During a couple of years I have had a conflict with myself because I bring my cars to a local repair shop, owned by a Christian businessman. Every time they work on my cars, they have been honest, oriented to service, and fees are more than fair. I can't help, but thinking of him like a delusional, very nice person.
On the other hand, I strongly agree with the idea of spending my money wisely, I mean supporting business in line with my causes.

What I have found several times when I share my atheism with someone (most of the time, smart people) is a statement like "I am Catholic, but I don't believe all that shit." So, my best explanation is that some people don't want to bother themselves with getting out of the closet. They keep going to church and doing everything just the same than religious people. From my point of view, that is a lack of integrity, but we have to deal with it.

This post is among your very best. We all notice that, every year, media try to raise a "tears circus" on the "unprecedented" tragedy. Everybody seem to forget the two cities erased in Japan by an American attack in 1945, or the cruel dictatorship that began on September 11, 1973, in Chile, with the help of CIA.
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I vote YES. Post their name, email, physical address, SSN, everything! They know their message is hateful and violent. Many of them would be ashamed of being read by a next of kin. Fellow churchgoers should know too.
I would like to see their hate mail exponentially forwarded on Facebook.

I wonder how much critical analysis is required to call anti-american every people who present an opinion he dislike. But what, exactly, mean to be an american? To believe that the events of 9-11 were not previously expected by the government? To believe that Iraq had mass destruction weapons and that Saddam was related to Al Qaeda? To believe that after ten years of war, over one million people dead, and $15 billion spent, we have something to celebrate?
Please, tell me that being an american is something else that being a troll with stars and stripes on the t-shirt.

It isn't necessary to see unhealthy lifestyles and religiosity as cause and effect. They are both effect of a sadly poor education. People who don't know how to properly think and check the validity of their own ideas, hardly can take a personal responsibility for their mental and physical health. Now we found a cause-effect relationship: education and health.

Mine says: "I do not promote hate nor violence."

I think I know what you mean about Catholics. I remember my wife getting upset with me because she wanted to pray a rosary for her dead grandfather. She didn't know how to do it, so she asked me (the atheist member of the family) to lead the rosary prayer.

Without pork, beer and music, that was far beyond the line.

When I was a Catholic, I used to get upset by non-religious, Christmas decorations and motifs. "A snowman is not Christmas at all". Now, being an atheist, I appreciate all those secular, non-sensed, nothing-related-to-religion, traditions.

Being hispanic, Christmas are six weeks of food and drinks, music, parties all night long, and doing almost nothing in the office. I can't escape from so much happiness.

Sometimes I catch myself singing religious songs. No big deal about it. It is like to sing songs to god Dionysus (Bacchus) in exchange for wine. So singing about Jesus' birth, real or mythological, is good exchange for pork meat and beer. No moral trouble.

We could ask for the support of the Secular Coalition for America and the Freedom from Religion Foundation among other groups to develop this idea. I mean:
-select the appropriate slogan, the one we like or other.
-design and acquiring the display media (pin, label, whatever)
-marketing and distributing (keeping a low price but allowing for a small benefit for the organizations)
-we all display the item the National Day of Prayer, May 6, 2010.