Ed Brayton over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a comment up about this article. Apparently King Abdullah of Saudia Arabia is calling for all people of the book, (ie; Muslims, Jews and Christians) to get together and combat the Great Evil of Atheism and the resultant drop in morality that has accompanied atheism’s global rise.
I really can’t say it any better than Ed:
I’m just not inclined to accept lectures about ethics from a brutal dictator whose regime beheads people for being of the wrong religion, puts gay people to death and has roving gangs (they call them police) whose job is to beat women who leave the house unattended by a male relative. You’re gonna lecture me on ethics, you fascist asshole? Fuck you. And your little god too.
I doubt the squabbling fundies who lead the major Shepherd God sects will be able to stop killing each other long enough to mount a serious fatwa against atheists. However, if there’s any common ground to be found amongst these crazies, this would be it.
Religious freedom is a right guaranteed by the US constitution, but the followers of The Book would like nothing more than to ensure that everyone “chooses” their particular brand of crazy. Secularists must be forever on guard to protect this right.
They execute people like us in King Abdullah’s world.
