Thanks for the Useless Umbrage
A follow-up from my post last night concerning my feelings about the Elizabeth Dole “Godless” ad:
Oh, thank goodness! People are condemning this ad! Fantastic! Happy joy!
Except it’s all bullshit.
As I mentioned in my previous post, yes, it’s wrong for Dole to misrepresent or make false implications about Kay Hagan’s religion. But I have seen no one complain that this ad classifies all atheists as pariahs, unfit for association with respectable people. Oh, sure, Campbell Brown does one of her psuedo-editorials condemning the ad for attacking Hagan’s faith, but not a single word about the fact that Dole is also attacking a benign, law-abiding, rational minority for no reason. Seems that no one may question anyone else’s religious beliefs, as long as they have some.
The umbrage people are taking over the “nastiness” or the “tone” of the ad — while ignoring the vulgar insult to atheists — is worthless to me. It takes no courage to defend Kay Hagan’s Christianity.
Will no one stand up to say that atheists are not second-class citizens?
State Senator Hagan? Senator Schumer? Senator Obama? I’ll be right here when you want to pipe up.
And I’ll be standing next to you! (well, ok…actually some distance away. It’s a metaphor and all. *grin*) Heaven forbid (LOL) they actually condemn (or even, for that matter, notice) the larger insult.
I am thinking you will need a passionate prominent atheist to make this point. And I am not sure you will find many prominent people who are passionate about their atheism, at least not someone who would be excited about it.
It’s like when Obama is criticized for being a “muslim” or when we criticize people for saying homosexuality is a choice…
“Not that there’s any problem with that”