I was just reading biologist (and infamous atheist) P.Z. Myer’s blog “Pharyngula,” which brought this column in The Times-Herald to my attention. Purporting to be “A few religious thoughts to ponder,” it is in fact clearly a thinly veiled bigoted screed against the nonreligious. This is notwithstanding that Thanksgiving is a wholly secular holiday, so I don’t see what religion has to do with it.
At the risk of being unoriginal, I am including the same selection from the beginning of the column as Professor Myers. It displays best how obviously hateful and mean-spirited the writer must be. As one commenter (comments are now closed) said best: “Shameful…”
Thanksgiving must be a terrible time for atheists. They have no God to thank.
They do not have the privilege of gathering with family and friends to express gratitude by saying: “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” An atheist on his deathbed faces serious uncertainties. Gazing upward, he pleads: “Oh God, if there is a God, please save my soul — if I have one.”
