Immorality, Discrimination, Bigotry, Illegality, Timidity, Ignorance, Stupidity, and Hatred in
Opposing Secularism and Religious Liberty
By Ashu M. G. Solo
A. Introduction
I filed civil rights cases with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in 2012 and 2013 for Christian prayer recitations at City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) events and Christian messages on City of Saskatoon buses. These cases resulted in the City of Saskatoon ending prayer recitations at its events and adding messages for other religions on City of Saskatoon buses.
I made nine other secularism complaints.
Two of my published op-ed articles support religious liberty. Seven of my published letters to the editor support religious liberty.
Furthermore, I have two published op-ed articles in which I originate secular alternatives to Christmas and Easter.
B. Secularism and Religious Liberty Don’t Promote Immorality
Secularism doesn't promote immorality. Secularism is part of religious liberty and assures that people of all religions, nonreligious spiritual people, agnostics, and atheists are treated equally. Secularism protects religion from the state and the state from religion.
Government promotion of religion hasn't helped morality. Morality comes mainly from the culture, not religion, of a society. Movies and T.V. series that promote polygamy, polyamory, adultery, law enforcement criminality, military criminality, or other criminality promote immorality.
People cry about me fighting for secularism and religious liberty when they should be crying about a lack of morality in society. If you want morality in society, don't cry about secularism, which is part of religious liberty. If you want morality in society, complain about movies and T.V. series that promote polygamy, polyamory, adultery, law enforcement criminality, military criminality, or other criminality.
C. Immorality of Your Opposition to Secularism and Religious Liberty
Secularism and religious liberty don’t promote immorality. Opposing secularism and religious liberty is a form of immorality.
There's nothing wrong with being a Christian, but it's majorly wrong to be a Christian supremacist like it's majorly wrong to be a white supremacist. If you believe that Canada is or should be a Christian country, then you're a Christian supremacist. A Christian supremacist believes that the religion of the majority should be the de facto religion of the country, that people in the majority should be treated with superiority, and that it's okay if the government promotes Christianity and indoctrinates people into Christianity. Being a Christian supremacist doesn't require being Christian; I've seen atheists and religious minorities who are Christian supremacists. A Christian supremacist is as bad as a white supremacist. Opponents of my secularism cases are Christian supremacists.
If you believe that Canada is or should be a Christian country, then you're nothing but a dirty filthy bigot to the core and a disgrace to the country. Look in the mirror and see your dirty filthy bigotry if you believe that the government should promote Christianity or indoctrinate people into Christianity. If you are a Christian supremacist, then the stench of your dirty filthy bigotry is as foul as the stench of sewage in a wastewater treatment facility.
D. Secularism and Religious Liberty
I believe in a country where the government neither promotes religion nor suppresses it, where the government neither favors any religion nor disfavors any religion, where the government makes public policy neither based on religion nor based on opposition to religion, where the government and public and private organizations require religious beliefs and moral beliefs to be accommodated, and where the government treats people of all religions, nonreligious spiritual people, agnostics, and atheists equitably.
Religious liberty requires that the state and agents of the state not give preferential treatment to any religion, not discriminate on the basis of religion, not interfere with the free practice of any religion, fully accommodate the practice of religion, not make public policy on the basis of religion, and ensure that public and private organizations not discriminate on the basis of religion and fully accommodate the practice of religion.
There are over 10,000 religions, 150 of which have 1 million or more followers, not including branches of each religion. The state can't promote all religions and can't promote all religions equally so it should promote none. Also, nobody's taxes should go toward promoting a religion that she doesn't believe in.
The freedom of religion includes freedom from religion. Separation of religion and state is a fundamental aspect of freedom of religion and the only way to guarantee religious equality. Secularism ensures all religions are treated equally, protects religion from the state, and protects the state from religion.
I don't believe in using any religious beliefs as a basis for public policy.
I believe in these principles of secularism:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
— U.S. Constitution Amendment 1
"No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust."
