Yes, I'm an atheist

The HR chick at hubby's job is a devoted xtian.  She knows we're atheists.  Yet she still insists on sending me religiously themed emails, which I immediately forward to friends and relatives who might appreciate them more than I do.  She's apparently among the large majority of xtians who think that only xtians have morals, good behavior and a conscience.

So this last bit of garbage was just too much.  I've already deleted it (after replying to her and CCing hubby and OtherSteve), but the gist of it was thusly:

A Marine on the GI Bill was taking a philosophy course from a professor who was "an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU" (for the record, I think the ACLU are generally a bunch of radical crackpots).  So one day in class, the professor looks up at the ceiling and says "god, if you really exist, you have fifteen minutes to prove it".  Ten minutes go by, and nothing happens...until the Marine in the front row gets up and cold-cocks the professor.  When the professor comes to, he asks the Marine why he did that.  The Marine replies "To prove to you that god exists.  God was too busy protecting the soldiers in Iraq than to bother proving himself to people who have the right, because of soldiers like me, to say stupid stuff that isn't true."

And the HR chick closed out this laughable nonsense with "God bless the Marines!"

I'm really insulted.  Not only because of her clear views on atheism, as expressed by this garbage, but also because she *knows* hubby and I are atheists, and she apparently thinks that by sending me this trash I will magically "see the error of my ways" and immediately run to the nearest church and ask forgiveness.

I must say that I am generally much more tolerant than hubby is on this issue.  I'm more than happy to let other people practice their beliefs as they see fit, as long as they leave me alone--the "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" argument.  Hubby, on the other hand, thinks anyone who believes in god is a moron, and should be told so forcefully.  I only adopted hubby's POV this time because I've been putting up with her sending me this garbage for the last two years.  I've politely asked her, more than once, to stop sending me this crap.  I've put up with it for as long as I have because the stuff she sends me is generally harmless...Aesop's fable type stuff told from the POV that "god is speaking", stuff like that.  But when she's been told, repeatedly, that hubby and I *do not believe in god*, and when the frosting on the cake is her crowing about "stupid stuff that isn't true", that's just too much.

For the people who read this who are Christian, again, let me reiterate I'm perfectly tolerant of others' belief systems as long as they leave me to my own devices.  But having my nose so tauntingly rubbed in crap does nothing to improve my disposition.

Here's the actual email I got from the HR chick

Should have posted this the first time...forgot I still had it in my Sent folder. A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.   One day the professor shocked the class when he came in.  He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 'God if you are real then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 min.' The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.  Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am GOD, I'm still waiting.' It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.  The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, 'What in the world is the matter with you? 'Why did you do that?' The Marine calmly replied, 'GOD was too busy today protecting America 's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So He sent me.' The classroom erupted in cheers! THIS IS GOOD, KEEP IT GOING....  The other thing that gets me is that apparently atheist = ACLU member.