This is just pure insanity, and coming from a "Christian?"
08/29/2011
By Brian Simmons
Would it be right to have atheists register online who they are, where they work, and where they reside like the "National Registry" is for sex-offenders? An article posted this morning by PZ Meyers articulates that Pastor Mike from Florida is making a push for a "National Registry" for atheists in order to let people, mainly Christians, know where these people reside and work in order to witness to these "lost souls" and to boycott their businesses so to not "feed" Satan. Arlington, Texas has over 300,000 residents, but is it right for people to know those that are atheist where they live and work?
Pastor Mike equates atheists to sex-offenders, ex-convicts, terrorist cells, KKK, skinheads, radical Islamists, etc. He sees no difference in making atheists apart of these kinds of groups in order for informational purposes for people to know where these atheists are. He explains that the reason to have such a registry is to inform the public for the same purposes that there are registries for sex-offenders and ex-convicts. Yet, he does not see why people might oppose this.
- And I'm sure others can see Pastor Mike as the same he's describing others as. This is NOT what Jesus taught!
The United States First Amendment to the Constitution is set up to protect freedom of speech and religion. By creating such a national registry for a religious practice violates that right. What did these people do other than thinking that there is no God to deserve being treated like ex-cons and sex-offenders? Jesus Christ said to love your neighbor as yourself. How would this registry allow such Christians to live out that commandment? Pastor Mike wants this registry to know who are atheists in order to witness to them and tell other Christians to boycott their businesses. Harassment is not loving people like Christ said to love.
This would breed discrimination and hate in our country more and more. Atheists and Christians are already at odds in the general sense with a few known faces. However, if atheists were to have a national registry, the hate and discrimination would grow, not just between atheists and Christians, but also among various religious groups. If you have the chance, please let Pastor Mike know that this is a violation of Constitutional rights under the First Amendment, and that he needs to reevaluate the commandment to love, not hate.
When I attend a church that has a "preacher" like this spewing hate instead of God's word, that is when I get up, leave and never come back.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower of Jesus Christ, but naming and shaming people goes against what Jesus preached about, and when a "preacher" suggests something like this, it makes you wonder if they actually studied what Jesus taught.
Who is next? A Christian registry so Muslims can find us? Or one for Jews, Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, etc? Hitler had registries! It was wrong then, and it's wrong now!
I do not believe in any registry for anybody, but if it's okay to have an unconstitutional registry for sex offenders, then why not one for all criminals?
http://tinyurl.com/AllCriminalsRegistry
People are trying to turn America into Nazi Germany. I don't know if it's all the meds people are on or what the hell anymore, but this registry madness has to stop!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is clearly the DUMBEST thing I've heard in a very long time!
ReplyDeleteHowever, it's not totally unexpected...
The time may come (just prior to Armaggedon), where everybody from all walks of life will carry some type of classification or label. Then the RFID chips will come back and we will all be known to everybody else...
Anybody ever see the TV series Babylon 5? The story went that telepaths needed to be registered for the privacy of "normals." The result was a militant organization that started to establish itself as a new ruling class...
Granted, this is just science fiction. But nobody can predict the future repercussions of mistakes made now. Except, perhaps, those that learn from history?
I have yet to see a politician that ever studied history. Or, if they did, ever learned anything from it. We could all live a thousand years but we would still be human; making the same mistakes.
Knowledge is only useful these days when it is politically convenient. Assumption is far more lucrative!!
In my opinion, of course...