It's official. Ellen Johnson will speak here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth
area when she comes into town. It's open to the general public, so
feel free to distribute this info.
When: 12/04 (Saturday) from 4 pm to 6 pm
Where: Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott
8440 Freeport Parkway Irving, TX 75063
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/dfwap
Grand Prairie meeting room
Topic: She'll be speaking about Madalyn Murray O'Hair and what today's American
Atheists are doing
Questions: Direct them to Shelly Hattan ([email protected])
We'll go out to eat at a local restaurant after the meeting.
President of American Atheists to speak in Dallas / Fort Worth
by Elsewhere 10 Replies latest jw friends
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Elsewhere
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Swan
Isn't Dallas/Ft. Worth where the O'Hares were murdered? I believe it was in Texas somewhere, and I seem to remember it being Dallas.
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Satanus
and what today's American Atheists are doing
What do atheists do? Drink beer, watch tv, tell jokes?? Just kidding. W the present american regime, atheists got their hands full. Hopefully they won't need to hide fromwitchatheist hunts. Umm, just kidding again. It's the wine, you know. It has deeminz in itS
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MegaDude
From the article linked below. Fascinating article about the life and murder of Madalyn O'Hare.
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But in 1980, on Mother?s Day, there came a horrible blow -- her oldest boy Bill "came out" as a Christian. And not a nominal, go-to-church-at-Easter Christian, either, but a foursquare, evangelical, come-to-Jesus, pass-the-plate, full-gospel Baptist. As a child, he wanted what all children want, his mother?s love and approval. As an adult, battling an alcohol and drug problem, he realized that Madalyn was unfortunately one of those people who couldn?t even conceive of her children as separate human beings in their own right. Her children were merely extensions of her ego, and her regard for him, or for anyone, depended on how completely they obeyed her every command.
For years, Madalyn had referred to Bill as the reason she picked up the cudgels to banish prayer from the schoolroom. She wrote heart-rending articles about how the other kids beat Bill up at school and ostracized him because of his beliefs. But looking back, Bill Murray felt that when he stood there on the Supreme Court steps, he was just being used as a prop in his mother?s battles against everything she hated in bourgeois America. It took all of his pent-up anger to wrench himself free of her orbit and having done so, all communication between them ceased. His prediction that his mother would sever all ties with him was abundantly fulfilled -- O?Hair cast him into the void with this cutting remark: "One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times...He is beyond human forgiveness." This denouncement demonstrated how she almost viewed herself as the god of her own universe; it was her prerogative to grant her children absolution, or even life itself.
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Swan
I'm an athiest, but not a very good one. Sometimes when I'm surprised I'll cry, "Oh my God!"
But otherwise I find not believing in God is actually very comforting.
Tammy
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Euphemism
MegaDude... I don't know whether that story is true or not, but it seems plausible. IMHO, fanaticism is just as possible for an atheist as for a proponent of any other belief system. And I say that as an atheist myself.
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FairMind
Although I am not an athiest i believe in fair play for everyone. Therefore, may God be with them and bless their efforts.
FM
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Elsewhere
Although I am not an athiest i believe in fair play for everyone. Therefore, may God be with them and bless their efforts.
Boooo! Sssssss!!!
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gumby
If Jehovah was for real.....he'd come to Dallas and send fire down on all these Korah-like bastards!
Gumby
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frankiespeakin
Atheist is just a label that once you put it on starts directing how you look at the world. Wearing this label cramps thinking and dulls the mind. And the same with the label creationist,, agnostic on the other hand,,as far as labels go,, leaves the mind more open and seems to be the least harmless of the 3.
In that sense I think atheisem is more like religion in that it dulls the mind,, depending on how far you take it. "American Atheist" label if accurate about the indiviual produces a dull mind if you wear it and beleive it.