Madalyn Murray O’Hair is dead.
And you probably don’t care.
I bet you haven’t even heard of her!
Shame on you.
According to this article, she was a hero.
A ‘goddamn hero’ to be precise!
O’Hair lived her life by the creed, “Do what thou wilt shall be the only law.”
Selfishness needed a champion and Madalyn took up the charge!
This line from her most famous speech still stirs souls of the soulless:
“An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.”
To her credit, she amassed a fortune and never built a single church.
She never built a single hospital either.
Instead, she dedicated herself to the tireless work of being ‘The Most Hated Woman In America’.
Difficult, demanding work!
The article claims she was “…hated for being a progressive feminist contrarian…”
But this does not give the hero proper credit!
Americans are generally amiable people who do not hold grudges for long.
America did not give O’Hair its hatred.
She EARNED America’s hatred every single day.
To say otherwise does the woman a disservice.
She abused her children.
She belittled her employees.
She embezzled funds from her organization.
She perpetrated fraud.
She loudly berated religious people of all stripes.
She loudly berated non-religious people of all stripes.
And the self-proclaimed ‘militant feminist’ advocated pornography.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair is dead.
And you don’t even care!
No matter.
Her legacy lives on in the hearts of enlightened pagans.
She was a hateful, vulgar, immoral hag.
But to the atheists, she was a saint.
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Off topic, sort of. According to the show I was listening to, the AI Bots are coming much sooner than later. John… are your podcast doors still locked up!?
Are your CMIs still verticle?
Most important… Did Cami stop feeding the dog and who finished off the can of bacon soda?
I’m pretty sure the bacon soda finally went in the garbage…
Trust me, that was the best place for it.
“Mother Teresa” Don’t make me laugh, she is a devil not a saint, she was a criminal. O’Hair was a saint compared to her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
https://medium.com/@KittyWenham/mother-teresas-sainthood-is-a-fraud-just-like-she-was-eb395177572
LOL!
Yes–the people who starve their children are Christians. Hitler was a Christian.
But Mother Teresa was a criminal.
It might not make sense, yet, but keep repeating it…
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/4744366/my-melody-swirly-o.gif
She also had doubts about her Catholic faith. I think maybe she was a closet atheist who bought a sainthood from the Pope by contributing millions to the Vatican bank account. Amazing who can be conned and how the truth can be ignored.
“Amazing who can be conned and how the truth can be ignored.”
Excellent observation.
Mother Teresa’s autopsy revealed she had human flesh in her digestive track.
There were also letters stashed in her scrapbook that implicated her in the Kennedy assassination.
She also knew what happened to Jimmy Hoffa but refused to help with the investigation. Why do you suppose that is?
Stop mocking him!!! 🙂
She had doubts about Catholicism and may have baptized people near or right after death–as Catholics do… This is an OUTRAGE! The drug-and-alcohol addicted, verbally-and-emotionally abusive O’Hair was FAAAAAAAR more moral.
I do not give a monkeys toss about O’Hair, she was not my representative, I do not care and I knew FA about her. Unfortunately, your saintly hero was not what your faith tells you she was, and this woman also means FA to me.
“…I’ll have a little of whatever sklyjd is taking…” Facts, truth and evidence what else do atheists live on? Not excluding beer of course.
You’ve posted a lot of comments on a topic you don’t care FA about.
That’s what the facts, truth and evidence tell me.
Apparently, you’re including too much beer.
If you don’t give a monkey’s toss about O’Hair, maybe you shouldn’t have said, “…“Mother Teresa” Don’t make me laugh, she is a devil not a saint, she was a criminal. O’Hair was a saint compared to her.”
YOU were the one made the claim. Feel free to retract it, if you’ve realized how silly it was.
He doesn’t realize anything. He just types words and hits send.
He is now accusing BbB of being ‘judgmental’ and unchristian. LOL
I saw.
Christian like Mother Teresa or Christian like Hitler? *giggles*
The only thing consistent in atheism is uselessness.
