Responding to Lies about Atheism
I was on Facebook when I saw a shirt with the words: Dear God, Why do you allow so much violence in our schools? signed, a concerned student. Dear Concerned student, I'm not alowed in schools. God" Since it's complete bullshit without any facts of evidence to prove it, I wrote the following: People pray all the time in school. It just not allowed to have teachers pray out loud in class because that’s clearly favoring one faith over another. And when most of the country are people who believe in God, that’s not true either. Atheists aren’t the ones shooting school, what evidence does the creator of the shirt have to prove this? Oh, and it's pretty petty of a reason not to stop school shootings. When a family member posted this: I commented this: Most people in this country believe in God. I don’t see how one has to do with the other especially since we don’t even know the faith of the latest shooter. We do know that he was in the foster system for a long ...