Sunday, December 13, 2015

It's Sunday

On Friday, a classic Christian nativity scene was erected in the rotunda of Nebraska’s capitol building. The state’s lieutenant governor, Mike Foley, was scheduled to attend.

But on 18 December the nativity will have to be moved, to make way for exhibits organised by a coalition of atheist and humanist groups who last summer booked up all available exhibition space in the rotunda for the week around Christmas Day.

From 19 to 26 December, therefore, the capitol will host an exhibition called Reason this Season, organized by Lincoln Atheists, Omaha Atheists and several other humanist associations.

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[A]ny group is only allowed one week per exhibition. So, earlier in 2015, the atheist groups made sure they were first in line to book up Christmas week. “It’s going to be a big shindig,” Chris Clements of Lincoln Atheists told the Guardian. “Our message is that it’s a secular government and religion has to stay separate from that. And it’s meant to communicate that atheists are not bad people – we can be good without God.”

[...]

{A] large pine “reason tree” will be decked with messages promoting free opinion and scientific and philosophical thought.

  Guardian
Oh yeah. There won't be any protests or any problems of any kind. Foley and his boss should be preparing to pack their bags.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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