TheLastManInAmerica

Get a life! Michael Newdow, you and your plaintiffs are making all of us look like whiny little children. You’re lawsuit to have “so help me god” taken out of the inaugaration and your objection to Rick Warren delivering the invocation speech are petty and seem to ignore the fact that all of our presidents have been christian.
You want these words taken out, right? To make you feel better? But what about those Christian presidents that this pledge actually means something to? You and your plaintiffs complain that you will feel ostracized if you are forced to watch an inaugaration with religious components, so you’d rather force these religious people to do without swearing their oath to their god?
And it was Barack Obama’s choice to have Rick Warren speak at his inaugaration, what say do you have in the matter? Obama is a religious man and wants another to speak at this occasion for him, you might not agree with it but that’s the cost of freedom, people will do things that you don’t like.
Atheists like to think that religious people are always forcing their beliefs on them. Sometimes they are, no doubt, but we need to pick our battles, not just start kicking and screaming every time someone says, “God bless you,” when we sneeze. Our presidents have been, and probably will be for a long time, invaribly religious. It is their choice to say these things and have these people speak; if they were atheist, I’m sure they would object to repeating that line that so offends you. If we try to take that away from them then we’re no better the zealots who condemn us for our beliefs

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