— U.S. Constitution Article VI, paragraph 3
I fought for secularism because Canada isn't supposed to be a Christian country. It's supposed to be a secular multireligious country. Canada needs to respect everybody. It needs to protect the rights of the minority from the discriminatory will of the majority.
Government promotion of only Christianity is analogous to going to a restaurant where there is only one menu option and the restaurateur force feeds you with that single option. Secularism is analogous to going to a restaurant and being able to eat whatever you want. The former is suitable for some people. The latter is suitable for all people. My opponents were fighting for some people. I was fighting for all people.
The secularism I support is not an attempt to interfere with religious liberty. The secularism I support is part of religious liberty. I strongly support religious liberty. The secularism I support has no government promotion of religion. In the secularism I support, people are free to wear religious clothing or otherwise practice their religions. I have reviewed publications in support of this.
At the link below on CounterCurrents, you can read an op-ed article I wrote on protecting religious minorities:
E. Government Indoctrination into Christianity
Indigenous kids were abducted from their families and put into residential schools where they were physically attacked, sexually assaulted, deprived of food and nutrition, not allowed to speak their languages, not allowed to see their families, and forcibly indoctrinated into Christianity. Residential schools were operated by churches to forcibly indoctrinate kids into Christianity.
Federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada are still indoctrinating people into Christianity not through the brutality of residential schools, but through prayer recitations, Christmas messages, statutory holidays for Christian celebrations, etc. A message is sent through these practices that you need to be a Christian or accept the superiority of Christianity to fit into Canadian society. Government promotion of Christianity indoctrinates people into Christianity.
Christian supremacists argue that it's fine for the government to have Christian prayer recitations at government events. People are free to pray at government events, but the government shouldn't be reciting prayers at its events.
A lot of brazen bigots sent me messages saying that I shouldn't have come to Canada or should go back to where I came from if I'm unwilling to accept Christian supremacy. I was born in Canada, but it doesn't matter where I was born. Nobody has the right to make Canada a Christian country.
Indigenous people were here first and many of them were forcibly indoctrinated into Christianity in residential schools. Why should Indigenous people accept government indoctrination into Christianity? Why should Indigenous people accept Christian supremacy in this country? Indigenous people who oppose secularism and religious liberty are opposing the rights of Indigenous people who weren't forcibly indoctrinated into Christianity by the government.
Just because my ancestry is from India, it doesn't mean I have to accept government promotion of Christianity in this country. Look in the mirror and see your dirty filthy bigotry if you support government promotion of Christianity.
F. Illegality of Government Indoctrination into Christianity
The inclusion of Christian prayer recitations in municipal government events and Christian messages on municipal government buses clearly violated the freedom from religion inherent to freedom of religion and clearly gave primacy to one religion over all other religions.
I attended numerous banquets for numerous secular organizations and there was never a prayer recitation at any of them and certainly not a Christian prayer recitation at any of them. I would have thought the last place I would hear a prayer recitation was at a municipal government event for volunteers including volunteers serving on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee, which promoted respect for all races, religions, ethnicities, cultures, etc.
There were many people at the volunteer appreciation banquet who were not Christian. If people wanted to pray before having dinner, people were free to do that on their own according to their own religious beliefs, but when there is a Christian prayer recitation at a municipal government event, that is highly discriminatory.
Politicians were free to promote Christianity on their own time, but they weren't free to use the office of mayor or a municipal government event funded by taxpayers to promote Christianity and impose their religious beliefs on others who don't share them and give preferential treatment to their religion over all other religions by trying to lead people who aren't Christian in a Christian prayer.
I was invited to attend the Volunteer Appreciation Banquet because of my volunteer work for the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee. I didn't volunteer to be subject to Christian indoctrination.
I joined the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee to fight against discrimination. I never would have thought that my service on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee would instead make me subject to discrimination at a volunteer appreciation banquet by the municipal government for public representatives on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee and other City of Saskatoon committees and boards.
