That Ad and Religious Repression

Harking back to that ridiculous Elizabeth Dole ad, I've taken the liberty of providing a transcript for the voice over and scenes, but I've also replaced the word "godless" with Jewish. It reads as follows:

Dole: I'm Elizabeth Dole and I approve this message.
Voice Over: A leader of the Jewish Americans PAC recently held a secret fundraiser in Kay Hagan's honor.
Typescript: 'Jewish Americans?'
[Cut-scene: Ellen Johnson, Executive Director Jewish Americans.]
Ellen Johnson: There was no Jesus.
[...]
Voice Over: Jewish Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras, took Jewish money. What did Kay Hagan promise in return?
Voice (not of Kay Hagan): There is no god!

Do as you're now tempted and start substituting other words in there too, such as "black", perhaps, or "homosexual". It's totally absurd. Paul Kurtz has taken the time to reprint the Humanist Manifesto he compiled in 1973 for this month's Free Inquiry magazine, to which he is the founder and editor in chief. Interestingly, written before the internet took off, he suggests: "Technology must, however, be carefully judged by the consequences of its use; harmful and destructive changes should be avoided. We are particularly disturbed when technology and bureaucracy control, manipulate, or modify human beings without their consent." Surely, this fits wetly under that category. For it's quarter-century age, the Manifesto holds up remarkably well. Is that necessarily a good thing, just like our reliving of Martin Luther King's speech is still culturally relevant? Perhaps this is different. Either way, I wholeheartedly scribe my signature alongside it.