Ok they were both devils and criminals. When you consider your saint was as holier than thou as much as one can get, it makes a mockery of the Catholic Church as she represented them. O’Hair may have represented atheists at the time but she was not a divine hero and may have been as bad as you say.
Yeah–they were exactly the same! LOL!!!!!
Testimony about O’Hair:
But, if you think that’s bad, just read THIS testimony from someone about Mother Teresa!!!
The horror! A damp cloth, I say! Both utterly devilish.
Let me just even up your cherry picking a bit.
Her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce. The missions have been described as “homes for the dying” by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of money–the Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” was her reply to criticism. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital.
Millions of dollars were transferred to various bank accounts, but most of the accounts were kept secret. Given the parsimonious management of Mother Theresa’s works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?
Good night.
“Good night” means “I’m plugging my ears now.”
Hopefully you can still hear me laughing. HAHAHAHAHA!
To even-up YOUR cherry-picking a bit, this was my comment to my father, before you butted in: “If [Atheists] had a Mother Teresa, they wouldn’t be making movies about a child-abuser.” That’s completely true.
The Friendly Atheist wouldn’t be writing about a vicious narcissist as if she were simply misunderstood (and ultimately martyred) because of her Atheism. YOU wouldn’t be here claiming O’Hair was a saint compared with a nun who spent her entire life in the company of the sick and dying.
You say Madalyn Murray O’Hair isn’t an Atheist hero, and that may be true. But she’s the closest thing any of you can find to one. So, the more you try to make a case that Mother Teresa was some horrible person (instead of looking for an Atheist famous for their charity), the more you prove my point.
Atheists do not martyr people. I do not pander to so called celebrities who are alive or dead as anything better than any another human, sorry to disappoint you. I only claimed O’Hair was a saint as a comparison because it worked and mildly amusing as this site is supposed to have this theme, if I am not mistaken.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair maybe some sort of hero to a group of atheists in the USA some time ago, however most atheists these days are in awe at what scientists are doing and discovering. I do not worship any hero’s and I do not spend time finding out who is a charitable atheist. If people are charitable I am very happy for them and the needy and do not discriminate about their beliefs.
I cannot see much difference between O’Hair and Mother Teresa. The only difference is that Teresa had the weight of the Catholic Church behind her and have covered the reality as much as they can, including a hurried sainthood as to try and emphasis her so called goodness.
It does not matter anymore both criminals are dead and gone, however no doubt millions of supporters will be praying to the saint for many years. Will you be among them?
I don’t pray to saints.
But, are you referring to St. Teresa, or to O’Hair, whom YOU called a saint?
Lol!
Oh! He was trying to be funny!
“Atheists don’t martyr people.”
Do you suppose this is a joke too?
*shrugs*
If so, you need to tell him the rule about shortening the set up. It takes waaaaay too many words to get to the punch line.
Ha Ha, you can be funny after all. Oh, I understand, all Christian God worshippers are kind, loving, upright and honest people, why did I not see that?
Actually, you don’t understand.
Nobody is kind, loving, upright or honest. That’s the reason Christianity exists.
And what do the other religions exist for? I understand more than you think. Your religion exists because man invented a god to provide answers to questions that science can now answer. It exists today to keep the Christian God business going just as the others have done, you are not exclusive.
Science doesn’t answer ANY of the questions addressed by Christianity.
Christianity is VERY exclusive.
You are a neophyte philosopher who isn’t interested in learning anything. You just want to spew your opinion.
“You just want to spew your opinion.” And you don’t? I believe science can explain a lot, however if some religious people believe it is all a lie and a conspiracy, I cannot argue against such an ignorant world view.
I believe science can explain a lot too.
I don’t know ANY religious people who believe “it is all a lie and a conspiracy”. I doubt that you do either.
I said, Science doesn’t answer ANY of the questions addressed by Christianity.
Do you see the difference?
Why are you letting him talk about science?!