If I had known there would be a Christian prayer recitation at the volunteer appreciation banquet, I certainly wouldn't have attended because I didn't want to be subject to Christian indoctrination at a municipal government event or anywhere else. If I wanted to attend a prayer recitation, I could have gone to a religious institution. If I wanted to attend a Christian prayer recitation, I could have gone to a church, but I'm not a Christian.
Most people at the volunteer appreciation banquet wouldn't be happy if a Sikh, Scientologist, or Buddhist mayor was to have someone say a prayer recitation from his religion to the audience. Why should Christianity be treated any differently?
Municipal politicians should stop making Saskatoon citizens who aren't Christian feel excluded and like second-class citizens by having Christian prayer recitations at municipal government events and Christian messages on municipal government buses. This is absolutely disgraceful.
Christian prayer recitations at municipal government events and Christian messages on municipal government buses strongly violated my freedom of conscience because I am not a Christian, I do not believe in a Christian God, I do not believe that any Christian books are the word of a God or a prophet, I do not believe in any Christian stories, I do not believe in many Christian values, I strongly oppose many Christian values, I do not practice any Christian observances, I do not do Christian prayers, I not celebrate Christian holidays, and I do not attend Christian religious institutions.
Religion is a fundamental freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. The freedom of religion includes freedom from religion.
It was my position that freedom of conscience in section 2a of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms includes freedom from religion, that section 15 of the charter guarantees religious equality, that the charter forbids attempts to coerce, limit, or otherwise influence the choice of religious observance, and that section 27 of the charter on multiculturalism forbids conferring special privileges or benefits on any particular religion. It was my position that prayer recitations at City of Saskatoon events and religious messages on City of Saskatoon buses violated these sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It was my position that prayer recitations at City of Saskatoon events and religious messages on City of Saskatoon buses discriminated on the basis of the prohibited grounds of religion and creed contrary to section 2 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, violated freedom of conscience in section 4 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, and violated section 12 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code by discriminating against people who aren't Christian with respect to the services provided by the City of Saskatoon. It was my position that freedom of conscience in section 4 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code includes freedom from religion.
Separation of religion and state is a fundamental aspect of freedom of religion. Separation of religion and state means the state can't interfere with freedom to practice religion, but also means the state can't promote any religion. This is to protect people of all religions including Christians.
When politicians had Christian prayer recitations at civic events or Christian messages on city buses, it sent the message that there is a priority given to Christian values, that Christians are more valued or welcome than others while marginalizing others, that Christianity is more valued than other religions or a lack of religious beliefs, that Christianity is the state religion, that a citizen is unequal and second class if she's not a Christian, that only Christians can serve on City Council because a non-Christian won't have a Christian prayer, that volunteers on civic committees and boards are not treated equally if they're not Christian, and that only Christians should volunteer for civic committees and boards. This makes Saskatoon look like an archaic city of religious intolerance and forces those who object to the prayer recitation to either sit through it against their religions, consciences, or wills or leave the room and be embarrassed in doing so.
The Christian prayer recitation at a civic event was a coercive attempt at Christian indoctrination because it sent the message to people who aren't Christian that Christianity is treated like the de facto state religion and that people need to convert to Christianity if they want to fit in at city events, if they want to be a first-class citizen whose rights are respected, if they want to be on City Council, and if they want to volunteer for civic committees or boards.
I was angered that my taxpayer money was funding City of Saskatoon events and City of Saskatoon buses that promote a religion I don't believe in.
The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ruled against Saguenay City Council having prayer recitations in Mouvement laïque québécois and Alain Simoneau v. City of Saguenay and Jean Tremblay as can be seen at
https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2015/2015scc16/2015scc16.html
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled against the Penetanguishene Town Council having prayer recitations in Henry W. Freitag v. Penetanguishene as can be seen at
http://canlii.ca/en/on/onca/doc/1999/1999canlii3786/1999canlii3786.html
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled against Saskatoon Public Schools having prayer recitations.
When a StarPhoenix reporter questioned the mayor, he proposed having a prayer recitation for a different religion every year. Author David Barrett has documented 10,000 different religions, 150 of which have one million or more followers, not including branches of each religion in the World Christian Encyclopedia.
