National Day of Prayer

Well, today is the day where Church/State Separation gets tossed to the curb and people get to have government-sanctioned, unconstitutional Bible Studies and Prayer. Now, those NDP events that are held in churches or other non-government buildings, are just fine. Pray all you freaking want. But the scary part of the NDP is that they are often held in Capitol Buildings, City Halls, and schools. There NDP organizers offer "School kits" and encourage you to "Adopt-A-Leader" (State Representatives) and to "choose a leader God lays on your heart". http://www.ndptf.org/schools/

Shall we be reminded of the Establishment Clause?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

The free exercise means that you can hold your NDP events anywhere you want, except for government buildings, as that would be respecting an establishment of religion, especially one over the others.

Here is a list of events happening here in Texas:
http://www.ndptf.org/custom/events/eventSearch/index.cfm?blnCoordinator=0&action=search&state=TX including an all-day Prayer and Bible Study in the Capitol Building in Austin.

Ugh.

On the other side of the spectrum is the National Day of Reason
http://www.nationaldayofreason.org/index.html

Here in Texas, the Atheist Community of Austin is holding a counter-rally at the Capitol Building: http://www.atheist-community.org/news/news.php?id=86

Non-theists are using this day to promote Atheist Blood Drives: http://www.atheistvolunteers.org/node/20

"'While religious people are on their knees, we atheists will be on our feet, giving a part of ourselves for the benefit of humanity,' says Kenneth Bronstein, founder of the Center For Atheism."

If you are able to, please donate blood today. Wear your Atheist shirts, buttons, and pride. Let them know who you are and why you are there.

VA Tech Shooter Psychic?

Apparently, the Virginia Tech shooter was a terrorist out to attack xtians and jews:

http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/1913

"The shooter (Cho) was quoting verses from the Koran and had Ishmael written on his arm and as his return address on the package sent to NBC. It appears that he did not randomly pick his targets but rather chose classes that had high concentrations of Christians and Jews in them-he was targeting Christians and Jews!!!!!"

So this guy was not only crazy, but psychic?! He just knew what students were theists and specifically targeted them. That is absurd. Being that over 80% of the U.S. population believe in god, it would not be unreasonable that most of the victims of the shootings would be believers. It's called math, not persecution. This tragedy is horrible in it's own right, there is no need to twist it into some agenda.

Not to mention that Liviu Librescu, the professor who was killed while attempting to block the door and save his students, was a secular jew. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704200365apr21,1,4739235.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

I guess the shooter's "god-dar" was off on that one! I wonder if Cho Seung Hui would have needlessly killed so many people and then offed himself if he knew about JREF's $1 Million Challenge: http://www.randi.org/research/index.html?? With his uncanny ability to seek out theists, he would have been a shoe-in for the cash.