ICC Note: In the ongoing battle over the spiritual culture of the United States, atheists have stepped up attacks on public speakers, recently calling for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to delete a religious tweet. Governor Walker tweeted Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation, who issued the demand the tweet be removed, said the verse sounds “more like a threat, or the utterance of a theocratic dictator, than a duly elected servant.” Who knew that tweeting scripture could be so controversial for a public official? 
3/24/2014 United States (Fox News) – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes he can do all things through Christ, but an atheist group charges that he cannot do all things through Christ on his official social media platforms.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has demanded Walker remove posts from his official Facebook and Twitter feeds that read, “Philippians 4:13.”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” the verse reads.
The atheist outrage over the governor’s beliefs seems almost unbelievable.
“This braggadocio verse coming from a public official is rather disturbing,” FFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Baker wrote in a letter to the governor. “To say, ‘I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me,’ seems more like a threat, or the utterance of a theocratic dictator, than a duly elected civil servant.”
They accused the governor of misusing his authority to “promote not just religion over non-religion, but one religion over another in a manner that makes many Wisconsin citizens uncomfortable.”
The atheist outrage over the governor’s beliefs seems almost unbelievable.
I reached out to Walker’s office, and his staff told me the governor has absolutely no plans to remove anything.
“Governor Walker will not remove the post on his social media,” press secretary Laurel Patrick told me. “The verse was part of a devotional he read that morning, which inspired him, and he chose to share it.”
I can’t seem to recall a tweet generating such histrionics from an atheist group. Normally, they reserve that sort of faux fury for the Baby Jesus or a high school football prayer.
The FFRF said Walker has a responsibility to “uphold the entirely godless and secular U.S. Constitution.”
“It is improper for a state employee, much less for the chief executive officer of the state, to use the machinery of the State of Wisconsin to promote personal religious views,” they wrote.
The governor’s office clearly disagrees.
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