The government can't promote all religions and can't promote all religions equally so it should promote none. Also, nobody's taxes should go toward promoting a religion that she doesn't believe in.
Did the mayor want to have 10,000 different prayer recitations? Where would they have found people to recite all of these prayers? Why wouldn't they have just let people pray on their own if they wanted to instead of having prayer recitations at municipal government events?
There are numerous religions that most people have never heard of. Did the mayor want to have a Scientology prayer, a Zoroastrian prayer, and a Heaven's Gate prayer? These religions have no less validity to their followers than any other religion. It would take millenniums to rotate through prayers for every religion. Different people attend the banquet every year and they don't live for millenniums so nobody would ever be exposed to every prayer for every religion at the banquet. A taxpayer's money shouldn't be used to promote religions that she doesn't believe in.
The idea suggested by City Council of allowing greetings for other religious holidays in addition to Christmas greetings is not a practical idea because there are over 10,000 religions, 150 of which have one million or more followers, not including branches of each religion. Most of these religions have multiple holidays. Therefore, it would be impossible to have messages for holidays in all other religions.
Are they going to have greetings for Scientology holidays and Voodoo religion holidays? Are they going to have messages for L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, a holiday that is as important for Scientologists as Christmas is for Christians? They can’t display messages for all religions so they should display messages for no religions. Also, nobody’s taxpayer money should fund city buses that promote a religion he doesn’t believe in or that he opposes.
The bus drivers can choose which programmed messages they want to display at their own discretion so I doubt if many of them will display messages for religions that they don’t believe in. Do they think bus drivers are going to display messages for Diwali or Ramadan? Are they going to force bus drivers to display messages? How is this going to be enforced? Are they going to discipline bus drivers who refuse to display messages?
If “merry Christmas” messages are so important to people, they can stick them on their own personal vehicles or even pay for private advertisements inside the bus containing this message. The city shouldn’t be displaying this message on its own along with the route name and number on programmable bus signs.
My opponents are being extremely petty by insisting on having Christian prayer recitations at city events and Christian messages on city buses.
In a free society, the majority cannot discriminate against the minority. In a free society, the rights of the minority must be protected from the misdirected will of the majority.
Instead of discriminating against religious minorities, politicians should be respecting all religious minorities. Instead of engaging in religious bigotry, politicians should be fighting to stop religious bigotry. Instead of imposing their religious beliefs on others, politicians should not use their offices and government events to promote their own religions.
In a constitutional democracy like Canada, the majority cannot discriminate against the minority. This isn't a Christian city or Christian country. This is a secular multireligious city in a secular multireligious country with people from numerous religions as well as nonreligious spiritual people, agnostics, and atheists. We need to respect everybody. We need to protect the rights of the minority from the discriminatory will of the majority.
G. Secular Pre-Meal Recitation
After I filed a civil rights case against the City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) for prayer recitations at its events, people wanted City Hall to continue reciting some kind of pre-meal thanks. I don't understand why when people can pray on their own to their own ideas of the divine or just go ahead and dine. A city solicitor tried drafting a pre-meal thanks, but was unable to make it secular so I wrote a secular pre-meal thanks that's printed in this article:
https://globalnews.ca/news/923210/solo-proposes-compromise-in-prayer-complaint/
H. Christmas Messages on City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) Buses
My secularism case regarding Christmas messages on City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) buses was more important than my secularism case regarding prayer recitations at city events because the former were much more frequent.
People argue that Christmas and Easter are already secular celebrations to people, but the people they're talking about are mostly of Christian ancestry and the same can be said about all religious holidays. Hanukkah is a secular celebration to non-Jews who are of Jewish ancestry and Eid al-Fitr is a secular celebration to non-Muslims who are of Muslim ancestry, but the U.S. and other western countries don't have federal or statutory holidays for any religion but Christianity.
As a result of my secularism case against Christmas messages on buses, the City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) added messages for a few other religions. The problem with this is they're still excluding messages for over 10,000 religions, most of the bus drivers are only displaying the Christmas messages, and the bus drivers display the Christmas messages for about a month while displaying messages for other religions for a day.
