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All I Need Is A Hallmark Card Part 2

Haaaa hahahaha Debbie Schlussel (she was the blonde, not the black woman. so I got them mixed up in the last post. My apologies.) has a website and apparently doesn't know what YouTube is.

It's hard to believe their letters because they were all attacking me for my appearance on CNN's "Paula Zahn Now," a week ago. Yet, each letter claims the sender just watched me on CNN. First of all, the video of that segment appears nowhere on the net. Believe me, if it did, I'd link to it.

What, like this?

I'm surprised these atheists would be so obedient to a higher power that told them to e-mail me since, after all, the one thing they're supposed to have in common is a lack of belief in a higher power. Well, no-one ever said atheists are consistent or immune from hypocrisy.

Ummm yeah. What? So because atheists find you offensive and bigoted and decide to call you on it, we all "obey some higher power"? Wuhh? Wow, this is already starting off as some great logical deduction.

I don't mind receiving the atheist hate mail, since I know that in a few years, these same people will either be Muslim extremists (redundant) or helping the country fall further in its fight against the creep of Islamic imposition on America . . . or both.

Atheists are one step away from eventually becoming Muslim? I had no idea that Islam was so close to Atheism that the conversion was that easy... oh wait, never mind, that's just a complete straw man. I mean it's not like she has proof of any sort.

Look at famous atheists and what happened to them. Adam Gadahn a/k/a Azzam Al-Amriki--now a top Al-Qaeda video "personality"--was raised by his hippie Jewish father and equally bizarre gentile mother as an atheist. And look how he turned out. Ditto for hippie-spawn John Walker Lindh.

So two people who supposedly (according to Ms. Schlussel with no documentation to back it up) were atheist later were Muslim terrorists, that means all atheists become Muslim extremists. Wow. I can't even wrap my mind around the vapidity of that logical deduction. My cat can construct logical arguments better than that. Let's explain this with the wonder that is a Venn Diagram:

If you don't believe in anything, you'll fall for virtually nothing.

I couldn't agree more. Oh. Wait. Did you mean fall for virtually anything Debbie? I could argue the merits of that statement as you meant it. I mean, who are the ones falling for invisible omnipotent cloud beings, magic and zombie saviors? But that's being an angry attacking atheist I suppose....

That's why Europe is so quickly turning Islamist--because atheism dominates and Christianity is rapidly dying there.

Statistics please? Proof? Anything? Oops. Forgot. Blind conjecture unsupported by facts is the hallmark (get it? hahaha) of your trashier and more well known idol Ann Coulter. Follow in her footsteps, babe! Maybe you'll be a washed up junkie-looking megapundit someday too. Opps. There goes my attacking atheist ways. Shame on me.

So to you hate-filled atheists a/k/a future Muslim extremists (redundant), your e-mails have no effect on me.

I wouldn't expect anything to have an effect on someone with the deductive reasoning skills of a chipmunk anyway.

Update: CJ does some great internet sleuthing (okay, he just used Google. But if someone of Ms. Schlusser's stature can't do it, it must be hard work) to find that Adam Gadahn never was an atheist. In fact, he was homeschooled and involved in Christian fundamentalist homeschool groups. CJ's conclusion is perfect:

I’m afraid there’s only one conclusion we can draw from all this. Using Debbie Schlussel’s own logic, which says that if one member of group X becomes a Muslim extremist, all members of group X will inevitably become Muslim extremists, we have no choice but to ban fundamentalist Christianity and homeschooling. As Adam explains, it was his exposure to the deranged world of homeschooling and fundamentalist Christianity that led to his conversion to Islam, and thus eventually his radicalization. I call on Debbie Schlussel to back up her previously stated beliefs with action, and speak out against this dangerous practice and ideology. After all Ms. Schlussel, America’s very survival is at stake.

Indeed, Ms Schlussel. When will you speak out against the enemies of America being trained in Christian homeschools? Unless... you admit your logic is deeply flawed?

I won't hold my breath.

All I Need Is A Hallmark Card

Alright, when Stephen "Screamin'" A. Smith is the most sane person on a CNN panel about discrimination against atheists, I really don't know what to think. My entire worldview has been altered. Up is down. Black is white. Rex Grossman doesn't suck.

There is so much wrong with what those women are saying I don't even know where to begin. All atheists need are some hallmark cards? What more do "they" want? I won't even get into the fallacy that "this is a Christian nation." (just because it's majority Christian doesn't mean that the nation should be run to the every whim of the majority at the expense of the minority's rights).

When Zahn asks Debbie Schlussel [Update: Ooops, I got them mixed up. The person I thought was Ms. Schlussel was instead someone else. The blonde is Debbie. See my follow up post for the crazy that is Ms. Schlussel] if Atheists should keep their beliefs secret, she just says "what's their belief? they believe nothing!" and then the blonde woman says she just agrees 100% and that the actual discrimination by atheists against Christians. (Oh and that high school in Michigan? Michigan has one of the largest Muslim communities in the country and I bet the high school in question has a high percentage Muslim population).

In what world are the poor poor majority Christians so put upon? and really.... HALLMARK CARDS? "They need to shut up."?!!! This from a woman whose parents and grandparents fought for equal rights and treatment. And telling atheists to just "not pray" when their kids are in school, surrounded by prayer, being made to feel like they are required to pray, is stupid. Ugh.

It's also too bad no one was able to respond to the blonde woman's charge that Europe is more hateful than America because we have more "good Christians" and Europe is full of atheists and Muslims. Ugh. And people wonder why I get pissed off and feel like atheists are among the last two groups (the others being homosexuals) that it's okay to discriminate against and hate. Among many things, as I've asked before, could an out atheist run for office and win in today's America (all other credentials being equal)?

These women seem to be doing the standard "I don't have a problem with atheists.... but they should shut up and not be heard."

Reminds me of "some of my best friends are black/gay/jewish/insert discriminated minority here."

But yeah, I gotta thank Stephen A. Smith (whom I never liked when he did sports commentary on ESPN) for being the voice of sanity here.... as much as it feels like my grasp on reality is now crumbling.