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No Atheists (Still) Need Apply
Washington Post ^ | Susan Jacoby

Posted on 12/28/2006 4:15:11 PM PST by quesney

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To: Freedom_no_exceptions
In that case, my election-day policy is "atheists only."

OK...fair enough.At least we each know where the other stands.

21 posted on 12/28/2006 5:19:46 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: quesney
speaking openly about atheism works to dispel the notion that atheists have horns.

Oh yeah, we tried atheism in the French, Russian, and Chinese Communist revolutions, and you remember how well that worked out.

I trust an atheist in public office to have deep issues with his earthly father, perverting his ability to understand his heavenly Father.

An atheist is someone who seeks to replace God with . . . himself. I think that shows a poor understanding of the qualifications demanded by the job.

22 posted on 12/28/2006 5:20:21 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Gunny Gene
Good policy. Silence is my first choice, then if I am nagged for an opinion, I politely explain that it's not their personal business what I believe or don't believe. I even did this in high school, and some teachers took it as arrogance -- to have an opinion and keep it to yourself. (Oh my!)

As for what people think of us, take a lesson from my dear old English teacher:

"When you are young, you worry what others think of you. When you are older, you don't. When you are really old, you realize that nobody is thinking of you."
I suppose I just proved him wrong in a way, the old dingbat....
23 posted on 12/28/2006 5:20:45 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Old Professer
Why would anyone want to make a point of being an atheist unless he wants to start a fight?

QED.

24 posted on 12/28/2006 5:20:56 PM PST by Wormwood (I'm with you in Rockland)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions

Can Buddhists or Jews vote in these elections or run as candidates? Is there a prohibition just against atheism? I would have guessed you would have had to be a Muslim, but I'm wrong a lot.


25 posted on 12/28/2006 5:25:39 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Old Professer

Well, couldn't an atheist who believed in personal integrity and who thought being reasonable was important or even a duty AND who thought it was reasonable to be an atheist -- couldn't such a person not only be one but be willing to say s/he was one?


26 posted on 12/28/2006 5:28:26 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Gay State Conservative

This thread kills me. You fools would vote for someone of 'religion' over someone who has proven themselves. The bible thumping is annoying at best.


27 posted on 12/28/2006 5:29:34 PM PST by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions

(I catch up on sleep at work, like all decent people ...)


28 posted on 12/28/2006 5:30:16 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Mad Dawg

Of course, I assume these elections are limited only to Muslim males. Jews (and atheists) are officially banned from Saudi Arabia, and Buddhists may be as well (at best, grudgingly tolerated). My original point was to use an extreme example to show that religious tests for public office are not a good idea.


29 posted on 12/28/2006 5:31:43 PM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: SteveMcKing

Your English teacher apparently had some wisdom. Good to know that it was passed on to at least one of his/her? students.

Have a good , and interesting, life.


30 posted on 12/28/2006 5:32:42 PM PST by Gunny Gene
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To: ShadowDancer
This thread kills me.

This thread (and the myriad just like it) makes me wonder why I bothered giving the GOP my money and support for so long.

31 posted on 12/28/2006 5:32:56 PM PST by Wormwood (I'm with you in Rockland)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions

10-4


32 posted on 12/28/2006 5:33:52 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: Mad Dawg
(I catch up on sleep at work, like all decent people ...)

Then YOU'RE the one I want in public office! Better to sleep all day than rob us of our freedoms and loot our paychecks : )

33 posted on 12/28/2006 5:35:14 PM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: Wormwood

Yep, that's why I don't.


34 posted on 12/28/2006 5:36:05 PM PST by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions
My original point was to use an extreme example to show that religious tests for public office are not a good idea.

You needn't bother---the Founding Fathers understood that religious tests were complete crap over 200 years ago.

If someone still fails to understand that such a practice is an odious affront to our Republic, then they are probably immune to reason.

35 posted on 12/28/2006 5:36:18 PM PST by Wormwood (I'm with you in Rockland)
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To: sodpoodle; metmom; Dr. Eckleburg
agnostics... Just today I read that the word was invented by Aldous Huxley. He and others gave financial support to Charles Darwin with the express purpose of creating a new humanist religion.
36 posted on 12/28/2006 5:36:36 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the Cross)
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To: 1000 silverlings

Seriously, why do you care?


37 posted on 12/28/2006 5:37:56 PM PST by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: ShadowDancer
This thread kills me. You fools would vote for someone of 'religion' over someone who has proven themselves. The bible thumping is annoying at best.

I'm no "bible thumper",my friend.A belief in some power or being greater than him/herself...or the willingness to acknowledge the possibility that such a power/being exists..is but one of many requirements that I have before I give a candidate my vote.

IMO,atheism....the absolute conviction that there's no God...indicates a breathtaking,and disturbing,lack of humility.

That bothers me...a lot.It doesn't seem to bother you.C'est la guerre.

38 posted on 12/28/2006 5:38:52 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: ShadowDancer

Thought people would be interested where and how the term originated. No need to get your panties in a tight


39 posted on 12/28/2006 5:39:13 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the Cross)
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To: All

Thomas Jefferson:

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
 


40 posted on 12/28/2006 5:42:04 PM PST by EdJay (A)
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