Send in the Atheists

Interestingly enough, the Indy published an article a few years ago about someone (a Brit or Aussie?) who was bicycling around the world. He was quoted as saying he found most Americans to be friendly, but at the same time, were in his experience the most religious people in the world (or words to that effect).

Religiosity's roots suck hard at the substrate of fear. In the case of politicians, it's fear that the voting public will es-chew them like a really cheap cut of beef if they don't corroborate the public's dreams of existential security. Even religion needs a crutch, tisk.

Only Pete Stark in Congress confesses his atheism. Now, ya gotta be some kinda sophisticated to get elected to Congress, so it's reasonable to suppose that most members privately doubt the Daddy-in-sky Theory. That goes double, probably, for those that aspire to be President. So help me God, indeed. (What does that phrase actually mean, anyway?) Well, soul-selling starts early in a politician's life, so what can we expect....

Keep walking tall, Barney!

Give 'em hell, Dorothy! You're spot on.

There is a movie entitiled, "Send in the Clowns."

Dorothy F. McNeil's letter is 'spot-on'. Send in the Athiests because the Clowns are already there. They need to be replaced.

Sorry Durango, there is no movie called "Send in the Clowns," (unless you are thinking of the 1983 Hong Kong melodrama of that name. Sondheim wrote a nice tune with that title, however.

And I think your post was in support of keeping religion out of government, in that you say as much ("Dorothy F. McNeil's letter is 'spot-on'.") but the rest of it does it's damnest to say something completely different.

Bit of irony here:

"But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne" -Jesus- (Matthew 5, verse 34)

By the way, would a president not be confirmed if they were to not swear by this oath?

Is putting "in God we trust" a violation, or just something that offends militant atheists?

Also: Do you really think that all these politicians who go to church do so because they are part of a religion, or does it enter the realm of thought that maybe they do so to get votes?

"Barney, you are a natural born citizen, more that 35 years old, and highly qualified to be President of the United States because you are an atheist."

Simply because he is an atheist...Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, and other like-minded folks were atheists. Ironically, I voted for Harry Browne, libertarian candidate in 1996 and 2000 not because of the fact that he was an atheist, but because I believed he was the best choice to run the country.

If people would quit harping on their fears about other people's stated religious beliefs and look at why we are perennially at war, why are inner-cities are crimes zones, why our schools are producing dumbed-down kids who know rap lyrics but don't know the meaning of a subjunctive, perhaps we'd be in better shape.

I'm far more worried about the above problems than I am about "In God we trust", and since the decline of religious influence in our culture, where's the great utopia promised by the purveyors of the mantra that religion is the "opiate of the masses"? You won, now get over it.

Atheism is the utopiate of the elites!