High School Atheists Are Organizing -- Why Are Schools Pushing Back?

[magus_69]

High school non-theist groups are getting dedicated support from a national organization but their schools are flipping out. What does this mean for the future of atheism?

February 22, 2011 | High school student Brian Lisco just wanted to form a student club. A senior at Stephen Austin High School in the Houston suburbs, Lisco wanted to meet with

Comments

[erunamiryene]

"Why would anyone need a club to talk about what they don't believe in?"

*blinkblink*

Wow, REALLY? I mean, the idea is REALLY that complicated to you?

[brewsternorth]

Quite. And it's not that they "don't believe", it's that they believe differently, usually after some spiritual and philosophical inquiry. Isn't that the sort of thing that school ought to be about?

[bestdaywelived]

I've heard this argument from many a Christian.

[rayiroth]

In places like I grew up in, sure. I was a lucky wee atheist who never had the need to explain myself, never had to fear for my safety, never had condescending jerks trying to convert me, never been treated as a lesser person for it, never being told that somehow my belief isn't real that I'm just trying it for attention, never was compared to serial murderers, never ...

If any of those and more are what those teens have to deal with day in day out, then shit yeah they deserve a safe place. Why would that even need to be asked?

[erunamiryene]

Totally agree. I just boggle at the idiots who can't understand that concept.