[Awestruck]

well liberal atheists offend ME so we're even.

[Nea Wood]

Reagan once said that he didn't see how anyone could be President without having been an actor first. He was kidding, obviously, but I see this as similar. Bush was merely giving his opinion, based upon his experience in office.

[navygal]

I am offended that they are offended.

[mtntop3]

Those who disdain the Lord God invariably have a replacement: materialism; a secular figure such as Marx; themselves.

[xzins]

Bush's comments were "divisive," they say, and an insult to those who don't believe in religious creeds or a deity.

The last I checked, any president is still a US citizen with the right of free speech.

If all the atheists in the country want to use it as a reason for not voting for the President...fine. Odds are all 2000 of them weren't voting for him anyway. Atheists tend toward socialism.

[aruanan]

An atheist group is criticizing President Bush for saying he can't see how one can be president without a relationship with the Lord. Bush's comments were "divisive," they say, and an insult to those who don't believe in religious creeds or a deity.

Screw em. Their position is intellectually indefensible anyway.

[cooldog]

I'm an atheist, and I'm not offended at all. I believe that he is sincere, and I admire that.

OTOH, if that P-O-S Clinton said something like that, I would be VERY offended, since there's no way in h%ll he could possibly mean it.

[G Larry]

An "offended athiest" is a good thing.

Kind of like a light in a burglar's eyes.

[Paulus Invictus]

What percentage of the population are athiests? Are we talking about a tiny splinter group here? Answer: Yes! What percentage of athiests voted for Kerry? Should President Bush be concerned and apologize. I think not. Today the Supremes knocked out one athiest with an attitude, so the Prez can say whatever he wants. Someone, usually a leftist, is always going to find something he says offensive. They beg to be ignored.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - In a word, "tough" - Survive

[Puckster]

And just how can't an atheist take these comments offensively being antipodal to Bush's faith?

[Brimack34]

If these people do not believe in GOD, Why does he scare them so much?

[carl in alaska]

"President Bush goes far beyond keeping his faith to himself. He's trying to turn our government into a 'religion bully' where the state enforces religious belief and religious correctness. That's un-American," he concluded.

What is this guy talking about? He has obviously never lived in a country where the government bullies its citizens. Our government is not being turned into a "bully" that enforces religious belief and correctness. This is simply not happening. Leaving "under God" in the pledge of allegiance is not enforcement of religious belief. Those words have been in the pledge for fifty years and nobody complained until a few years ago.

Finally I have to say that Ellen Johnson does not know much about our constitution when she says we have a "constitutional commitment to separation of government and religion." There is no such commitment in our constitution to the kind of extreme and total separation of government and religion that these atheists and the ACLU advocate. It's just mind-boggling the way the ACLU wants to remove all references to religion from all government property in America. They remind me of the Stalin regime in the old Soviet Union that tried to remove all religion from the Soviet state. The ACLU has lost its collective mind, leading to their outrageously extreme efforts to remove a cross from the LA county seal and to remove a religious plaque from Grand Canyon National Park that was a gift from a group of nuns.

[mgc1122]

The whine and complaint of the godless is music to my ears.

[Quix]

Hello atheists--GET OVER IT.

You want an atheist country--Go to Russia. Better, Cuba. Even better, North Korea. Help yourself. Soonest, please.

[airborne]

I'd tell them to go to h*l, but I guess they don't believe in that either!

[The Wizard]

screw them all

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Bush's Remarks on Religion Offends Atheists - Good!

[sweetliberty]

Atheists offend me. Big deal.

[tob2]

Let them get over it!