment Clause violation. The district was free to proceed.”
His office then offered districts assistance before they cancel programs in response to outside demands.
FFRF subsequently challenged the interpretation, arguing that voluntary attendance does not address its objection to school-sponsored religious exercises. In a clarification on Oct. 5, Muskogee Public Schools defended the decision to cancel.
“Muskogee Public Schools has not taken a position against prayer or religious expression.”
The district stated that local churches organized a prayer walk last year, but employees advertised this year’s gathering as school-sponsored. Officials emphasized that voluntary individual prayer is still allowed, including student-led See You at the Pole events.
There are several lessons here. First, groups like the FFRF will always enter a situation with bravado that intimidates timid officials, who more often than not have the law on their side. Laws can be interpreted in several ways, and the left is always counting on a liberal interpretation.
Second, stop being intimidated by atheists. They have a void in their lives that they fill with smug intolerance for anyone who doesn’t agree with them. One of the left’s most infuriating traits is their refusal to accept those with different views.
Rather than letting people who believe something different live their lives as they please, they feel they must force their will on everyone. In this case, no one was forced to make the walk, but a small-minded group from Wisconsin stripped away the free will of those who wanted to by intimidating school-district officials.
The third lesson is clear: those in charge need to stop folding like a cheap suit. The radical left is always loud, and they always feel justified. In cases like this, they use Christian’s tolerance against them, but even Christians cannot remain tolerant of the left’s bullying.
Religious freedom is every person’s right. Christians can no longer tolerate being told to sit quietly in the corner. Even when leftist judges rule against them, Christians must defend their beliefs at the top of their lungs; it’s time to stop being shouted down by those who don’t even have the capacity to open their minds to something larger than themselves.
