For those who don't live in Texas you might be wondering why an atheist blog is so concerned about this, you thought this was just going to be a blog about Atheism, well it is I just like politics, mainly because it always astounds me how a entire group of people can be so ignorant of the issues, I'm talking about Tea Partiers and the Christian Fundamentalists who claim they want to take back America and bring it back to the way it used to be, which of course would be an Equal and Secular Freethinking Non-Christian society, but of course Christians need Priests to do the thinking for them, especially in Texas, and Priests tend to change the facts to suit the needs of the time, so this may explain why only 17% of US High School Seniors pass history, now watch this I'm going to use christian logic(that's the definition of an oxymoron) to defeat christian ignorance, since about 17% of the US is either Atheist, Agnostic, or Secular, its obvious that Christianity's account isn't correct because if they were 80% of students would pass their history test. Our forefathers must be rolling in our grave.
Now that my rant is done, my main issue with Perry is mostly how he acts, the man has no respect for the separation of church and state, oh and that whole Gardasil incident, but I'll talk about that another time, lets begin. The prayer rally was a blatant violation of the separation of the two, here's why Perry will contend that its a prayer for America and its crisis, mostly he is referring to the economic crisis, however following that line of logic, where was Perry back in 2008 and the housing market collapsed sinking the economy because republicans didn't want a lot of regulations in the US Mortgage industry, and because of this almost every bank in the world insured their mortgages with one US company, which was bleeding out like a dead hooker in Perry's trunk, which probably happened at some point too. He goes running with a gun all the time, I'm all for 2nd amendment rights but the man perpetuates the negative stereotypes of Texans, seriously it seems like he picked up a book on rednecks and just uses it now as a self help book, including the time when he hired a creationist to the Texas Board of Education.
Anyone who has been to Texas will realize that we have too many Evangelists, seriously Atheists everywhere could tie them together and use them as a float to Europe which seem to tolerate us pretty well, especially since the reason we are here is because they were religious oppressors, I got to make a stop in Amsterdam but hey at least they like us, back to the point Evangelists were worried about having potential GOP candidate who is Mormon, to qoute cnn's article over the issue;
"We think a them Mormons as bein' in kind of a cult," one of the Houston rally attendees told me. "I couldn't vote for one a them when we got a real Christian like Governor Perry runnin'."
(see what I have to put up with daily)
So Rick Perry what do you say now about your prayer, seems to me like the rally only served to have you viewed as a "True" Christian. As a side note you can get a preview of the future of America with Perry in charge, while the prayer rally had 30,000 people in attendance, nearby a separate event was being held giving out free backpacks, school supplies, uniforms, haircut vouchers, immunizations and fresh produce to the needy, over 100,000 so many showed up the event had to be closed early, job creation only works if you can replace the jobs that you lost in the first place or get better ones, not the other way around.
More to Come...
