Jul 18, 2012
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A minor league baseball team in Minnesota will change its name for one night to salute atheists.
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On Aug. 10th, the St. Paul Saints will become the Mr. Paul Aints. The team plans to cover the letter “S” in all Saints signs and logos. In addition, the players will wear special “Aints” jerseys and American Atheists president David Silverman will toss out the first pitch.
“We want to show that atheists can have fun,” said Minnesota Atheists president August Berkshire told USA Today. “We picked the name not as a political statement but just as something that was fun.”
So bashing the Christian faith is “fun”?
Derek Sharrer, the team’s general manager, told the Associated Press that the team has “no intention of mocking or making fun of anyone’s faith.”
The minor league team has traditionally hosted religious-themed events including Christian concerts. Sharrer said it would be “hypocritical” to tell atheists no.
The team is partly owned by actor Bill Murray. In 2010 they gave away a rotating Cro-Magnon/Charles Darwin bobblehead doll to salute the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” USA Today reported.
Atheists appear to be thrilled with the decision to rename the team. One blogger wondered fans would sing “Dog Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch, the newspaper reported.
Joe Soucheray, a writer for Twincities.com, addressed the issue in a column titled, “For this promo night, Saints’ inspiration isn’t at all divine.”
“Now, I realize that the Saints have always endeared themselves to wacky promotions, but I needed to know who in God’s name had such a severe brain meltdown that they came up with this one,” Soucheray wrote.
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if I cared about baseball, I'd be boycotting the St Paul saints for ever….-they def are the Aints as this is disgraceful….they really shouldn't even be singing our National Anthem….
It'll be interesting to see if anyone shows up at the game???
Why shouldn't atheists sing our national anthem?
Wow
You are disgraceful. Get a brain.
You do know that this stanza is part of the National Anthem–right???
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Yes, Carol. I would certainly not sing that part of the national anthem. When was the last time you heard that part of the anthem at a ball game?
They should change the last line of the National Anthem to "O'er the Grand Plu-to-cra-cy! And the hoooome, of the…..SLAVE."
if I cared about baseball, I'd be boycotting the St Paul saints for ever….-they def are the Aints as this is disgraceful….they really shouldn't even be singing our National Anthem….
You would have to be the whiniest pussy on he entire planet to consider this to be 'bashing the Christian faith'…
Geez, way to get your panties in a bunch. They do Christian-themed events at the park too, but they do one atheist event and you get all worked up. It's called equal access, they have just as much right to their event as the Christians do to theirs, and as any other religion would have if they wanted one as well. Christians don't get special privileges that others can't enjoy.
I don't see where Todd Starnes gets the idea that celebrating atheism is "bashing the Christian faith." I attend baseball games regularly and am occasionally subjected to a "faith night" or whatever. I think it's great that this one team is giving us one night to celebrate our lack of faith. Does anyone know how I can get a hold of an "Aints" jersey?
well said. Sadly, Starnes and the rest of the crowd who believe in "christian privledge" sees anything different from them as an attack on them.
If Starnes sees a dog sniffing another dog, he views it as 'bashing Christianity.'
If Starnes sees a dog sniffing another dog, he views it as 'bashing Christianity.'
I think you owe Todd Starnes an apology, Lewis. He would only get upset if the two dogs were male.
Geez, more twisted logic from Todd Starnes. Somehow promoting an Atheist night is "bashing the christian faith"?
What about when a team has a christian day? My team, the St. Louis Cardinals, hosts Christian Day once every year. Does that mean that night they are "bashing athiests"?
Good for this team to be inclusive of all people. Not just people Todd Starnes happens to like. You know what is really offensive? Todd Starnes. Always bashing what's different than him and considers inclusion of others an insult to himself and his beliefs. This guy has no logic whatsoever.
hmmm….This article hase been up for a few hours now. I figured there'd be more of Starnes' regulars here, foaming at the mouth with their eyes rolled up in their heads screaming "Obama did it"!
BUT…have they ever changed the name of the team and had jerseys made up for any faith-based event? I think not. Anyway, Protestants don't worship or pray to saints in the first place, and a sports team is not God, even though they are worshiped, so no skin off my Baptist nose. Have fun!
What a proper and timely concession to the fastest-growing group of people in the United States, according to recent surveys—NONBELIEVERS!
Can I get an "AMEN!" people? Praise the……popcorn.
R'amen!
R'amen!