Nebraska Capitol to Have Atheist Display Instead of Nativity for Christmas

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The table display and posters that the group Lincoln Atheists plans to erect at the Nebraska Capitol Rotunda during the week of December 19-26, 2015.
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Secular organizations will place a group of displays at the Nebraska capitol that will remain up on Christmas day, effectively muscling out a nativity scene.
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Dubbed the “Reason This Season”, the displays come courtesy a coalition of groups that include Lincoln Atheists, Omaha Atheists, Omaha Coalition of Reason, and UNO Council for Humanist Thought.
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Read more at christianpost.com/news/nebraska-capitol-atheist-display-nativity-christmas-152591/#lDxGRdJqMJhpoF4s.99
 
Hopefully these people repent before they get what they seem to want, an existence without God, eternally.
 
And yet these people, unless doctors, nurses, police officers or firefighters or employees at walgreens…they get the DAY OFF on DECEMBER 25.

:rolleyes:
 
I don’t understand: the current “accepted judicial wisdom” is that a religious display on public property is an unconstitutional “endorsement of religion.” So why isn’t an atheist display on public property considered an unconstitutional “un-endorsement / criticism” of religion? Of course, we all know the real answer. I would have expected something like this here in far-left religion-hating Massachusetts . . . but Nebraska?
 
Pax Christi.

Maybe we can let them put up a display on Stalin’s birthday.

God save us.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
I don’t understand: the current “accepted judicial wisdom” is that a religious display on public property is an unconstitutional “endorsement of religion.” So why isn’t an atheist display on public property considered an unconstitutional “un-endorsement / criticism” of religion? Of course, we all know the real answer. I would have expected something like this here in far-left religion-hating Massachusetts . . . but Nebraska?
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You forget that Nebraska was once the mostly full time home of a notorious late term abortion provider - Leroy Carhart…until he set up shop mostly full time in Maryland.

Yes, there are atheists in Nebraska…and I would bet that some of them are the jerks who try to disrupt the pro life walk in January in Lincoln.
 
Since the only reasonable conclusion of athiesm is moral nihilism, they should be fought at every instance for the abominations they bring to society.

peace
steve
 
ProdglArchitect said:
Hopefully these people repent before they get what they seem to want, an existence without God, eternally.
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If they don’t want God, that is their choice. They do have free will, and the door to heaven remains open until we depart this life.
 
As atheistic secularism is in fact a religion of self , this is very hypocritical.
 
“When religious groups are able to use public spaces to spread their message, we decided that we too should use that public space to spread our message.”
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Their message generally seems to be we want to annoy people and poke them in the eye, especially around holidays. Locally we have an atheist billboard put up for Christmas. These are no doubt the same atheists who ridicule the church for not spending all of its money on the poor. While claiming to be more reasonable I find that is almost never true.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
I don’t see your point here. What does Stalin have to do with anything?
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Pax Christi!

I’m just trying to honor a great atheist. When atheists claim that religion has been horrible in history, I wonder what atheist governments/societies they admire.

God bless.
 
svid2 said:
I’m just trying to honor a great atheist. When atheists claim that religion has been horrible in history, I wonder what atheist governments/societies they admire.
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Hmmm. A couple of points, taken only from the article, since that is the only source I have read. One is that the group sponsoring the display is a coalition which includes atheists as well as humanists. It seems a wide range of interests and philosophies.

When you refer to atheists claiming that religions have been horrible in history (which is actually quite accurate), that is not a point this coalition is trying to make. Neither are they looking to governments or societies to proclaim.

The second thing is this group does want to make a point that there should be opportunity for all viewpoints to be represented, not only one, and that church and state should continue to be separate. Reasonable.

I know they are using Christmas to make their point, and it is getting their voice heard. It doesn’t help, however, to speak of Stalin or what/who they supposedly admire. It shouldn’t be an ‘us vs them’ conflict.

All that being said, nativities are lovely and I hope that next year the Thomas More Society gets the paperwork done in time to have one.
 
I have to wonder, though, if their ultimate goal isn’t to bother people enough that the rules will be changed and no religious displays will be allowed.
 
Peter_J said:
I have to wonder, though, if their ultimate goal isn’t to bother people enough that the rules will be changed and no religious displays will be allowed.
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Possibly. And then it begs the question: whose religion?
 
Peter_J said:
I have to wonder, though, if their ultimate goal isn’t to bother people enough that the rules will be changed and no religious displays will be allowed.
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The problem with these types is that they are agitators - agitating for no particular practical reason than to essentially snub the local community.

Having had to deal with this sort in conversation (and trust me, if I could avoid it I would, but academic commitments and all that), I’d actually be surprised if they thought that far ahead.

As i’ve often remarked, there’s a strange (to me at least)…let’s call it an “emotional element” vis-a-vis their position and relationship with your religious sphere so to speak.

Don’t get me wrong of course, I can understand the grievances felt by these folks - in the sense that i’m sure life in Kansas is a bit different from say Chicago or New York where being an atheist is generally greeted with a “Meh…”

However, their choice of expression seems rather…unproductive.

I’ve always wanted to see a study done on what exactly are the social costs for “coming out” as one in places that generally lack a cosmopolitan element. I imagine they must be pretty high, especially in places where religious affiliation overlaps with ethnicity…
 
ComplineSanFran said:
I know they are using Christmas to make their point, and it is getting their voice heard. It doesn’t help, however, to speak of Stalin or what/who they supposedly admire. It shouldn’t be an ‘us vs them’ conflict.
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But it will be…because there’s enough in each “camp” if you will, who actually want to sharpen their blades, misrepresent each others view, and argue until they are blue in the face about things.

Its on those days my faith in humanity tends to drop like a rock. 😛

If i may offer a small critique of “my side” if you will though -

as a person who has devoted his personal and professional life to teaching science and the utilization of Empiricism as the guiding principle…i find it so odd that my own “fellows” make recourse to a number of apriori statements about religious people…

…Whatever happened to you know… Observation… Judging a Person by the Content of their Actions…you know… EMPIRICISM…

But i guess it can’t be helped, regardless if one is religious or not, the need to “reify” an abstract concept like a “Christian” or an “atheist” instead of actually addressing the Individual is too strong.

And what both groups do to fill those abstractions, it almost a golden rule in my mind at this point.

When its something bad, it must be an aberration to my religion/philosophical belief/etc. When it something is good, it must be indicative.

Of course, the ironic thing is they only judge each other on the aberration they come across. There must be some sort of mental filtering process…

This very board is proof of that - whether its an inter-religious dispute or otherwise.
 
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