Is he sure that Al Franken didn't already claim the year?

And people wonder why atheists sometimes become combative.

If you declare one year to be "the year of X," you don't get to do the same for the following year as well. Next year it's the Koran's turn, or the Bhagavad Gita's. That's how it works, Texas asshat.

@3 - There's a fair number of people who are sure the Rapture is going to happen any day now, and therefore don't care if the heathens have ourselves a Year of The God Delusion.

Well, holiest place on earth - aside from The Vatican, Mecca, the Church of The Nativity, The Ganges, Church of St. Mary of Zion, Jerusalem, Lhasa, Mt. Fuji, Tai Shan, Nazareth...

"Maybe we're getting away from ... the values found in the Bible".

We are indeed. Slavery, fathers sacrificing sons and a ban on bacon and shrimp. Those values were awesome and totally need to be got back to.

@5 - Nope, Flower Mound, Texas is holier than thou and all of them.

@ 5, and Independence, MO.

Who gets to formally declare the theme of a year? Is it enforceable? If so, what happens to those citizens who fail to rigorously observe the theme? I'm concerned that I may have inadvertently missed some important ones.

"Some redneck mayor from Bumretch, Nebrahoma makes idiot public statement, declaring something he has no authority to declare."

I thought AD 300 (approx) was the 'Year of the Bible"... no?

Well, I declare 2014 "The Year of Living Without Facebook". So there. Equally relevant.

Such a violent work of fiction!

@2 - You said it perfectly.

You want unrest? Then keep on throwing your goddamn Bible in our faces. Bigoted assholes.

"Flower Mound" sounds like a phrase from lesbian erotica.

"All at once there she was - Jasmine lay splayed on the divan, her flower mound bared, helpless to resist Drusilla's caressing fingers."

Fuck. Why does that shitrag mayor have to share a name with Tom Hayden, an activist I respect the heck out of?

Flower Mound? What the fuck does a name like that convey? A mound of flowers? That just doesn't sound right, like a gaggle of bees, or a flock of trees.

In any event, I respectfully suggest that Flower Mound rename their town leader's position from Mayor to Ayatollah. It seem more appropriate somehow.