Make him defend the statement he made about how O’Hair compares with Mother Teresa! That was waaaaaay funnier than a rehearsed “conversation” about how Christians deny science.
…I’ll have a little of whatever sklyjd is taking…
I’m listening to the radio this morning… and they’re discussing Artificial Intelligence and the inevitable “ending of death” that will happen soon because uploading our entire “intellect” onto another media (the cloud? a thumb drive?) it will, IN THEORY, allow the uploaded person to live forever.
Then it occurred to me: If sklyjd applies to have his intellect uploaded… would they just tell him to go away and not waste their time?
OF!! Would they consider it a gift to humanity by loading his entire brain onto a 1 Gig SD card and then humanely putting him to sleep?
Here’s some light reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Final_Invention
I’ve heard some of those theories. They are based on the assumption that consciousness is just ‘data’.
Netflix had a series called ‘Dollhouse’ a few years ago that was based on this idea.
Ok BbB how very judgemental and so Christian of you.
Actually, that was kind of an atheistian thing for me to do… insult your intelligence and all. So we’re good… right? Ummmm. I mean… I’m good with my version of good… my truth, as it were. I’m assuming your good might mean something else… which is FINE!!!! Because we all have our own truth, and I’m cool with that… even if you aren’t cool with that… cool?
Anyway… at least I’m not pretending to be good CHRISTIAN while I insult people. Actually, it’s a reverse golden rule: I do to you, what I expect you to do to me.
Taxpayer funded hospitals either religious or not are paid for by everybody.
Great point!
Atheists pay taxes.
We talked about how much moral credit people should get for paying taxes in the podcast that just came out!
Amazing…
🙂
I hadn’t considered that O’Hair was simply advocating that atheists should pay their taxes.
Now I’ve considered it and … it’s bogus. Sklyjd will need to explain why hospitals are morally superior to churches, brothels or crack houses and of course, he is unable to do that.
Doesn’t matter anyway. The post is about what an awful person O’Hair was and she’s the closest the atheists have to a hero.
Yes, if they had a “Mother Teresa,” they wouldn’t be making movies about a child-abuser.
It could have something to do with how religious businesses use their money. As they are supposed to be non-profit, have tax exemptions that most businesses do not receive and must be seen to use their profit for the benefit of society, it makes sense to build hospitals that will receive funding from governments, and if a private hospital is well administrated there is no reason it will not turn a healthy profit.
Catholic based hospitals are a leading health care company in the USA and one in six patients receive care in a Catholic institution.
So, where are all the atheist hospitals?
The atheist hospitals are mostly in China.
When atheists ask us for solid proof of Christianity I think the abundance of Christian hospitals and charity organisations and the lack of atheist foundations speaks for itself. Of course, they only want a certain kind of proof. The kind they can refute. So this card is always sadly left unplayed.
John,
And her son was such a disappointment to her. After all the indoctrination hard work…
William J. Murray
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Murray
Murray became a Christian in 1980. Learning of his conversion, his mother commented: “One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. He is beyond human forgiveness.”
Dave
Geeze. Tough broad.
BbBennett,
With an accent like that, you sound like you’re from Jersey.
On a totally unrelated note.. I am watching the NASCAR race today.
So cool that they start the race with a prayer (and it is televised!), and the chaplain of the track actually mentioned Jesus’ name.
This is my first year as a NASCAR fan. Been an NFL fan forever, but got tired of the junk.
Go Trevor Bayne!
Dave
… and she was brutally murdered
… By atheists.
Not the point.
Agreed.
You brought it up.
And how do you know the murderers were atheists?
http://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/waters-david.htm
It’s too bad for Mike that she wasn’t killed by members of Jerry Falwell’s Church.
Yeah–now he’s furiously Googling to find out if David Waters was actually a Romanian Pentecostal. 😉
Atheism is “not the point” anyway.
I would have asked what the point is but it’s probably none of my business.
Well, it’s Sunday so he’s probably busy bumping crappy old posts no one but a few grumpy God haters read the first dozen times they were published and mocking Wally and CS somewhere.
