Persecution of Atheists in Public Schools

By:  The Sinister Minister

        Public Display:  Recently I’ve had the unfortunate

experience of viewing a display in the library inside

of the public high school in my town.  On this were

numerous books depicting religious themes, and even an

open bible.  Personally to me this violates the first

constitutional amendment: “Freedom of religion”.  To

me this should be changed to freedom of and from

religion, but of course the federal government, being

primarily catholic/Christian, will never advocate to

the most oppressed minority in this country. The open

bible in the school represents an advertisement of

religion, and personally I don’t want to see it any

way shape or form.  The bible is violating my

disbelief in theism, and therefore not advocating to

my personal beliefs, which is negating my “freedom” in

this country, hence being an extreme violation and

attack on my disbelief system.

In addition to this attack on my freedom there have

been numerous verbal and physical threats to my

person, simply for believing in something other than

expected.  Threats against my person are a felony

according to the Constitution (no less the foundation

of this great country), and should be treated as such,

not a simply cafeteria horseplay.  I take my disbelief

very seriously due to these attacks on my person

whenever I “accidentally” utter a word about atheism

or talk to one of my fellow atheists about this

subject.  But apparently the original founding fathers

of this nation didn’t decide to advocate to anyone

other than those religious groups that came over on

the mayflower or still existed after the Constitution

was written.

Needless to say another group caught in a mass

genocide (soon after this vile document was penned by

the Founding Bigots) are the Native Americans.  They

were persecuted to the full extent of American

authority and ability.  They were tracked down, shot,

hung, murdered and so on.  The same sort of thing

would happen to Atheists at that time if we were as

abundant as Native Americans.  It seems as though the

first ten freedoms in the constitution, known as the

bill of rights, only apply to a select few:

Plutocrats, government fat cats, religious advocates,

and so forth.

The Theory of evolution first devised by the infamous

Mr. Darwin states constantly that the weak are always

swallowed up by the larger, and/or die off from their

own weakness.  Well I can tell you one thing, we are

far from weak: we comprise 11% of the US population

and 21% of the world population, making us the second

largest group of the “religious pool” in the world,

second to Christianity/Catholicism, and above Islam.

        Students:  They can seem to be friends, peers, and

even close buddies.  But you’d be surprised at how

easily they can turn on you, simply for who you are.

Certainly they can respect you for who you are.  I

guess not.  Simply if they overhear a brief

conversation about you being an atheist, they will

badger and question you, and continuously pummel you

until they’ve “proven their point” about the existence

of God, and how we’re “going to hell”, simply for not

agreeing with them.  It’s basically like they’re

sentencing us to death for all eternity without even

bothering to try to understand our position.

Balderdash (another word for “What a huge pile of

bullshit!!!!!!!!!).  They feel that we are out to

destroy all religion.  I assure you this is false in

maybe 90% of us.  Some are pushed too far by this type

of attack and assault on our disbelief, and will lose

their ability to control themselves, and then they

will give all Atheists a bad name, without even

knowing until its too late.  I can completely

understand their point of view.  How?  Because I too

was pushed to the edge and snapped one day, but

instead of exploding on everyone as the entire staff

of the school thought I would (and still think so to

this day), it was the complete opposite.  I became

clinically depressed and had to stay in the psych ward

of the hospital.  It’s about my 1-year anniversary of

this occurrence, and I am still nowhere near to being

cured.

        Anyways all this is trivial information about me (for

all the ladies out there; -).  These sorts of

outbursts are nothing more than a repressed cry for

help, held inside their minds with remorse, grief, and

segregation.  Eventually all this mental stress has to

be released somewhere, and believe me it’s absolutely

not good, let alone healthy when this happens.  The

pressure built in their minds from their “friends” and

peers will cause mental stress, which will lead to a

breakdown, and then to either an explosion or

implosion in the mind.  It’s the same thing with a

machine.  If it’s not properly maintained from time to

time, things will get out of control.  And sadly this

is all due to peer pressure, which could have been

avoided, had their friends been more understanding,

and compassionate, rather than angry and biased.

The Teachers:  They are required by state law to be

completely neutral according to religion, race,

nationality, sex, or age, and so on.  But recently in

my school numerous teachers have begun asking me

questions such as: “Where’s your faith now?” “How is

it possible for you not to believe in a god now?” and

the all time favorite: “It’s not possible to survive

without faith in a god these days.  You need faith in

your life, or else you would just die off, right?”

Now I thought they were supposed to stay absolutely

neutral when it came to the students’ personal beliefs

(and disbeliefs for that matter), obviously they

don’t.  The teachers are not allowed to bring their

own opinion into the matter.  The school is a place of

learning (on occasion, a rare occasion I might add:

-P) and preparation for college and the next chapter

in life.  If teachers are going to squabble with

students all day about why they disagree with us, the

nothing will get done. 

Say, for instance, a teacher walks in on a

conversation between two atheist students talking

about their disbelief before the class officially

begins.  The teacher asks: “What are you talking

about?  Of course there is a God.  If not how could we

have all come into existence?”  Then the students

reply with various statements regarding their

disbelief and they both squabble on and on and on.

