Atheist Nexus Logo  Confessions of a Chickenshit Tax Payer:
Thoughts on Thoreau and the Religious Right SCOTUS  If atheists
and other non-believers had something akin to a confessional, I
should have to go and spill my guts. The confessor would inquire
what troubles me and I would say, I have sinned, Father. I
failed to emulate Thoreau and refuse to pay taxes unless and
until the Supreme Court of the United States realizes the
foolishness of its Greece decision to allow God to get into
public meetings so that the first party heard is a confidence
artist requesting the intrusion of Judeo-Christian dogma in
programs and meetings that are supported by my tax dollars.
Thoreau, as you know, was jailed briefly for refusing to pay
taxes. That takes courage, and I am a chickenshit. Of course, to
a non-believer, any prayer or invocation at the beginning of any
public meeting is simply anathema, but Muslims, Wiccans,
Satanists, Odinists, Onanists, and followers of  the Great
Spaghetti Monster can just feel offended and