'Have you heard about this case? Great answer from The Judge!

In Florida, an atheist became incensed over the preparation of Easter and Passover holidays. He decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidays while atheists had no holiday to celebrate.

The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the long passionate presentation by the lawyer, the Judge banged his gavel and declared, 'Case Dismissed!' The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said, 'Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case?

The Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances. Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah ... yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!'

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, 'Obviously your client is too confused to even know about, much less celebrate his own atheists' holiday!'

The lawyer pompously said, 'Your Honor, we are unaware of any such holiday for atheists. Just when might that holiday be, your Honor?'

The judge said, 'Well it comes every year on exactly the same date --- April 1st! Since our calendar sets April 1st as 'April Fools Day,' consider that Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, in my opinion, if your client says there is no God, then by scripture, he is a fool, and April 1st is his holiday! Now have a good day and get out of my courtroom!!

Way to go, Judge!

AMEN

man............what a butt

who? the judge or the atheist?

by the judge of her athiest its gotta be the pic

Seems a bit harsh and akin to descrimination to me >.< The judge certainly could have handled it better than that.

It's a joke. Never happened.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/atheistholiday.htm

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/atheist.asp

I am glad to see there is a judge out there, still who will actually dismiss something as nonsensical as this, instead of trying to kiss ass in order to remain popular.

yeah, well everything is discrimination anymore....frankly I'm sick of trying to be politically correct so I don't offend ...ya know.

It's a joke, people.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/atheistholiday.htm

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/atheist.asp

This has been circulating around since 2003.

fine...we heard you...it's a joke....but still...it would be nice if people actually put a stop to frivolous lawsuits and stuff like that.

wtf did he say???

he specifically said "what a butt"

lol...not sure, but I think he was talking about my picture, not the story...lol

Thanks for the clarification

There's a law in the works. If it passes you may get your wish.

THank God

This has been posted here several times already, and has been debunked, as Wiley noted above -- the thing that amuses me is how some reputed Christians are so ready to jump on the bandwagon of referring to atheists as "fools" -- how very Christian of them!

no matter what... not everyone will be happy... you cant please every one and i have quit trying...lol