No Atheists Here!!!

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!

"This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God," Davis said. "Get out of that seat . . . You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon."

Apparently it's still open season on some views of God.

This can only happen in America, where atheism, free-thinkers or rationalists can be castigated as though they were the devil incarnate (here). And this coming from a government official no less... 

Hopefully this will never happen in Singapore (although I know the people in general are quite religious)...

Keith Olberman has some comments on this incident in his "Worst Person" segment: