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Okay, let's see if I understand this correctly. Atheists don't believe in God. Atheists think people of faith are stupid. Atheists hold rationality and reason as the highest ideals, and rely on science to define Everything That There Is And Ever Shall Be. They hold no regard for anything supernatural or miraculous.
So why are they doing something so stupid, irrational and unreasonable as this? Do they really believe that holding an International Blasphemy Day is going to change any believers' minds? Or make them appear uber-intelligent to anyone other than their own minions?
From Catholic Online: 'Blasphemy Day Targets Christianity'
NEW YORK, NY (Catholic League) - The Center for Inquiry will launch the first International Blasphemy Day on September 30, the anniversary of the 2005 publication of the Danish cartoons that so inflamed Muslims worldwide.
Billed as a free speech event designed to oppose such things as a Muslim-sponsored U.N. resolution banning criticism of religion, the day has drawn the support of people like PZ Myers.
Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota known for intentionally desecrating a consecrated Host (I blogged about him here), says the day was established to “mock and insult religion without fear of murder, violence, and reprisal”; he wants every day to be Blasphemy Day.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue spoke to this event today:
"The Center for Inquiry is factually incorrect to say that “Free speech is the foundation on which other liberties rest.”
"Freedom of conscience is the first liberty, and it is inextricably linked to freedom of religion. Moreover, the whole concept of inalienable rights presupposes a belief in the Creator.
"In other words, atheists have the right to mock religion because our Christian Founding Fathers afforded them human rights.
"They are all such phonies. The stated purpose of Blasphemy Day has nothing to do with any religion but Islam, yet there is not one scheduled event insulting Muslims. We can only guess why. So who have they chosen to mock? You guessed it—Christians.
"Artist Dana Ellyn will wander to Washington, D.C. to show her masterpiece, “Jesus Does His Nails,” a portrait of Jesus polishing a nail jammed into his hand.
"In Los Angeles, there will be a film about a gay molesting priest and another about a boy who is so angry about being sent to bed that he asks God to kill his parents. Oh, yes, American Atheists will conduct “De-Baptisms” in New Jersey.
"Nice to know that even the atheists know that Christians can be counted on to react to their antics like good Christians. Which is why there will be no violence."
So how rational and reasonable is this then? They're commemorating a day when a Muslim cartoon was censored...by insulting Christians? They don't seem all that bright to me. These folks aren't willing to be persecuted for their own beliefs, but they are more than willing to insult and impugn others. What are they so afraid of?
I suggest declaring September 30 as "Forgive Them, Father, They Know Not What They Do" Day. Offer Masses, say rosaries, recite Divine Mercy chaplets, offer reparation for sin - that'd be the best Catholic response. Kinda like being anti-blasphemers. And who knows? Maybe some of the atheists will come to know Christ and convert. It's been known to happen.
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