Posted on 04/20/2015 9:19:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Imagine a president of the United States proclaiming in his or her inaugural address, “I do not believe in God. I do not believe in a hereafter…There is no hope, save in ourselves.” If something like that ever happens, writer Jeffrey Tayler’s dream will have come true.
Tayler, who routinely trashes religion for the liberal online magazine Salon, complained in a Sunday article that several recent announcements of presidential candidacies have brought about “a media carnival featuring, on both sides, an array of supposedly God-fearing clowns and faith-mongering nitwits groveling before Evangelicals and nattering on about their belief in the Almighty.” He called on the media not to let the candidates “get away with God talk without making them answer for it.”
Given the virtual certainty of several more devout aspirants joining the 2016 race, Tayler acknowledged that “rationalists can contemplate a depressing, even infuriating, 19-month run-up to the election.”
From Tayler’s piece (bolding added):
Professing belief in a fictitious celestial deity says a lot about the content of a person’s character, and what sort of policies he or she would likely favor. So, we should take a look at those who have announced so far…Rand Paul…is officially a “devout” Christian, but he has subtly hinted that he really does not believe...
With the dapper Florida Sen. Marco Rubio we move into the more disturbing category of Republicans we might charitably diagnose as “faith-deranged”…
[Rubio] convert[ed] from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism and then back again…[but] Rubio cheats on the Pope with a megachurch in Miami called Christ Fellowship. As religion and politics blogger Bruce Wilson points out, Christ Fellowship is a hotbed of “demonology and exorcism, Young Earth creationism, and denial of evolution”…
Yet of the Republicans, the most flagrant irrationalist is clearly Texas junior Sen. Ted Cruz…Cruz pandered fulsomely to the faith-deranged by choosing to announce at Liberty University, that bastion of darkness…Liberty promises a “World Class Christian education” and boasts that it has been “training champions for Christ since 1971” – grounds enough, in my view, to revoke the institution’s charter and subject it to immediate quarantine until sanity breaks out…
The sole Republican candidate unbound by religion’s “mind-forged manacles” appears to be the little-known [former IRS commissioner] Mark Everson…
And what of the (so far) sole Democratic contender for the White House?...The diversity of characters [in Hillary Clinton’s announcement video] bodes well, though, for the faith-averse; she could not get away with ranting about the Bible unless she wanted to alienate such folk.
Yet Hillary does believe. Not only that, she claims to have grown up in a family elbow-to-elbow with none other than the Almighty: “We talked with God, ate, studied, and argued with God”…
…[W]ith the ex-pastor Mike Huckabee and the Roman Catholic Jeb Bush…rationalists can contemplate a depressing, even infuriating, 19-month run-up to the election. Reporters should…not allow any of these potential commanders-in-chief to get away with God talk without making them answer for it…
Here are some questions journalists might ask...
So, if you accept the Bible in its totality, do you think sex workers should be burned alive (Leviticus 21:9) or that gays should be put to death (Leviticus 20:13)? Should women submit to their husbands, per Colossians 3:18?...Will you call on Congress to repeal the Thirteenth Amendment and reinstate slavery, since the Bible, in 1 Peter 2:18, de facto sanctions the horrific practice and demands that slaves submit to their “masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel?”…
Atheists…can dream of a candidate (and future president) who will, one day, say “I do not believe in God. I do not believe in a hereafter...We have to…realize that, barring interference from forces of nature beyond our control, everything we humans achieve, or fail to achieve, depends on us. There is no hope, save in ourselves.”
We need a president who will acknowledge that. And we should settle for nothing less.
And most atheists are God hating, classless, hate mongering, self righteous, opinionated a-holes. When an atheist is in a life and death situation do they call upon the great vacuum to give them strength and hope or as I suspect is the case, do most suddenly find religion?
And that attitude is exactly why his dream will remain just that.
Keep talking Atheists, the Christian right is rising up as a formidable force as the silent majority ready to unite and speak as one voice standing with Ted Cruz.
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near Jeff when he meets his maker..let’s hope its sooner rather than later..all of these Atheist pigs claim to not believe in God, but when they are given that diagnosis that they have 2 weeks to live they will beg God to save their sorry behinds
Christian numbers are taking a beating here too just like in Europe. At east among the under 34 crowd. It concerns me. A third of my nephews and nieces have no problem with fruit marriage, but one of them goes to church. go figure.
we need this election.
I love when atheist heads explode. over tim tebow, over Cruz.
My dream would be to have Cruz win the presidency and have Tebow over for dinner and consultation :)
I know a few atheists/agnostics and as long as we don’t talk religion, we get along rather well. However, I noticed that every one of them has a rather miserable life. One is estranged from most of her family. Another one has two kids in prison. I keep thinking if they had God in their lives, things might be better for them. The 2 kids in prison might not be there.
The under 35 crowd has been indoctrinated by the media and the schools for the last 30 or so years..
Tim Tebow for Ted Cruz ?
Let’s wait and see.
The Atheist hath said “ there is no God “ then, when they take a dirt nap they find out real quick that the Christian were right all along.
From their words and actions on homosexual marriage, I’d say Ted Cruz is the only God fearing candidate in the group.
I don’t see any good reason to give these people any attention on Free Republic. Why did you post it?
I often wonder, when Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s atheist followers came for her and her family with the strangling cords, chainsaws and sledge hammers, if her last words were...”OH MY GOD!” or “OH MY ME!”
Just another atheist bigot.
After an islamonazi enemy agent of Satan, a simple atheist would be a significant improvement.
I’ll aver this about atheists. You are openly declaring that we all have only one quarter at the video game that you believe is life. Then shouldn’t you do it better than everybody else? You’re guaranteeing that’s there’s no chance of redemption?
At your funeral you’ll be all dressed up and no place to go. If we’re wrong we lose nothing. If you’re wrong you lose everything.
“There is no hope, save in ourselves.”
Just one day on this planet, watching the unfolding disaster and mayhem and skimming the latest Drudge headlines is enough to tell me humanity is utterly incapable of saving itself. And if we are what we’ve been waiting for (as the Kenyan claimed) all is lost.
As Paul warns us, such men are deranged and sometimes they let us know it.
I think that’s what really attracts a lot, the vast majority of atheists to be atheists.
Hurling the misplaced-superiority, ultra-consdescending insults at others. They seem to really get off on that.
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