Bitter, evil atheists join Xmas parade...

[onager]

18 people made up the Atheist Vuvuzela Marching Band which paraded down Texas Avenue while playing "Jingle Bells" on vuvuzela horns.

News 3 spoke with the leader of the group who said they weren't protesting Christmas or the parade but were there to announce their presence in the community...

"We just wanted to say hey, we're here, its' ok, you know. We didn't intend to be specifically offensive to anyone, you know, we just wanted to say we're here too," said Keri Bean of the Brazos Valley Atheist Vuvuzela Marching Band.

Bean organized the Brazos Valley Vuvuzela Marching Band and said they chose to perform "Jingle Bells" to stay with the Christmas spirit of the parade.

"When we were walking around we would say, 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Hanukkah', 'Merry Kwanzaa', there's a whole bunch of different holidays that happen now, so we wanted to make sure that everyone was represented," Bean said.

But then, you can't please everybody...

"Wasn't exactly happy about the Christmas Parade this year, I spent many years teaching my children to love and respect other people and to love the fact that they were children of God and I don't feel that they should be influenced in any other way especially not at a Christmas parade," said Tina Corgey, who is a lifelong Bryan resident.

Corgey brings her three kids to the B/CS Christmas Parade every year.

She said she was disgusted by what she saw on Sunday.

"If you have younger children they weren't going to understand but I have older children, a teenager, 8-year-old and they were curious and they asked questions and it was hard for them to believe and understand that there are actually people out there that don't believe in God," Corgey said.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/more_evil_atheists_waging_the.php#comments

They ASKED QUESTIONS?!? A teen-ager ASKED QUESTIONS? Oh, the humanity! Right now I am clutching my pearls and may any minute succumb to an attack of the vapors.

And you better keep those kids inside, Tina. No telling what they will see out there in the wide wicked world. They might see a Jew or a gay couple or a Negro, or even a godless atheist.

The horror...the horror...

[Speck Tater]

1. It's just getting harder to brainwash our kids these days with "alternatives" allowed out there. nt

[Deep13]

2. "..hard...to believe and understand that there are actually people...that don't believe in God.."

And yet we do. Sorry to rain on your indoctrination, sweetheat, but you had better get used to the idea that not everyone thinks like you do. And we have no obligation to pretend we don't exist.

[rurallib]

3. where is Brazos Valley?

[onager]

4. East Texas

The "B/CS" mentioned in the article is Bryan-College Station, the local metro area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazos_Valley

[struggle4progress]

5. That's fun. But the choice of song is uninspired and ill-suited to the vuvuzela.

Thirty or forty years ago, when my friends and I decided to heckle straitlaced Texans for the holidays, we went caroling with this tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GFqhCq2HA

[jeepnstein]

6. Not "Bitter, evil atheists..."

more appropriately I would call them "anti-Christians".

[PassingFair]

7. Obviously Fundamentalist, Militant Atheists....today it's a vuvuzela...tomorrow....

they'll want their OWN FLOAT!

[onager]

8. Thanks, Scrooge. Here's a little Xmas gift for ya...

[jeepnstein]

13. I am impressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxh-FfElY0M

This is one of my favorites from him.

[trotsky]

9. What exactly was "anti-Christian" about their parade appearance? n/t

[Mariana]

11. Their very existence is offensive, of course,

but the fact that they actually identified themselves publicly as atheists at a Christmas parade can only be construed as an assault and an insult to Christmas, Christianity, and Christians. They couldn't possibly be there to have a good time and join the celebration, now, could they? Of course not.

There are plenty of Christians who bitch and moan because many atheists enjoy celebrating Christmas. They feel that atheists have no right to participate in THEIR holiday. What a bunch of Scrooges.

[trotsky]

12. Oh heck yeah.

That's what I expected the response (if I got one) to be.

Count me among the atheists who enjoy celebrating this time of year - but I do it for the original reason, the Solstice. Happy Solstice!

[humblebum]

10. Now that is a group of atheists that I can respect. nt