Then the entire class gets curious and gradually the

extra chatter diminishes and the other students start

to listen in on the unnecessary argument and start

adding their own tune to it.  The argument stretches

on for about 5 minutes now.  The other students begin

to yell and criticize and tease, whereas the atheist

students barely have enough time to squeeze in a few

words of rebuttal, before they are (rudely)

interrupted by some other theistic moron. By now the

argument has taken between 10 and 20 minutes of class

time.   So what happens to the teacher and student

caught in an argument?  The teacher screams:

“INSUBOORDINATION, DETENTION NOW MOTHERFUÇKERS!!!”

OK, well maybe not those exact words (depends on the

teacher).  But somewhere around the lines of: “Look

what you’ve done you’ve started a class wide unrest in

our school, disturbing the entire learning experience

for this period.  You’ve ruined this days lesson for

everyone, now how do you feel?”  Now those 2 atheist

students have been completely embarrassed in front of

their peers and will be subject to criticism during

the rest of the day by both the original students in

the class and the students’ friends that have caught

word of mouth about the argument.  The 2 students are

stuck trying to explain constantly about how this

argument could have been completely avoided had that

damned teacher minded his own business.  I would know

about this whole experience.  How?  Obviously it

happened to a friend of mine and me.

“Help” From The Guidance Counselors:  This whole

experience is just as similar as all the previous

ones.  The guidance counselors are in the school in

order to provide emotional support when and if needed,

and to work quickly to resolve any issues that a

particular student might have with the school.

Guidance counselors (or the thought police, as I refer

to them) are not paid to listen to a student’s

complaint and then add their own theistic judgment

about our disbelief system.  It is our decision, not

theirs, what we choose to believe and not believe in.

I personally like believing the truth and not in some

phony over advertised and publicized fairy tale about

some fruit pie in a dress bitching about “Oh I don’t

like how you treat us, and we’re not gonna take it, ok

sure you can crucify me, but my dad is gonna come down

here and fuçk you up the ass.”  But what does my

guidance counselor do?  He criticizes me and tells me

quote: “Our school is allowed to display any sort of

Christian, Jewish, or Muslim decorations we feel

necessary, because we are advocating to all the major

faith groups, as required by law.”  He forgot to

recognize the fact that even though there are very few

atheists in this school, we are still the largest

minority in the world (we are the 2nd largest group in

the “religion pool” (coughcesspoolcough) and yet we

are treated like the gum stuck to the bottom of Jane

Fonda’s walking shoe, as previously stated).

Administration:  As per usual, no help can be gained

(let alone expected) from the morons in the plush

comfy offices at the heart of this “en-bigoted”

institute.  They still question atheists’ moral

capabilities.  Basically they think that since we have

no faith in a god or “higher power” we are inclined to

be more criminal and notorious and mischievous.  This

is hardly the case, I assure you.  Just because we

don’t have anything to believe in, doesn’t mean we

don’t know the difference between right and wrong.

Christians and Jews have the Ten Commandments at their

side, constantly reminding them to be good, or you go

to hell and die continuously for all eternity.  The

Ten Commandments was just common sense thrown onto two

blocks of stone and raised/advertised for all to see.

People before our time were pretty naïve to common

knowledge automatically because they didn’t believe in

a God.  Oh of course, thanks for clearing that up for

me, now I feel so spiritually healed, can I go to

Heaven now?  Somebody convert me, quickly!

Anyways in continuation of the afore mentioned bigots

in their offices getting hand jobs from students they

threaten with expulsion.  They feel since we don’t

believe in a predetermined set of morals on rock (now

on paper), we obviously are going to start killing,

fuçking other peoples wives, stealing, bearing false

witness, and so on down the line.  Why?  Because

according to them we have already broken the first

commandment (notice its first, superiority complex?  I

think so: -P), we don’t believe in God, so therefore

since we blatantly acknowledge this and openly say so

on occasion, we automatically break the rest of the

commandments, or are about to. So in their minds we’re

already as bad as all the killers, rapists, and

thieves in prison.  Thanks for your support, assholes.

 Really, why do these people get paid to insult the

minorities of this school?  Because nobody else will

listen to us, and they feel they can get away clean,

without having to worry about a damned thing.  Tell

you what… You can take your Ten Commandments stick

each one of them up your ass sideways, ugly.

In closing, it seems we have no one to turn to but

each other inside of these biased, and ignorant walls.

 The only ones we can talk to for support are each

other (and occasionally in my case, to myself).  We

are alone in these walls and will remain so, unless

something is done to change that.  And no I’m not

saying to go Columbine.  That would be completely

unethical (supposing we even have ethics at all,

right?) and hypocritical.  So relax all you trigger

happy monkeys and just know that today we are trying

to build a better future, simply by writing essays,

listening to speakers, and keeping our minds and eyes

open.  This ends my essay writing for now, but I will

return with a brand spanking new essay about “How to

debunk atheist stereotypes: A guide to breaking the

common misperception of atheists,” or something along

those lines.  I’m still deciding between that and

finishing my damned website.

So until we meet again friends,

Keep Atheist Pride Alive!

Your friend in disbelief,

Lionel “The Sinister Minister” Moirez

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