Columnist: Atheists a 'cult of losers'

Gil Spencer, who writes for the Delaware County Daily & Sunday Times in Primos, Pa., is troubled by atheists who are demanding that Barack Obama not say the words "So help me God" when he takes the oath of office Tuesday.

From Spencer's column:

It is very important that when Barack Obama takes the oath of office next week, he doesn't say, "So help me God!"

At least it is very important to a couple-dozen anti-religion activists, including our very own "freethinker" Margaret Downey.

They have gone to court to ask a judge to ban the mention of "God" from the inaugural ceremony.

"When an invocation of 'So help me God' is uttered, it empowers the religious community to demean atheists," Downey said in an interview. "It ... reinforces the notion that America is only comprised of God believers."

And it's not, you know. Shocking as it may seem, there are actually some people in this country who don't believe there is a God. And hearing the president of the United States profess his belief that there is (or pretending to) is very hurtful to the feelings of the un-superstitious.

Atheists, as a group, are very sensitive. Or at least they pretend to be.

Today, Downey remains a career atheist who hires herself out for what she bills as "fun-filled presentations which always include visuals, door prizes, props ..." etc. (I’ve heard of "prop comics" but not "prop atheists.")

Her goal has always been publicity. And by joining the cult of losers who pretend the very mention of the word "God" is an affront to our Constitution and demeaning to them personally, she's gotten it.

God bless her.

Read more of Spencer's ruminations at the newspaper's Web site.