There are Christians calling for boycotts of stores that don't say "merry Christmas" to people. It's completely wacko to boycott a store for trying to be inclusive and not say "merry Christmas" to people who don't celebrate it. These people calling for boycotts of stores aren't trying to spread good cheer. They're trying to force stores to push Christianity on people.
After I filed my secularism case for Christmas messages on buses, for several years, I got countless messages from people I don't know saying "merry Christmas." These messages were frequently followed or preceded by messages of hatred. You can see two examples of this in the hate messages below. They weren't telling me to have a merry Christmas because they wanted to spread good cheer. They were telling me to have a merry Christmas and preceding or following that with messages of hate to try to annoy me and anger me.
Similarly, after there were numerous complaints against Christmas messages on City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon City Hall) buses, as you can see in Saskatoon City Council agendas, people don't want the Christmas messages left on there to spread good cheer. They want the messages left on there to push their religion on people.
It is inappropriate and discriminatory to have a Christmas message displayed by Saskatoon Transit Services, which is owned by the City of Saskatoon and funded by taxpayers. People are free to put “merry Christmas” bumper stickers on their personal vehicles, but the City of Saskatoon is not free to put “merry Christmas” signs on Saskatoon Transit buses or other City of Saskatoon vehicles. If the “merry Christmas” message was from a private advertiser on one of the internal bus signs, this would be acceptable, but it is not acceptable for Saskatoon Transit Services to display this message on its own.
I. Statutory Holidays for Christmas and Easter
It's discriminatory for the government to have statutory holidays for only one religion while ignoring holidays for other religions.
A lot of religious minorities and nonreligious people aren't comfortable celebrating Easter and Christmas and having their kids celebrate Easter and Christmas because they're Christian festivals. I created secular options that they can celebrate instead. Nobody should have a problem with that unless he wants to indoctrinate people into Christianity or discriminate against people who aren't Christian.
I originated alternative holidays to Christmas and Easter not because I have a problem with Christians celebrating Christmas and Easter, but because I have a major problem with the government having statutory holidays for Christmas and Easter. As long as there are statutory holidays for Christmas and Easter, people who aren't Christian can celebrate the holidays as Christmyth and Feaster:
"Feaster: A Holiday Alternative to Easter" by Ashu M. G. Solo
"Christmyth: A Holiday Alternative to Christmas" by Ashu M. G. Solo
Instead of Christmas and Good Friday being statutory holidays, people should get two or three days that they can take off according to their own religions or convenience. If an organization like a retail store doesn't have enough people available to work on a particular day, such as Christmas, it can still close for that day. Private companies and organizations can close down on whatever days they like, but the government shouldn't declare Christmas and Good Friday as statutory holidays. Schools can have two winter breaks instead of calling them Christmas and Easter breaks.
Christians could take their holidays on Christmas and Easter, Jews could take their holidays during Hanukkah, Hindus could take their holidays on Diwali and Holi, other people could take holidays according to their own religions or even cults, and nonreligious people could take their holidays whenever they want. This is the best way to accommodate everyone including Christians.
This would help businesses because they could have non-Christian workers available to work on Christmas and Good Friday. Movie theaters, drug stores, bowling alleys, arcades, pool halls, restaurants, etc. would probably like to open on Christmas and Good Friday.
In R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. (1985), the Supreme Court of Canada invalidated laws requiring businesses to be closed on Sundays, which are a Christian Sabbath or days of rest. The court said that the Parliament of Canada requiring Canadians to observe "the day of rest preferred by one religion" violated the guarantee of freedom of religion in section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and contradicts multiculturalism in section 27 of the charter. Therefore, it can also be argued that having Christmas and Good Friday as statutory holidays violates section 2 and section 27 of the charter.
J. Other Secularism Complaints
I made nine other secularism complaints that I never told the media about. Nobody can stop me. One of the secularism complaints was made to the military. Two were made to a university. One was made to a school board. Two were made to public schools. One was made to a community association. I don't care what private companies do. I don't care what individuals do. I'll list all of my secularism complaints in my condensed professional biography in the future.
