If God is a Fairy tail why do so many of the Godless become so threatened by him?

Question

They want the word God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and off of our money. If you don't believe in God what's the difference if he mentioned or not?

Answer 1

They aren't. They are threatened by God's followers trying to deny their rights (including the non-believers' right to life) and request favoritism.

With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed tens of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped out tens of millions in Europe. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.

See what I mean?

Answer 2

I don't feel threatened by him. He doesn't exist. Why would I be threatened by something that doesn't exist. I am repulsed at peoples belief in such fairy tales and it frightens and embarrasses me that this it what people think. I don't care if it's in the pledge of allegiance because I don't say the pledge of allegiance. I think it's fascist. We are the only country who makes our people pledge an allegiance to their nation. *** that. However, there are those who do want to pledge their allegiance to this wonderful country but don't believe in god, and since our constitution says that church and state is separate, well I guess they feel that if they are pledging allegiance to something it might as well make sense and at least follow the rules. Kind of doesn't mak sense to have a pledge to America break the rules of America does it.

Answer 3

....and there is separation of church and state and the rights of those who worship other gods, twigs, and whatever other Deity or entity they pray to. Keep in mind a myth is what the other guy believes in. As ridiculous as the belief that Muhammad flew around in a winged horse may sound to you, the "miracle of turning water to wine" and walking on water etc sounds just as silly to someone else. One who is an atheist is no more "godless" than one who is religious is "godful", you can't be full of what isn't there. Adrenalin only takes you so far.

Answer 4

It isn't about being "threatened". You can't be threatened by that which does not exist. "God" should come *back* out of the Pledge and off the money because America was not founded to be a Christian nation.

Answer 5

Well, personally I don't care one way or the other because god is a broad term and it doesn't say whose god. I don't think those who want the word god out of the pledge or off the money are threatened by the Christian *God* per se, but rather they're concerned this country will become a theocracy and freedom of religion (all religion - including the freedom to have no religion if you don't want one) will no longer exist.

Answer 6

I could care less, personally...I don't care about any of it...Leave the 10 commandments everywhere if it convinces people to behave themselves, and if it makes you feel better, then feel free to "God Bless" everything your little fingers can reach. I don't care if the word god is in the pledge of allegiance any more than the word flag, country, the, or I. It don't matter none to me. In the imortal words of C.S. Lewis, "Dwarves is for Dwarves."

Answer 7

its not a matter of personal feelings of threat, people who want "god" removed from public property fall into three categories

1/ people who are atheists.
(like myself) we often belive that peticular religios beliefs should not be flaunted to at minds of the young children, or any givin person that is heavily influenced by others belifes. we dont think
public property (and the pledge) should unfairly influence the beliefs of children because they are not mature enough to differenciate thier philisophical beliefs. to sum it up, we just want a nuetral field.

2\ peopple of other religions
not all people belive in "god" as in typical abrehamic religions.
some they, more than atheists usually, dont want thier children , or themselves , expossed to it on a regularly basis.

3\ people who do belive in god but....
...think that is just unfair to display it so promptly becuase they either have empathy for people of other religions, and dont feel that it is nesseccary to display it everywhere because people that belive in god shouldnt need it to be shown everywhere.

Answer 8

I don't care if they put Frosty the Snowman on the money, as long as I have plenty. But the Pledge of Allegiance is for ALL Americans, not just the brainwashed, delusional ones. I am in NO way afraid of their "god" they made up.

Answer 9

It is the fact that people preach it down your throat in a number of ways. I've talked with so many people that Jesus is the only way and become lost and not see the reality that is around them.

Answer 10

We might ask you if your faith is so weak that you feel threatened by Satan? If not, then you wouldn't mind if we put "under Satan" in the Pledge to replace "under god".

Frankly I don't feel threatened by either one and I agree that there are more important things for atheists to fight for. When I say the Pledge, I leave out "under god". I only feel threatened when cultists want to enact their beliefs as laws which I must follow. This applies to Christian cults, Jewish cults, Muslim cults, Hindu cults, any religious cult.