"the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony. I couldn't see an atheist president turning the lights on"
Christmas = Christianity stealing the Pagan Winter Solstice festival. Also:
Jeremiah 10: 1-5 (QJV): 'Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.'
Ergo, Christmas is Atheist. NEXT!
"the basically Christian US holiday of Thanksgiving"
>Christian US holiday
[citation needed]
"Also the remembrance of the 911 victims was done in a big ceremony at the National Cathedral where the president spoke. That would be awkward."
During the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, there was a remembrance of those murdered in the 7/7 atrocity in London; just the day after the IOC's announcement that London had won the bid for the 30th Olympiad in 2005.
Whilst Queen Elizabeth II - who was present there - is head of the Church of England, it obviously wasn't awkward for her, during such as part of what is very much a secular event; no religion involved.
That segment was edited out of the coverage in the US. Or was that too Atheist for you?
@anevilmeme
"Imagine the fun of a US President leading a crowd reciting the Pledge but omitting the phrase "under God."
Imagine the fun of telling a fundie that a certain president - who is a devout Southern Baptist - has used the pre-1954 Pledge, which omits 'Under God', but is still valid: they'd implode at the paradox that represents for them.
PROTIP: That particular president is Jimmy Carter. So as you can see, o Religious Reich, there are non-fundie Baptists out there.
