Two virulent anti-Christian groups’ latest action to try and remove Christians from society is to tell a high school in Georgia they must remove a sculpture because it contains a Bible reference.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanist Association are threatening the Madison County School District in Danielsville, Georgia. The school has a monument outside the field house of the high school that contains Romans 8:31 and Philippians 4:13.
The monument was paid for by private funds.
“The district violates the Constitution when it allows its schools to display religious symbols messages. Schools may not advance, prefer or promote religion,” the letter from anti-Christian FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel asserted. “The Bible verses on this monument violate this basic constitutional prohibition by creating the appearance that the school, and by extension the district, prefer religion to non-religion and Christianity to all other religions.”
The school’s superintendent says they are looking into options including removing the Bible verses or removing the monument.
Riding the coattails of a national anti-Christian organization, a group of New York Satanists plan to give students of a Florida information how to worship satan.
Orlando high school students had Bibles made available to them on what the school called “Religious Freedom Day.” The anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a suit against the school after they were not allowed to give out anti-Christian materials at the event.
The material in question contained explicit and inappropriate content for children.
The school backed down from the FFRF after the lawsuit was filed and permission was given for the FFRF to promote their hate against Christians in the school.
Now, the New York based Satanic Temple has announced they will be providing materials to the students during Religious Freedom Day.
“I am quite certain that all of the children in these Florida schools are already aware of the Christian religion and it’s Bible, and this might be the first exposure these children have to the actual practice of Satanism,” spokesperson Lucien Greaves wrote in a recent press release about the matter. “We think many students will be very curious to see what we offer.”
The materials from the group including coloring pages of goat’s heads.
A cross that was placed on the helmets of Arkansas State University football helmets to remember two fallen classmates is being removed after anti-Christianists demanded they be removed.
The helmets had the initials of ASU player Markel Owens, who had been murdered in a January home invasion along with equipment manager Barry Weyer who died in a car accident this year.
“My job is to support our players and our coaches in their expression of any type of grief, and that’s what I was doing,” athletics director Terry Mohajir told USA Today Sports. “It is unfortunate, and I am disappointed. However, we’re also going to uphold whatever legal advice we got, and that’s what we did based on the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. That’s what we were told we needed to do. So that’s what we did.”
Jonesboro, Arkansas attorney Louis Nisenbaum is the man who wanted to prohibit the players from honoring their fallen classmates and make sure that the Christian emblem was removed from being seen in public.
The virulent anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation, which strives to remove Christians from society, called the move “great news.”
Eight members of the Allegheny County Pennsylvania county council do not want God in their county.
Eight Democratic Party members of the council voted against a display that would have included “In God We Trust” as part of the display. The national motto was to be included on the display with the Pennsylvania state motto of “Virtue, Liberty and Independence” and the one of the currency mottos, “E Pluribus Unum.”
The virulent anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the council threatening the county because of the potential measure. Democratic County Executive Rich Fitzgerald also openly has an anti-Christian attitude.
“[It’s] a movement by the right-wing evangelical Christians across the country basically to impose Christianity,” Fitzgerald said.
“You should tell the county executive he should get educated on the national motto,” Pennsylvania Rep. Rick Saccone told the Pittsburgh Tribune. “It’s their ignorance that causes them to fear having God in a government place. They shouldn’t fear the name of God or the word ‘God’ in our government.”
The governor of Indiana has said he will defend a veterans memorial in a state park that contains a small cross.
“So long as I am governor, I will defend the right of Hoosiers to display this sculpture in Whitewater Memorial State Park as a lasting tribute to the service and sacrifice of all who have worn the uniform of the United States,” Governor Mike Pence said in a statement.
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a threatening letter last month to the director of Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources saying that the existence of the cross on the monument was a government endorsement of Christianity.
“I fully support the decision by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to accept the sculpture commissioned by local citizens to honor all who have fallen in service to our country,” Governor Pence said. “The freedom of religion does not require freedom from religion. The Constitutions of our state and nation more than allow the placement of this Hoosier artist’s sculpture on public land.”
Supporters of the cross say if it’s offensive to an atheist just to see the cross there, it’s just as offensive to a Christian or any other people of faith to have no symbols there that endorses an atheistic belief system.
An Arkansas pizza parlor owned by a strong Christian who offered a discount on Sundays to anyone who brought in a church bulletin has been dealing with harassment and threats for his refusal to cave to anti-Christianist demands.
