Organizing an Aetheist event during National Prayer Day can be comparable to those White Supremists who march on Martin Luther King Day, or a Neo-Nazi March in Holocaust Rememberance Day. The scheduiling brings a question as to their motives. It also denotes what kind of people they are.
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Firstly it's atheist (small "a" unless it starts a sentence, and not followed by an "e").
... How in the world are these "Aethists" similar to White Supremists or Neo-Nazis? Simply because they lack belief in your deity... or whatever it is that Aetheists do? I assumed that you were talking about Atheists, but that can't be right, considering that surely you would make sure to spell something like that properly... right?
Yeah I love killing Christians.
I guess I can see where the confusion comes from. Neo-Nazis don't want Jews forcing their right to live peacefully down their throats?
Well, yes and no. The motives are completely different and I don't think that atheists attend those events because they hate theists. Given that the National Day of Prayer kind of directly excludes atheists, it's kind of understandable that some atheists would be a bit upset and want to hold some sort of event, especially because some atheists are going to see having a National Day of Prayer as violating the first amendment.
However, all three groups have the first amendment right to organize an event on any of those days. I guess that is similar. But that goes for any group of people.
I believe National Prayer Day has been recinded, at the wish of Christians as well as Atheists. Atheists didn't like the goverment sponsoring of religion and many Christians saw it as completely redundant designated day as the faithful pray regularly.
It was a Reganesque ploy to sneak more religion into the political dialouge and, like many things he did, a constitutional violation, something Atheists had a right to protest
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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