for the DU atheists on memorial day...

[Extend a Hand]

here's a monument in (of all places) Alabama. It is honoring those atheists that served in our country in the military.

http://www.ffrf.org/foxholes/

[Shoeempress]

1. How refreshing. Thanks for posting

[byronius]

2. I love this. Thank you.

[Book Lover]

3. And why not Alabama?

Where better? It's a lovely monument and I know the sentiment is appreciated.

[Extend a Hand]

4. sorry...did not mean to offend

I love Alabama, my family is all from AL, and I graduated from college there. It just really suprised me that you'd find this monument in the heart of the bible belt.

[Book Lover]

5. Oh gosh, no!

This is what happens when vocal tone is vital to a sentence's meaning. My apologies!

[blondeatlast]

6. Not an atheist, but I love the sentiment--and thank them for the sacrifice

all the same.

I think it's wonderful, thanks for sharing it!

[kliljedahl]

7. In Alabama? Who woulda thunk it?

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[kliljedahl]

17. Needs another KICK!!

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[stevedeshazer]

8. I'm an atheist, and I'm nominating this

I hope fellow atheists, agnostics, and free thinkers in general will join me.

We non-believers don't get a lot of respect in this country, even though our founders clearly felt that we should.

Our Constitution provides for freedom of religion. I respect all citizen's beliefs, for they are constitutionally protected just as mine are.

I won't judge others, as long they don't judge me

Thanks, sad_one, for posting this. I, for one, really appreciate it.

[KaliTracy]

9. thanks for posting this. nomitated for others to see as well

[ellenfl]

10. i rarely claim to be an atheist

because i have always perceived it as a 'stigma'. i agree with marx who said that 'religion is the opiate of the masses'.

anyway, sydney j. harris said it best for me in a column in the miami herald many, many years ago . . .

"what i wish i knew at 18:

that the atheist who believes in man and scorns god is closer to holiness than the religionist who believes in god and scorns man."

ellen fl

[catzies]

12. That's a great quote ellenfl, and I'm gonna use it.

:hi: from a native Floridian transplanted in California.

[ellenfl]

13. it IS a great quote, catzies and you are welcome to it.

i have been carrying this quote around with me for 37 years.

ellen fl

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. It's not the atheists that are the problem in foxholes.

It's the foxholes that they're put in that's the problem.

[stevedeshazer]

14. kick for Sunday

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[NMMNG]

15. Thanks for posting this sad one!

It is good that there is a monument out there to help dispel the notion that there are no 'foxhole atheists'.

[stevedeshazer]

16. Memorial Day kick

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