The Nappy Cat Chronicles

In the past, Michael Newdow has tried to remove “One nation under God” from the pledge and “In God we trust” from the currency. Now:

An advance copy of the lawsuit was posted online by Michael Newdow, a California doctor and lawyer who has filed similar and unsuccessful suits over inauguration ceremonies in 2001 and 2005.

Joining Newdow in the suit are groups advocating religious freedom or atheism, including the American Humanist Association, the Freedom from Religion Foundation and atheist groups from Minnesota; Seattle, Washington; and Florida.

The new lawsuit says in part, “There can be no purpose for placing ’so help me God’ in an oath or sponsoring prayers to God, other than promoting the particular point of view that God exists.”

Stirring the pot is fine with me. In fact, I think “allegiance” pledges are acts of fucking hokey idolatry. But actions like this make Americans and everyone else on Earth hate atheists. Seriously, a solid 99% of everyone believes in the hocus-pocus bullshit. If one man really wants to effectively change the expectations of a significant percentage of all of those people, he should stick to abstention and thoughtful and culturally relevant essays. Only the president and, ironically enough, the fucking pope can have his cake and eat it too.