Once, just once I would like to see an atheist group go after the Religion of Peace.
Via AL Com
A national atheist organization is calling for an apology from Troy University Chancellor Jack Hawkins over a video he emailed to students and staff that drew a connection between religion and democracy.
In a letter to Hawkins addressed Dec. 31, American Atheists President David Silverman wrote that a student at Troy was concerned about the chancellor’s distribution of the 90-second video, which Silverman said “asserts that religion, particularly Judeo-Christian beliefs, are necessary to be moral, law-abiding citizens, and implies that those who do not attend church will be anti-democracy and anti-social members of society.”
The letter asks “for a public apology to the student, and other atheists whom you have disparaged with the video you included in your email.”
The video emailed by Hawkins depicts Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen – a Mormon who is open about his faith — commenting on a conversation he had with a Marxist economist from China regarding democracy and religion. In the video, Christensen quotes his friend saying that he was surprised by “how critical religion is to the functioning of a democracy.”