This day back in 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son and granddaughter were murdered. She wanted to be remembered as an anarchistic atheist woman.
Posted Sep 29, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC
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I a fairly veteran atheist/antitheist and I was unaware that Madalyn Murray O'Hair was a person, or her story etc. I'll educate myself on this topic. Googled her death, that's fucked up man.
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America's Most Hated Woman on Netflix is a great watch too. If you search antitheists Madalyn Murray O'Hair you'll find I've posted stacks of video material about her. She might have been an abrasive, bolshy mare, but I'd have LOVED her. RJ
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Today was named International Blasphemy Day in her honour.
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I did not know this. Thanks. Yay, Madalyn! RJ
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I'm amazed that a left winger like Phill Donohue can claim to be in favor of free speech and not burst out laughing.
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When she and her family were murdered there was an immediate and cruel assumption it was because of her beliefs and activism implying she had it coming in some way. In fact the crime was committed for the simplest and oldest of reasons, greed. She was murdered for money. I lived in Austin at the time and remember it pretty well.
And weirdly, too many atheists instantly assume she was murdered by Christians - rather than one of her own... RJ
I never heard one say so but I wouldn't be surprised.
As an atheist it is unpleasant for me to say but I have met a lot of really, really awful atheists.
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