Is There A Government? I'm Agin It
Illustration★★★There is but one thing in which infidels do agree, and that is, in their rejection of Christianity; though here, again, no two of them will agree as to their reasons for rejecting it. In this respect they remind us of the story of an Irishman who landed in New York on the crisis of an election, and—whether the process of naturalization was consummated on the spot, or Pat was required to personate some missing voter, we don’t know—but he was challenged to give a vote for or against the Government.
‘Is there a Government?” was the single question Pat asked. ‘“ Yes,” was the answer. ‘ Then,” cried he, with a flourish of his shillalah; “then I’m agin it!’
“Is there religion?” asks your average Free-thinker; “Is there a revelation? Then I’m agin it!”
Dr. Curry.
The point
Like an Irishman who opposed any government, unbelievers agree only in rejecting Christianity, however incoherent their own objections.