Christians support religious liberty in the public square: Space Station edition

Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate it on Earth! #HappyHanukkah pic.twitter.com/FKC2M5iXni

— Jessica Meir (@Astro_Jessica) December 23, 2019

While angry atheists do their best to prevent people from saying "Merry Christmas" in public Christians have absolutely no problem with a Jewish astronaut publicly celebrating Hanukkah on the very public Space Station.

That's because unlike intolerant atheists, as opposed to atheists who respect people of faith's rights, Christians are cool with everyone being able to live their faith even in public settings.

What Christians oppose, and what the 1st Amendment prohibits, is the Federal government declaring one faith based belief system to have more rights than any other.

Which is what intolerant atheists are pushing for.

Atheism is a faith based belief system just like Judaism or Christianity though it does lack the evidentiary support those religions have.

For example according to Prof. Hawking if there is no God, if we're just meat machines, we can't have free will. That is we make absolutely no choices whatsoever from what cereal to eat to what faith we adhere to.

That's because if we lack souls then all our thoughts are brain chemistry and brain chemistry is controlled by the laws of physics not us.

But when we listen to what we're thinking we know that we do in fact have free will; we choose to do good or evil. Which means that to "lack a belief" in God atheists must have faith that all that goes on in our heads is nothing more than an illusion.  They have no way to show that's so so their belief is based on faith.

But even though atheism is a faith based belief system, functionally a religion, atheists believe that it's ok to expound atheist beliefs in public schools but that it's wrong to express Christian or Jewish beliefs in the same setting.

A public school teacher who talks about Christ faces punishment while one who extolls atheists like Nietzsche can proselytize with impunity.

It's time to end this attack on the First Amendment and allow all faith based traditions to be presented, but not endorsed, in public settings.