{"id":127596,"date":"2022-07-09T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127596"},"modified":"2022-07-09T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T15:51:15","slug":"columnist-calls-for-atheist-backlash-in-response-to-scotus-rulings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127596","title":{"rendered":"Columnist calls for Atheist backlash in response to SCOTUS rulings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kate Cohen, Washington Post columnist, said that America needs to embrace atheism. She insisted that with the overturning of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court will not protect Americans from those who argue that God gets to set the laws for everyone. To address this issue, Cohen argued that people should push back against the “Religious Right”. They could do this as atheists.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

After quickly floating and scrapping the idea that we can use “another Certified Religious Group to fight back” against the Christian right. She proposed atheism, “We shouldn’t have to use one God to fight another God. We shouldn’t have to be religious to be free. What we need — and what our Constitution conveniently provides for — is freedom from all gods.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “So how do we get there, living, as we do, in an unusually religious nation? Maybe the atheists can help. According to a recent Gallup poll, we’re already getting closer: Only 81 percent of Americans say they believe in God — a new low. It was 87 percent just five years ago,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Motivated by this stat, she exclaimed, “Backlash! Great idea! Atheists: Let’s lash back against Christian nationalism — and quick.” To encourage potential or discerning atheists, Cohen wrote, “Whether you come to nonbelief from disgust with organized religion, knowledge of evolutionary biology or because the whole thing just seems made up. Ask yourself: Do I believe there’s a Supreme Being in charge of the universe? No? Done.”<\/p>\n

“Now on to our backlash,” Cohen proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Mocking conservatives who she claimed, “work up a good backlash using bogeymen and lies,” she stated, “for our backlash, we don’t need to make anything up. To demonstrate the looming threat of theocracy, we can (as atheists tend to do) stick to the evidence: actual laws passed, platforms approved, and rulings handed down.”<\/p>\n

Cohen then warned that “Legislators around the country are passing laws that will force women to bear children they don’t want because, in Gov. Greg Abbott’s words, ‘Our Creator endowed us with the right to life.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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