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Atheists Demand Apology from Alabama Troy University Chancellor

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The US Atheists have lambasted the chancellor of Alabama Troy University for using his public funded office to promote religion in a secular state of USA.

They are demanding an apology from the  university chancellor who suggested religion is fundamental to a functioning democratic society. 
Jack Hawkins, the chancellor of Alabama’s Troy University, sent his students and staff a video about "religious freedom" as part of an end-of-year message, AL.com reported.

The group strongly disagree with Hawkins that those who do not believe in God cannot be "moral, law-abiding citizens."

In the 90-second clip Clay Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, details a conversation he had with a Marxist economist from China, in which the other man said democracy works because people believe that "they aren’t just accountable to society, they’re accountable to God". 

Christensen then asks: "As religion loses its influence over the lives of Americans what will happen to our democracy?  … Because if you take away religion you can’t hire enough police."

David Silverman, the leader of American Atheists in a message published in AL.com said that a concerned student alerted them about the video clip, and writing on behalf of the student and the entire members of the group demanded apology from the chancellor:

"On behalf of the student who contacted us, the Alabama members of American Atheists, the thousands of atheists at Troy University, and the hundreds of millions of atheists worldwide who live productive, law-abiding lives without religion, we demand an apology from you for using the public university email system and your publicly funded position to disparage atheists and minority religious groups as well as perpetuating the discrimination and anti-patriotic sentiment against atheists in the United States."

He then went on to suggest that atheists statistically lead more fulfilling lives, before inviting Hawkins to attend the organisation’s annual national convention in Memphis in April, "to experience for yourself what atheism and atheists are like". 

Hawkins hasn’t lent any comment to the demand.



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