Why Are So Many People Flagging Atheist Mom’s CNN iReport Article As ‘Inappropriate?’
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With close to 740,000 views and 10,000 comments, a CNN iReport article titled “Why I Raise My Children Without God” (link) is one of the site’s most popular features. But now CNN has been forced to defend the article from users who won’t stop flagging it as “inappropriate.”
In the story, a blogger identified only as TXBlue08, who also blogs at Kids Without Religion, discusses why she chose to raise her two children without God. In the opening section, she explains:
“I thought it was only right to be honest with my children. I am a non-believer, and for years I’ve been on the fringe in my community. As a blogger, though, I’ve found that there are many other parents out there like me. We are creating the next generation of kids, and there is a wave of young agnostics, atheists, free thinkers and humanists rising up through the ranks who will, hopefully, lower our nation’s religious fever.”
Those sentiments and the list of reasons for her decision that follow, including “God is not logical” and “God does not protect the innocent” have created so much controversy on the site that CNN recently updated it with the following note:
“CNN hasn’t flagged this iReport as inappropriate, but some community members have. This is a divisive topic, however it does not violate our Community Guidelines, so we ask people to please stop flagging it. We will continue to review the story as often as possible.”
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How uplifting and/or inspiring is that? 
I suppose the fact that the Bible was cobbled together over several centuries by, presumably, a bunch of different people has *nothing* to do with the scattered depiction. Also, what I've never understood is why some people, mostly Christian fundies, pick stuff out of the OLD Testament to support their prejudices and beliefs (esp. those regarding gays) yet I always thought that NEW Testament- about the birth, life, death/resurrection, and teachings of Jesus Christ (who never mentioned a lot of things, including gays) was basically supposed to replace it.
and they just cherry-pick those books/verses in the Bible that (seem to) support them. Just like how many teabaggers selectively cite the US Constitution that "support" their beliefs. Sometimes it seems like many fundies skip the entire New Testament and what Jesus says altogether even though that would seem to be the most important part of the Bible, at least for Christians anyway.
I made you flawed in the first place, and now I'm going to punish you when you can't achieve the impossible of being perfect. And, I love you unconditionally, but if you don't adhere to certain conditions, you are going to face eternal suffering.
My wife and I had our fill of religion being crammed down our throats when we were kids and have no interest in practicing anything now nor making our kids endure it. We don't mock or disparage it or anybody else whom practices religion and we're not going to freak if any of our children want to practice it when they grow up- or when they spend time with religious relatives- but we're just not interested in it personally and doubt we ever will be. And no, a portal to Hell has not opened and sucked our house into Hell........yet. 
You're just jealous because Nadine's anti atheist rant was much better written than your own as well as being more smug and patronizing.
For someone who constantly brags that they live in paradise you sure do seem to have a chip on your shoulder a lot.
I don't mind.
And about themselves. I mean, how can an atheist feel more powerful than a person who believes god is on their side? How much more powerful can you be than to have an omnipotent friend? Every earthquake or hurricane that hurts your enemies must have been a favor from him to you. You lay on hands, ask him to heal someone, and he does through you. Doesn't that make people feel powerful? To know their all-powerful friend will always save them and protect them and be there for them?
An Atheist, on the other hand, knows exactly how powerless we are in this universe--how careless and ruthless it is. How can anyone who doesn't believe in god feel powerful? We know how little control over the natural world we've got. So, I'm not sure why anyone would generalize us as afraid to admit the possibility of god as that would make us lose our power--if we could admit it, we'd gain a feeling of power, wouldn't we?
Just seems a really weird generalization that, as usual, says a lot about believers. So, a belief in god makes them feel powerless not powerful? Is that what they're saying?
But I'll agree with you on the smug, self-rightousness.
I was merely making an annoying generalization, like the poster I was responding to.
dark-sided stuff.
I'm allergic to tomatoes, bell peppers, and several other things. I refused to eat them and was yelled at at the dinner table because I would not taste them. And there are a lot of foods I just don't like. I have very unpleasant memories of pitched battles at my grandmother's house over food. She boiled everything to death.
I'm allergic to Abrahamic religions because of the lack of rational thought. It gets worse the older I get, just like my food allergies.
you will lower yourself to anything to prove your point. From what you have said it is clear who is the bigot and it is not me! All I can say is the only point you have is the one on your head.
Having a conversation with you is like 
that's why. We can put a bunch of votes out there to sway a poll to our liking. I'm sure the Christian Right has forums that can get droves to "flag an article as inappropriate".
It just takes a few, or one person, to notice something worth attacking, then rally the troops to go after it.
CNN has asked people to stop flagging the article. Like that's gonna work.
