This post is in response to a rather troubling set of circumstances that Rachel Lucas has been dealing with as of late.  To elucidate:

• She posts that her boyfriend’s father was involved in a serious accident, and asks her readers to keep him in their thoughts.
• She then thanks her readers for their prayers and well wishes with a post titled, “There are no atheists in a foxhole.“  Keep in mind that she is, in fact, an atheist, or, at least, a non-religious individual.  Suddenly, a swarm of angry atheists attack her comment section, trying to prove to her that, indeed, the are atheists in foxholes.
• She tries to clear the air a bit, outlining that she is not the religious type, she can edit comments on her site as she sees fit, and she’s not particularly thrilled with people showing up on her blog and trying to make a personal tragedy into a self-serving religious argument.  Naturally, the attention only encourages the trolls.
• She posts one last time on the subject, stating that arguing with that particular brand of atheists is like arguing with fundamentalist Christians… which, well, it is.  I say this as an atheist.

I will state, right here and now, that there are assholes of all shapes and sizes, of all stripes and colors.  I will also say the following, with apologies to William Jennings Bryan:

If they dare to come out in the open field and defend their sanctimony as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for atheist orthodoxy by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of atheists this crown of crap. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of bull.

(Okay, that was pretty bad.  I almost re-”purposed” the entire speech, but Sen. Bryan was a windbag, so it would’ve taken the better part of an afternoon.)

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