By ELAINE FRIEDMAN
HumanistNetworkNews.org
July 12, 2006
Larry Darby officially closed the Atheist Law Center on July 6. Despite the promising title of this former law firm, it -- and Larry Darby -- will not be missed by free thinkers. Darby is an example of the caveat that while most atheists are rational, simply calling oneself an atheist does not make one rational.
Darby is a former candidate for Alabama attorney general who lost in the Democratic primary but won most of North Alabama. Many wonder if his sudden embrace of Christianity is simply political posturing.
As first detailed in an HNN article in 2005, Darby not only "supported" atheism but promoted anti-Semitism and white supremacy. His "activism" culminated in his hosting of the controversial Holocaust denier David Irving, who is currently serving three years in an Austrian prison for Holocaust denial, on July 6, 2005. Closing the Atheist Law Center exactly one year after hosting Irving cannot be a mere coincidence.
While Darby continues to rant against the "agents of Judeo-Marxism" and "Jewish idolatry," he has, thankfully, found Jesus Christ. In a rambling press release in which he decries the "tyranny" of President Lincoln for denying states' rights (to own slaves, ostensibly) and quotes from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (despite its discrediting years ago), Darby states "I agree with moral precepts put forth by Jesus of Nazareth and I am Christian in a sense that Jesus of Nazareth would approve."
This is one conversion experience we can rejoice in. As Austin Cline so cleverly put it, "No longer an atheist who denies the Holocaust and promotes White Supremacy alongside his anti-Semitism, Larry Darby is now just another Christian who denies the Holocaust and promotes White Supremacy alongside his anti-Semitism. As an atheist doing such things, he at least was unusual; now he's completely mundane and much less newsworthy. Things are looking up."
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