I only told the media about the two secularism cases that were filed with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. I didn't need to go or didn't have legal standing to go to a human rights commission for the other nine secularism complaints. I found that I got better results when the public didn't know what I was doing.
K. Timidity in Fighting for Secularism and Religious Liberty
The Saskatoon municipal government (City of Saskatoon) was having Christian prayer recitations at volunteer appreciation banquets. Hundreds and possibly thousands of people including city councillors and a mayor attended these banquets. The mayor supported the prayer recitations. The city councillors who didn't complain about the prayer recitations are gutless cowards or brazen bigots and should be ashamed of themselves.
Nobody else complained about the prayer recitations at government events. Why wouldn't they complain? There are four main reasons: They supported the prayer recitations, they didn't care about the prayer recitations, they didn't understand their civil rights, or they didn't have the guts to stand up for their civil rights. None of these four reasons applied to me.
As soon as I heard the prayer recitation, I decided to complain. I started by complaining to the people on my table. The next day I contacted the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission and sent an email to the mayor and copied it to the media. You can see the email in the first post on this blog. I gave Saskatoon City Hall the opportunity to stop having prayer recitations before proceeding with a civil rights case with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.
If I had sat through the discrimination and bigotry of a prayer recitation at a government event and not complained about it like countless other people in Saskatoon, then I shouldn't have been an infantry officer, then I wouldn't have the guts to be an infantry officer, and then I would have been unworthy of being an infantry officer.
Officers are the leaders in the military. Officers lead soldiers into combat. Military officers shouldn't be cowards.
The military fights for liberty, justice, and equity in foreign territory, but what about liberty, justice, and equity within the domestic military? The Canadian military is full of bigotry. In fact, the Canadian military indoctrinates people into some forms of bigotry. Anyone who claims otherwise is either lying or doesn't understand the meaning of bigotry. I don't get indoctrinated into bigotry. The truth is the Canadian military is rampant with bigotry because a lot of its officers support the bigotry or don't have the guts to fight against the bigotry.
Officers are supposed to be the leaders in the military. What kind of leader turns a blind eye to abuse of authority? If an officer doesn't have the guts to fight for liberty, justice, and equity in civilian society, how can he claim to have the guts to fight for liberty, justice, and equity in the Canadian military and in foreign territory? Someone shouldn't be an officer in the military if he doesn't have the guts to fight for liberty, justice, and equity in foreign territory, in the domestic military, and in civilian society.
Some extremely stupid and extremely ignorant individuals sent me messages saying they were surprised that someone who served in the military would make complaints about the government promoting Christianity. These extremely stupid and extremely ignorant individuals know nothing about the role of the military in this country.
The military isn't supposed to fight for Christianity. The military is supposed to fight for religious liberty. The military has no credibility in fighting for religious liberty in Afghanistan if there isn't even religious liberty in Canada.
When someone remains silent about tyranny, injustice, or inequity, that person is leaving it for others to fight for liberty, justice, and equity.
If you don't fight for liberty, justice, and equity, then who will for fight for liberty, justice, and equity.? If you don't fight now for liberty, justice, and equity, then when will you fight for liberty, justice, and equity?
The people with the guts to fight for liberty, justice, and equity in or out of the military shouldn't be penalized for doing what others don't dare in or out of the military.
Fighting for liberty, justice, and equity or against other wrongs in society doesn't gain you popularity, but popularity has nothing to do with reputation or respectability.
Thomas Paine was widely hated for openly expressing his opinions. Only six people attended his funeral, but he played key roles in launching the American Revolution and French Revolution. He didn't have popularity, but he'll live forever in history.
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."
--Senator Robert F. Kennedy
"A man does what he must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality."
--President John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
L. Atheism and Secularism
Some extremely stupid and extremely ignorant people thought I was trying to push atheism with my secularism cases. The secularism cases had absolutely nothing to do with atheism.
