Hostility to religion often looks quite foolish these days

WorldNetDaily is reporting a story that boggles the mind. Most religions encourage the propigation of their beliefs to others. Sometimes this is done ways that are less than acceptable. Often though it is done very tactfully. The Gospel tract is one of those ways that can be very low key and discreet. A simple offer of something to read. Accepting the tract, reading the tract and believing the words on the tract are all optional. Some who are hostile to all or specific religions, though, go berserk even at this simple offering. You know, the Michael Newdow types.

I have seen some very creative tracts. Apparently, somebody has come out with one that resembles a $1 million dollar bill yet has the gospel on the back. WND reports of a man in a wheelchair offering what service he can to God was passing out these $1 million dollar tracts when a secret service agent stops him and threatens him with arrest for distributing counterfeit money. In addition, the secret service confiscated over 8000 of these tracts.

It gets worse. When a Christian groups asks a judge to order the return of the tracts, the judge rules against it. Bascially, this is both a ridiculous and hostile scenario for the following reasons:

• There is no actual $1million dollar bill in our currency
• The bills have clear diffences to real currency including the gospel on the back (sheesh, and they complained about "In God we Trust")
• The legal test is whether a reasonable person would be deceived (let's see it's a 1 million dollar bill and being given away free. Yeah, I can see somebody falling for it)
• Toys 'R Us has been selling 1 million dollar bills for years.
• Most businesses won't take bills over a $50 so what is the concern?

This is so blatantly hostile to a religious group that it out to be quite embarrassing to even the most stringent anti-religious person. Why do I post about this? To point out how low some will go to harrass religion. Some often wonder why religious groups are so aggressive to protect their rights. This is case in point at how things would be as the "norm" if not aggressively defended against.