She's at It Again
Ellen Johnson, president of the American Atheists, is up to her old tricks again. This is the same woman who had such harsh things to say after Hurricane Katrina. President Bush asked the country to pray for the victims and survivors and she said that was “unconstitutional,” because it forced a specific religion down the throats of Americans.
Now she and her organization are working on Capitol Hill. They have hired a lobbyist and are trying to make sure that no bill with funding or aid for faith-based initiatives gets passed in Washington. Last night, in a television interview, she also said that atheists were wanting to be included among groups who are hired via quotas. Many large companies try to hire employees based upon the percentages of the population living in the area. For example, if half the residents of an area are Caucasian, 30% are African-American and 20% are Hispanic, then many companies will try to hire based upon that percentage (at least, roughly).
Ellen Johnson wants the same to be done for atheists. Of course, to make that significant, they claim that 10% of Americans are atheists, which translates to over 25million people. There are many problems with her idea, but one is simply this: how does a company discover how many atheists live in their community? Do they go door-to-door conducting a religious survey of some sort? Mrs. Johnson also says that this is needed so that atheists can express their views in the workplace without the fear of being fired or not hired in the first place.
It seems to me that another group of people got a lot of political control and control of society in a completely different way. They did not seek quotas or send lobbyists to their capital city. They were abused, tortured, fired, imprisoned and even killed, but it did not stop their work. They simply continued forward. If fact, within a short time, it was said that their message had been delivered to the whole world, and it was done so without political help.
Those people were Christians. And Ellen Johnson and those of her ilk need to remember that it is a Christian government that gives her the right to say the things she says.
