Comments on: Religious Bus Driver Suspended in Iowa https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Kate from Iowa https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542648 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:22:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542648 They’re already mowing down people every time they turn left here…what’s plowing a bus load of commuters into the side of the Wells Fargo Arena when the rapture happens going to hurt? They should have beelieved in Jeeves and drank blood every Sunday like good little minions.

And fyi…the Rapture has already taken place. Nobody noticed because the only guy to dissapear was roundly hated by just about everyone who knew him. And he was cheap. And smelled like saurkraut and headcheese.

]]> By: Joel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542647 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:06:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542647 I don’t think Christians should be allowed to drive any commercial vehicle. Someday, hopefully soon, they’ll all be raptured and endanger the lives of thousands of us innocent heathens left behind.

It’s very selfish of Christians to get behind the wheel when they know at any moment they could be scooped up into God’s loving arms. Leaving their unattended vehicle to kill us non-beleivers.

]]> By: mediajackal https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542646 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:46:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542646 The Constitutions guarantees us freedom of religion AND freedom from religion.
If the driver were a true believer in Christ, she’d proselytize.
Ya can’t find decent martyrs these days.

]]> By: Phillip IV https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542645 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:35:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542645 “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” is a completely neutral and factual statement – there is nothing in it that could be construed as offensive in the slightest degree by anybody who isn’t vociferously opposed to freedom of opinion on principle.

We’re making it too easy for people to feel martyred today – if it still involved at least a little bit of getting stoned, fed to the lions or crucified, people wouldn’t be so eager to do it.

And in a wider context … I think believing in an afterlife should automatically disqualify you from operating mass transit vehicles.

]]> By: Jamie https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542644 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:35:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542644 Firstly, the message is not against her Christian faith. Secondly, if she’s refusing to do her job, then she should be fired – not suspended.

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542643 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:59:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/19/religious-bus-driver-suspended/#comment-542643 Probably the atheist group should be quoted saying they’d rather the driver be allowed not to drive it. (The driver won’t be allowed, of course, but it’s good PR to say so.) Anyway atheist drivers should be allowed not to drive the churched up buses, too, if it came to that.

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