Atheism is not secularism. Atheism is a belief in no God. Secularism is about a separation of religion and state. Secularism is part of religious liberty and is good for people of all religions, nonreligious spiritual people, atheists, and agnostics.
Trying to get people to stop participating in religion is atheism activism. Trying to get people to stop forcing others to participate in religion is secularism activism. I concern myself with the latter, not the former.
Many atheists oppose religious accommodations and mock religious people. I strongly support religious liberty including full religious accommodation, I don't discriminate against religious people, I don't care if people are religious, I don't try to convert religious people to atheism, and I never insult people for their religious beliefs.
M. Ignorance and Stupidity in Society
As a result of my activism, I saw that there is a stunning amount of ignorance among the general public.
I copied five of the hate messages I received below. You can see in these hate messages that they can't write coherently and can't even think logically. How did they graduate from elementary school? It's surprising that they can function in society.
You can see in these hate messages that a few of them think I'm a Muslim or have Muslim ancestry. They clearly think that anyone who is nonwhite is a Muslim or has Muslim ancestry. How did they graduate from elementary school?
There are over 10,000 religions in the world, 150 of which have over one million followers, not including branches of each religion. The over 10,000 religions are listed in the World Christian Encyclopedia for Christian missionaries to see who they can try to convert. A person really has to be extremely ignorant and extremely stupid to assume that someone who is nonwhite is a Muslim or has Muslim ancestry.
One extremely ignorant and extremely stupid individual sent me a message in Arabic and assumed I can read it. I'm not from the Middle East. When I put it in Google Translate, it looked like a prayer. Another extremely ignorant and extremely stupid individual claimed that I'm a secular Muslim. How did they graduate from elementary school?
I've never been a Muslim and have no Muslim ancestry, but I really don't care at all if people think I'm Muslim because I have no problem with people of any religion.
A lot of people thought that my secularism cases against government promotion of Christianity are fighting against religious liberty. How did they graduate from elementary school? Only extremely stupid and extremely ignorant people could think that fighting against government promotion of Christianity is fighting against religious liberty.
The purpose of government promotion of Christianity is to indoctrinate people into Christianity, send a message that this is a Christian society, and send a message that people need to convert to Christianity to fit into society.
The type of secularism I support is part of religious liberty. It protects religion from the state, protects the state from religion, and ensures that people of all religions, nonreligious spiritual people, agnostics, and atheists are treated equally.
N. Hate Messages
Reader discretion is advised.
The most pathetic hate message I got for my secularism cases was from an extremely pathetic loser who said I should fit in or f*** off. Only an extremely pathetic coward would have such a mentality. Only an extremely pathetic weak-minded coward feels the need to fit in with bigotry. Cowards conform. Heroes reform. Cowards accept wrong to get along. Heroes accept no wrong. Only a cowardly loser accepts discrimination and bigotry against his own group of minority to fit in with the majority. I don't want to fit in with discrimination and bigotry. I fight for liberty, justice, and equity.
Below you can see the kind of dirty filthy bigots you have associated yourself with if you are a Christian supremacist. Below are five of countless hate messages sent to me from Christian supremacists because I fought for secularism:
I hate you!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare you? Your karma will come back at you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you get hit by a bus on Easter Sunday! Good thing you don't live in Alberta!
I should start a crowd funding campaign for your return to Mecca I should ask the press demand you show your birth certificate to prove you're Canadian
Merry Christmas dickweed
Oh shit you are just another one of those ragheads posing as a Canadian.. sorry my bad, thought you were actually a Canadian who meant something.. Merry Christmas anyhow dickhead..
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HANUKKAH from all of your ape and swine friends! I don't care if you were born here or not but take your Quran fuck right eh! you hoser!
If a message on a bus offends you or makes "new comers" feel ostracized because they are immigrating to a country that is fundamentally a judeo-Christian county then they need to get back on the boat! The fact is thought that many people have been immigrating to north America for centuries that are non Christian.
Also according to a local bus ad in my city and from reading portions of the Quran....isn't Islam the "true way of life for jesus?