I’ve joked that you would have trouble following the programming because the shows would start and stop suddenly through random chance. ; )
Seriously, I hope it doesn’t run “atheist porn” about Madalyn O’Hair’s alleged greatness, an opinion of her legacy I don’t happen to share. I’ve read several accounts of her life which show how badly a mess she made of it, leading up to her abduction and murder by a violent career criminal named David Waters whom she had hired for her American Atheists’ organization, and then managed to piss off somehow. Madalyn’s younger son, the atheist activist Jon Murray, and her granddaughter (Jon’s niece) Robin all lived together, and they all died at the hands of Waters and his accomplices.
Despite my efforts to bring this up on atheist forums, apparently Madalyn’s fans don’t want to discuss the weirdness of her family situation. Madalyn in her 1965 Playboy interview says that she thought girls should become sexually active as early as 13, and the boys at 15, and that religious superstition interfered with normal sexual development and fulfillment. Yet she kept her younger son Jon from moving out of her house, and she reportedly ran off the only known girlfriend Jon ever had (it remains unknown if Jon ever had his sexual debut with any woman); so Jon, the atheist, up through his murder at age 40 lived like a sexually abstinent christian or something, and quite possibly died a virgin.
If “atheism” makes it easier to become sexually self-actualized, a belief even many christians hold in a back-handed way, then Jon must have really sucked at the task of living as an atheist, despite having the example of America’s best known atheist in the latter 20th Century as his mother.
Now, if some fringe christian obsessive like Fred Phelps had a 40 year old son who never moved away from home and apparently never had a girlfriend, atheists would draw conclusions from the situation which support their prejudices about the sex-negativity of certain kinds of christian belief. Why, look at what religion did to this poor fellow!
Has anyone tried to watch “Atheist TV”? https://atheists.org/atheistTV/live
I’ve joked that you would have trouble following the programming because the shows would start and stop suddenly through random chance. ; )
Seriously, I hope it doesn’t run “atheist porn” about Madalyn O’Hair’s alleged greatness, an opinion of her legacy I don’t happen to share. I’ve read several accounts of her life which show how badly a mess she made of it, leading up to her abduction and murder by a violent career criminal named David Waters whom she had hired for her American Atheists’ organization, and then managed to piss off somehow. Madalyn’s younger son, the atheist activist Jon Murray, and her granddaughter (Jon’s niece) Robin all lived together, and they all died at the hands of Waters and his accomplices.
Despite my efforts to bring this up on atheist forums, apparently Madalyn’s fans don’t want to discuss the weirdness of her family situation. Madalyn in her 1965 Playboy interview says that she thought girls should become sexually active as early as 13, and the boys at 15, and that religious superstition interfered with normal sexual development and fulfillment. Yet she kept her younger son Jon from moving out of her house, and she reportedly ran off the only known girlfriend Jon ever had (it remains unknown if Jon ever had his sexual debut with any woman); so Jon, the atheist, up through his murder at age 40 lived like a sexually abstinent christian or something, and quite possibly died a virgin.
If “atheism” makes it easier to become sexually self-actualized, a belief even many christians hold in a back-handed way, then Jon must have really sucked at the task of living as an atheist, despite having the example of America’s best known atheist in the latter 20th Century as his mother.
Now, if some fringe christian obsessive like Fred Phelps had a 40 year old son who never moved away from home and apparently never had a girlfriend, atheists would draw conclusions from the situation which support their prejudices about the sex-negativity of certain kinds of christian belief. Why, look at what religion did to this poor fellow!