Faux News Strikes Again

Oye.

I don't really mean for all my posts to be about religion.  It's just that all the things that piss me off lately seem to be going that route.  And Fox News (a regular ShortBus customer) provided me with another headscratcher this week.

This YouTube clip comes from a channel I subscribe to called Secular Talk.  The guy providing the commentary is Kyle Kulinski.  I won't go on forever, because he sums up most of what I felt when I saw this.

But the gist of it is, Madison, Wisconsin has become the first place in the country to pass legislation that specifically lists athiests as a group that can't by systematically discriminated against.  Yay!  About time, as far as I'm concerned.  In a country that provides freedom of religion, I think freedom FROM religion should be in that mix as well.

Well, needless to say, the brainless twits at the Republic of Fox don't see it that way.

Oh my nonexistent god.

OK, first, notice that the last thing the vapid blonde says before throwing it to the "expert" is asking why athiests are hostile towards Christians.  Please -- make me laugh and puke at the same time with THAT one. 

Hostility?  Really?  When was the last time you saw a news clip of an atheist walking into a church on a Sunday and interrupting a sermon and announcing to the congregation, "Hey,you know this is all bullshit, right?"  It doesn't happen!!  That's kind of the defining characteristic of an atheist -- we don't give a shit about what happens in a church.  If we did, we'd GO to one.

But we should be able to walk around the city streets of (insert hometown --HERE--) and not have people assume we're just evildoers with absolutely no moral compass simply because we don't believe in someone else's fairy tales.  Yet I've heard plenty of Christians insist that is the case.

And in typical Fox News fashion, they manage to piss down their own legs about how Christianity is under attack, and announce that Christians are, in fact, NOT out to get athiests.  And then... he says that Christians and Jews might have all kinds of reasons to not want to hire one.  In fact, it says in the Bible that athiests should be spurned and avoided.

Really?  Does no one at that pathetic excuse of an attempt to portray themselves as news even attempt to listen to the stuff they say before they air it?

The majority religion of this country has a passage in its holy book saying it's ok to shun non-believers -- a passage he WILLINGLY points out -- but in their minds, it's the other way around.  It's the same way they only recognize reverse racism, because real racism is dead. 

But on the hostility part...  believe it or not, not everything an atheist does is about persecuting you.  Not everything is about being "hostile" to you.  We don't believe what you do -- that's fine.  This is a free society.   You've got yours; we've got ours; we can co-exist.  But no one -- no one -- is trying to PREVENT you from having your religion.  We're just asking for a little understanding in return. 

No one goes around preaching Athiest Doctrine -- as Bill Maher once put it, that's the great thing about being an atheist:  It takes up so little of your time.