Those Damn Humanist Braggarts

From UN Affiliated Atheist Group Launches Ad Campaign Targeting God and Christmas:

The national advocacy group In God We Trust today blasted the atheist American Humanist Association for its ad campaign mocking the Christmas holiday and American's who believe in God. The ad campaign asks, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness sake," and will be placed on Washington, DC city buses.

"These ads are a deliberate attack on American traditions, beliefs and customs by a United Nation's affiliated group that espouses a radical anti-American agenda and is funded by a zealot who believes that the U.S. is a backwards nation full of imbeciles," says In God We Trust Chairman Council Nedd.

The American Humanist Association brags on its website that it is an official U.N. Non Governmental Organization (NGO) and works with the U.N.'s Department of Public Information. According to the AHA, its mission is to, "Support and promote the work of the United Nations, actively engage in lobbying for the UN and our own organization's objectives with our national governments . . ."

Does God tell these people to resort to name calling? Or do they think of that particular Christian value all on their own?

"This ad campaign is yet another attempt by America-hating snobs to mock and attack our nation's traditions and culture" says Nedd. "The AHA is not some harmless little atheist group. These people hate America and they are working with our nation's enemies to attack our heritage."

Oh ye of little faith. Oh ye of so much fear.

The Republic Of Heaven

From Editorial by Brian P. Hudson:

It’s this final idea that prompts me to bring The Golden Compass into this otherwise unassuming Nexus editorial. Because, as a writer, I’ve got this sudden bug to imagine what a “republic of heaven” might look like in our own world. By which I mean, a world where religion has faded and fallen--maybe not gone but certainly in the minority--and realism, skepticism, and humanism have taken over. And suddenly, I’ve got a yearning to write about just such a thing.

Now, I’m not naïve enough to think that the world would be a utopia, nor that religion would simply vanish. I just wonder, what would such a world be like? How would our day-to-day existence change? How would governments function differently? Where would our politics fall? What would be the causes of our strife? Would there be war? Would there be peace? What would we do with all the churches? What would we do with each other?

Read the rest here.