Bailey’s Pizza even received a bomb threat delivered through their Facebook page.
“Better get the bomb squad out,” one of the comments read. “Stand fast and get blown up quicker,” it also read. Police are investigating the comment as a legitimate threat.
Shop owner Steven Rose said that despite the threats from the anti-Christian organization Freedom From Religion Foundation saying he was violating the Civil Rights Act by offering the discount, there’s no discrimination.
The church bulletin discount is just one of many offered to the community. The discount does not require anyone to be a part of the church whose bulletin is brought in.
Advocates for Faith and Freedom, who is representing the pizza parlor in any legal actions, says the attack of the anti-Christianists is backfiring.
“The majority of the responses to the promotion have been positive,” it stated. “Bailey’s Pizza has received enthusiastic support from the local community and around the country. Some people have come from other states to dine at Bailey’s Pizza and show their support. One Pennsylvania gentleman purchased 150 dollars’ worth of pizza each day for a week, for delivery to different organizations, such as the police and fire departments.”
A virulent anti-Christian organization is targeting a veteran’s memorial at an Indiana park because it contains a 14-inch tall cross.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources demanding the removal of the cross from the 8-foot-tall statue located in Whitewater Memorial State Park.
“No secular purpose, no matter how sincere, will detract from the overall message that the Latin cross stands for Christianity and the overall display promotes Christianity,” attorney Rebecca Markert wrote on behalf of the anti-Christian group. “[The cross means] the government only cares about the deaths of Christian soldiers.”
The cross is part of a wooden chainsaw-carved statue that reads “all gave some; some gave all.”
A man who is an Army veteran initially complained about the cross being a part of the tribute.
“I just thought that a memorial to veterans in a veterans’ park didn’t need to be turned into a religious shrine,” Wendell Bias told a local newspaper, despite the fact no worship services have been held at the site.
The virulent anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation is now using an injured high school football player in their campaign to eradicate Christians from daily life.
The group is upset because after a player from Seminole High School was injured and being tended to by trainers, players took a knee and bowed their heads in prayer for their injured teammate.
The FFRF claimed that an adult lead the prayer and so they threatened the school over it.
“It is our information and understanding that Seminole High School (is) allowing an adult, a local pastor, to act as a ‘volunteer chaplain’ for the football team,” FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel wrote.
A school spokesman said the FFRF was flat out lying about the school having a team chaplain. The school also said that no adults are seen anywhere around the students who were praying.
“There is nothing to cease and desist because our behavior was within the guidelines in the first place,” spokesman Mike Blasewitz told television station WFTV. “No adults in the photo, no adults participating, no adults leading it.”
A Texas school district has covered two plaques dedicating the school and its students to the Lord because of an anti-Christian group’s threat.
The Midlothian Independent School District confirmed plaques at Mountain Peak Elementary School and Longbranch Elementary School because of the threats of anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation.
The plaques read: “Dedicated in the year of our Lord 1997 to the education of god’s children and their faithful teachers in the name of the Holy Christian Church.” The plaques also contain the phrase “Soli Deo Gloria” which means “Glory To God Alone.”
“It should go without saying that a public elementary school may not proclaim ‘glory to God alone’ nor dedicated itself to a particular church,” FFRF said in a statement. “We do applaud the school district for taking swift action to correct this Constitutional action.”
“Although MISD has not been threatened with a lawsuit,” Superintendent Jerome Stewart told Fox News’ Todd Starnes, “the school district’s attorney advised that it would not prevail in court if it refused FFRF’s request and a lawsuit followed.”
A Christian owner of a pizza business is the latest believer to be targeted by the virulent anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation.
The Wisconsin-based group is threatening Steven Rose, owner of Bailey’s Pizza in Searcy, Arkansas. The business offers what he calls an “old school country atmosphere” and on Sundays offers a 10% off if you bring in a church bulletin.
The anti-Christianists claim that making such an offer violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act which states “all persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, … without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.”
The FFRF claims that they’re discriminating against people who aren’t Christians.
Rose says that the offer is just one of many other offers including discounts for police, fire departments or the Boy Scouts. Rose also says the deal does not specifically state “for Christians” but that you need a bulletin. He said that anyone can bring in a bulletin regardless of their beliefs.