Hatred toward atheists
Published February 4th, 2010I don’t usually link to items on other sites, but this vehemently anti-atheist letter to the editor (reported by the Friends of Irony blog) made me steamed — not just because of how awful it is, but because there are actually quite a few people who seem to feel this way.
Update: A commenter helped us calm down a bit by revealing that the letter is a hoax. Which is a good thing. But there are two reasons I’m not completely placated: a) Although this letter is a hoax, I’ve seen many along the same lines (and heard people say such things in person), so it’s a little too real to be funny, and b) The Snopes page linked by in the comments mentions that the letter drew a lot of correspondence from the paper’s readers before the hoax was discovered, and I’m willing to bet that not all of that mail was against the letter’s contents (although I’d be very happy to be proven wrong on this).
Alexandra on February 5, 2010
Calm down! It’s a hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/atheists.asp
A perfect example of Poe’s Law.
http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law