Still not the point.
Hm… You don’t want to talk about the murder any more? 🙂
As I’ve asked before … what’s wrong with murder?
~CQW
“An Atheist believes a hospital should be built instead of a church…”
Indeed, and a Christian actually goes out and builds both.
🙂
Let’s see…
In my town there is Saint David’s hospital, Saint Jude Hospital, Saint Mary’s, Saint Vincent’s…
Hmmm…
There don’t seem to be any hospitals named after atheists.
I did live in a town a while back that got taken over by atheists and they changed the name from Saint Francis hospital, to Mercy hospital.
We’ve got a St. Vincent, too! (And a St. Joseph…)
Very strange coincidence.
Those dog gone Christians do seem to get around now, don’t they?
If they circulate a petition to rename that hospital “Saint M. M. O’Hair” you should sign it!
It would be riotously funny to hear the answer given to the question, “Who is this Saint O’Hair?”
Hey! I just had another idea!
Let’s name abortion clinics after atheists!
“The Sanger Planned Parents-of-dead-Children Clinic”
Why not? The Godless already have articles like this one, ready to repost: https://rewire.news/article/2015/08/20/false-narratives-margaret-sanger-used-shame-black-women
Now we can just wait for the movie.
“Saint Bertrand Russell Oasis of Death”
I’m still reading through the Margaret Sanger article.
*snickers*
It’s hard to write satire better than that.
We can’t argue with the contents of a viral video.
Also, when someone explains that–yes, so and so says lots of racist things–but she’s not a RACIST racist. Just a small-r racist.
…can’t argue with that.
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members..” – Margaret Sanger, Not-A-Racist
https://genius.com/Margaret-sanger-letter-from-margaret-sanger-to-dr-cj-gamble-annotated
Oh, the author covers that quote in this dissertation! 🙂
She was saying, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population” [because that’s not what we’re trying to do].
I read it.
They have a point that this quote is ‘out of context’. When you put it in the larger context of Sanger’s worldview, it makes sense. And she’s definitely a racist.
But was she a CAPITAL-R Racist?
We’ve got Baptist Hospital, Jewish Hospital, Sts. Mary & Elizabeth. And even the “secular”-sounding hospitals (Norton, Kosair, Audubon, etc) were started by St Paul’s Episcopal Church. Atheists don’t want religion in their government, but they don’t seem to mind it in their healthcare.
Except at Planned Parenthood where unborn children are cut to pieces and their butcher body parts are sold for coin.
I want to name Gas stations after George Bernard Shaw.
Atheists say things that have a nice sound to them but these things are meaningless if one thinks about them.
I work with charitable organizations all over the city I live and can’t think of a single one who was founded on the tenets of atheism.
Words are wind.
But, of course, if you’re an Atheist, wind is even more “real” than something like joy or love…
So… Maybe it’s consistent after all. :/
“Hateful, vulgar, immoral hag…”
…sounds like my first wife.
Oh! Did I love her dearly!!
Compelled by your religion to love such a creature.
So strange when atheists squander the opportunity afforded them by their religion to hate harpies like O’Hair.
You gotta admit, that hospital quote of hers was on point. I mean, who’s ever seen a hospital built by a religious organization?
Agreed.
When Netflix gets around to making a film about Fred Phelps (and they will…give it time…) it won’t be Christians talking about the great work Phelps did despite his minor ‘flaws’. It will be the atheists claiming such a film ‘exposes the truth of Christianity’.
The atheists are so hard up for heroes, they applaud Madalyn Murray O’Hair. It makes sense when you consider the other folks on the list are Lenin and Pol Pot.
Just thousands of thankful women and children in Syria.
http://www.thechristianbeat.org/index.php/news/1439-passion-2016-raises-over-800-000-to-build-hospital-in-syria
I can’t say that I saw it while it was being built, but last year I was blessed to be a very small part of raising the money for it 🙂