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A first: Obama administration meets with atheists
Houston Belief ^ | February 26, 2010 | Kate Shellnutt

Posted on 02/26/2010 9:05:10 PM PST by bogusname

Today the White House--which has hosted everyone from the Dalai Lama to dinner party crashers--welcomes a group it never has before: non-believers.

The Secular Coalition for America, a lobby group including atheists, humanists, nontheists and others, will meet with the Obama administration to discuss religious discrimination in government faith-based initiatives, military proselytizing and faith-healing.

It's the first time in history such a group has been invited to talk policy with presidential officials. Obama was also the first president to mention nonbelievers in an inaugural address.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atheists; meeting; obama
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1 posted on 02/26/2010 9:05:10 PM PST by bogusname
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To: bogusname

Communists >are< athiests.


2 posted on 02/26/2010 9:07:54 PM PST by unkus
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To: bogusname

A first? Not even Bill Clinton?


3 posted on 02/26/2010 9:09:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: unkus

That’s right.


4 posted on 02/26/2010 9:09:43 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: unkus
Liberty <-> Christianity

5 posted on 02/26/2010 9:10:07 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Nah, even Monica was a Jew.


6 posted on 02/26/2010 9:10:16 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: bogusname

Athiests don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.


7 posted on 02/26/2010 9:10:20 PM PST by Patrick1
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To: bogusname

Muslem president meets with atheists, both anti God, just from a different angle.


8 posted on 02/26/2010 9:10:58 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: Gene Eric

“Liberty <-> Christianity”

Right on!


9 posted on 02/26/2010 9:12:46 PM PST by unkus
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To: SJackson; onyx

Ping


10 posted on 02/26/2010 9:13:07 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: bogusname

Is he scheduled to meet with Christians?


11 posted on 02/26/2010 9:13:22 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: Patrick1

Yeah, they’ll believe anything but the truth.


12 posted on 02/26/2010 9:13:53 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: doc1019

Do you mean people who use that title or those of us who are actually saved? LOL


13 posted on 02/26/2010 9:15:36 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: bogusname

Birds of a feather flock together.

0bama is neither Christian or Muslim. He doesn’t believe in God , never has, never will. He believes in government.


14 posted on 02/26/2010 9:21:45 PM PST by A message
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To: bogusname

Obama would turn into flame if a true Christian were in he presents.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 9:21:57 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: doc1019

You know, no kidding, he does have a noticeable reaction when someone occasionally says something true in his presence. Obama will eventually be put to flame when he’s finally in Christ’s presence.


16 posted on 02/26/2010 9:30:03 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: bogusname

athiest ping


17 posted on 02/26/2010 9:30:35 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: bogusname

One of the attendees was that creep Michael Neudow (sp).


18 posted on 02/26/2010 9:35:22 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: gleeaikin

Are you serious? There are atheists giving atheist pings? :-O


19 posted on 02/26/2010 9:35:36 PM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: bogusname

Amen! Either flames or 23 virgins …guess what I’m thinking.


20 posted on 02/26/2010 9:50:51 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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