Coalition of Liberals

Dumb:

New advertisements on Washington DC bus stop shelters ask a simple question: "Don't believe in God?" After that gets your attention, they answer it: "Join the club."

More than a figure of speech, this rejoinder is a direct invitation to join one of the dozen local non-theistic groups that have come together as Washington CoR – the Washington DC area Coalition of Reason.

As an atheist, let me be the first state that this is silly. You can't have a coalition of people who don't believe, because you can't reinforce a null. Now, if it was the United Coalition for Science, I might see a little value. A little.

However, what invariably happens with these groups is that they become political, and without exception they lean very, very hard to the Left. That leaves me, Churt, Mad Builder, Banduar, and other conservative atheists on the curb, as our views are most certainly not welcome among such company.

Think that's over-reacting? Then go to their website and the first thing you'll notice is that Jon Stewart recently held a rally for them in D.C. There are people to the left of Jon Stewart, but not very many. Bill Maher, maybe... although poor ol' Bill suffers the additional handicap of being a bloomin' fucking idiot. Just guess what would happen if I, as an atheist, were to show up to such a rally with a poster supporting, say... the Second Amendment?

Yeah.

This so-called coalition is nothing more than weak-minded, insecure liberals looking for an emotional blanket. They're welcome to it, but I want no part of it. I'm quite confident in my beliefs, or lack thereof. I don't crave or need groupthink reinforcement, and I certainly don't want to belong to the United Coalition of Retards.