As a Christian I know that this is how society will end up, so I'm not surprised in the least. The persecution of Christians is right around the corner.

There is a reason that the Book of Revelation says that at the "rapture", when all the faithful are snatch away before the tribulation, there will only be 144,000 of them. These are the faithful who refuse to capitulate and be marked by "the beast" and are persecuted because of their faith.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

I think the press does say some disparaging things about atheists and their beliefs, they just list it under the heading of "Right-Wing Militants."

Atheists argue that the existence of God cannot be proved and that it isn't necessary to believe in God to be moral.

  That's a really uninformed statement.  God is not an object.  God is not 'somewhere'.  I assume most persons on this site love at least one person.  Where is that love at?  Show me the actual 'love' and not a symbolic gesture.  To say that God doesn't exist because there is no proof then by that same logical analysis we can say that you 'love' no one because you are asking me to 'believe' something not provable.

Atheists get a pass from the media because we are a minority. It is the same reason why it is considered more acceptable to pick on Christianity in this country than on other religions-- you're the majority, so you get the scrutiny. Same reason why it is socially acceptable to satirize christianity and not other religions. When you come down to it, humor at our own expense is funny, at another's expense is mean. Since christianity is part of our predominant culture, we make fun of ourselves by poking at the religion.

Enjoy the fact that your beliefs are culturally acceptable, in many circles mine are not. I listened to some talk radio jackass once tell me that atheists were worthless human beings who could not contribute anything positive to society. So what? I say man up and let the little things go :)

Basically, the atheist’s end game is clear: a Hobbesian centralized world society in which life is cheap, mean, brutish, and short. When you have a culture in which a privileged elite demands the obeisance of a majority people who refuse to obey said elite, there is only one result. The culture war now years in progress in America is only a pale foreshadowing of the struggle to come. It is inevitable.  

Irony of all ironies, the elite (liberals, atheists, internationalists) are convinced that their ideas are "progressive," and they believe they have the power to steamroll the majority, as did the Romanoffs, Batista, etc., etc., etc.  

If they are correct in their assumption, we already see the leading indicators: races (Hispanic and Black) pitted against each other for material gain of the elite; an end of sovereignty (the end of borders, language, and culture—that foundation of all societies); hate-filled political dialogue; class envy and ridicule; and most important of all, the end of Objectivism--no truth, no religion—a morally relative world where evil is good (a debased society such as America’s--a de facto atheist society), and good is evil (witness the atheist's opinion of family, religious, and traditional values). Atheism and religious values cannot co-exist, so the atheists are efforting to kill religion. Once objective religious values are removed, societal values are as pliable as the outcome of a crooked horse race. 

The atheists have succeeded in Europe where religion is practically a non-factor and societal confidence is at an all-time low. A Soviet-style atheist gloom oppresses Europe—with their declining birth rates, etc.—and they barely stir as their continent is taken over by Muslims, which may be a good thing after all is said and done. As a matter of fact, the only two societies resisting worldwide atheism are Islamic and evangelical. That is why we are making war on one, and daily demeaning the other. 

Religion saved us from our Hobbesian existence once , but we have forgotten. We may have to learn the value of Objectivism once more, but the costs will be terrible—much, much worse than the 20th century.

Basically, the atheist’s end game is clear: a Hobbesian centralized world society in which life is cheap, mean, brutish, and short. When you have a culture in which a privileged elite demands the obeisance of a majority people who refuse to obey said elite, there is only one result. The culture war now years in progress in America is only a pale foreshadowing of the struggle to come. It is inevitable.  

Irony of all ironies, the elite (liberals, atheists, internationalists) are convinced that their ideas are "progressive," and they believe they have the power to steamroll the majority, as did the Romanoffs, Batista, etc., etc., etc.  

If they are correct in their assumption, we already see the leading indicators: races (Hispanic and Black) pitted against each other for material gain of the elite; an end of sovereignty (the end of borders, language, and culture—that foundation of all societies); hate-filled political dialogue; class envy and ridicule; and most important of all, the end of Objectivism--no truth, no religion—a morally relative world where evil is good (a debased society such as America’s--a de facto atheist society), and good is evil (witness the atheist's opinion of family, religious, and traditional values). Atheism and religious values cannot co-exist, so the atheists are efforting to kill religion. Once objective religious values are removed, societal values are as pliable as the outcome of a crooked horse race. 

The atheists have succeeded in Europe where religion is practically a non-factor and societal confidence is at an all-time low. A Soviet-style atheist gloom oppresses Europe—with their declining birth rates, etc.—and they barely stir as their continent is taken over by Muslims, which may be a good thing after all is said and done. As a matter of fact, the only two societies resisting worldwide atheism are Islamic and evangelical. That is why we are making war on one, and daily demeaning the other. 

Religion saved us from our Hobbesian existence once , but we have forgotten. We may have to learn the value of Objectivism once more, but the costs will be terrible—much, much worse than the 20th century.