Those damned atheists want to destroy everything...even Christmas

“(I) Wasn’t exactly happy about the Christmas Parade this year, I spent many years teaching my children to love and respect other people and to love the fact that they were children of God and I don’t feel that they should be influenced in any other way especially not at a Christmas parade,” said Tina Corgey, who is a lifelong Bryan resident. Corgey brings her three kids to the B/CS Christmas Parade every year. She said she was disgusted by what she saw on Sunday…. “If you have younger children they weren’t going to understand but I have older children, a teenager, 8-year-old and they were curious and they asked questions and it was hard for them to believe and understand that there are actually people out there that don’t believe in God,” Corgey said.

There are few things I find more humorous than Christians threatened by the mere existence of atheists. If merely being exposed to people who don’t believe in God is enough to rock your world, methinks there may bigger issues in play for you. Perhaps you might want to examine your own evidently shaky faith to determine why you feel threatened. After all, atheism is just a belief system, like Christianity. Atheists just happen to believe that God is an artificial, nonexistent construct which allows believers to evade taking personal responsibility for their lives. Atheists don’t judge (well, most of us don’t..which is more than can be often said for Christians), and we’re certainly not threatened by the presence and proximity of Christians. So what is it that has Ms. Corgey’s panties in a wad?

Ms. Corgey claims to have taught her children “to love and respect other people,” yet she’s upset by the presence of an atheist marching band in a holiday parade. If she were truthful, she’d admit to teaching her children “to love and respect other people”…as long as they’re Christians who share the same beliefs. If she could stop lying to herself and her children, she’d admit that she doesn’t like atheists, and she certainly doesn’t want her children exposed to them. Heaven forbid that her children should learn to think for themselves and make their own decisions when it comes to their spiritual beliefs, right? Because if you expose them to other ways of thinking, they might learn to think critically. Then, before you know it, they’ll want to turn gay, move to California, and smoke weed all day long while praying to Charles Manson. Yes, far better to only teach them the One, True Faith so as to leave they’re minds uncluttered.

OMG…there were actually people in the holiday parade who “don’t believe in God”?? In Texas?? Isn’t that against the law or something?? Oh, the humanity!! What’s next? Ritual sacrifices? Voodoo chants? Where will this assault on our dignity and religious beliefs end?? “[I]t was hard for them to believe and understand that there are actually people out there that don’t believe in God”…which seems like nothing if not a teachable moment. Then again, teaching your children that there are other beliefs systems besides Christianity means that…GASP!!…they might just decide that one of those systems makes more sense to them and is more applicable to their life. All in all, a pretty horrific prospect, no?

If Ms. Corgey were truly raising her offspring as “children of God,” she’d be teaching them things like charity, understanding, and tolerance…you know, the sorts of things that Jesus Christ, whom she professes to worship, allegedly taught. It’s right there in the Gospels; I know this because I attended Sunday Schools for several years and much of that stuff is still lodged in the dark recesses of my brain. Unfortunately, it appears Ms. Corgey is just another self-righteous hypocrite who talks the Christian talk but isn’t so good at walking the walk. She professes to teach her children “to love and respect people,” which means that a) she doesn’t consider those of us who don’t believe in God to be people, or b) she’s just a hypocrite who calls herself a Christian even as she has no idea what it means to be one.

By the way, we’re talking about an atheist marching band, not a bunch of zealots running around preach and throwing tracts at people. They merely wanted to have fun and celebrate the holiday season with their community. It’s not as if they were sprinting through the crowd tossing copies of The Collected Works of Saul Alinsky or The Homosexual Agenda to children. I wonder; does Ms. Corgey believe atheists shouldn’t be allowed in public, or that the marching band shouldn’t have been allowed to identify themselves as atheist?

Because it’s all about the poor, impressionable snowflakes, don’tchaknow??