"Unfortunately, I think any person who did that would have a difficult time winning. Actually, I don't believe that there is such thing as an atheist because no respectable atheist would walk around with something in his pocket that said 'In God We Trust.'"
No need:
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I guess that's why only 10% of Americans are holders of passports. Because no other country has need of such irrelevant, nay, pointless wording on their currency*; least of all Pounds Sterling here in the UK. And I know that right-wing Fundamentalist Christian Americans don't exist - here in the UK - because none of you would walk around with something in their pockets that has the image of the man whose discoveries completely annihilated Biblical Creationism, and thus the Bible itself. Scared of catching teh Atheism, much...?!
"Nonetheless, I think that those of us who understand that we live in a pluralistic nation, we've got to be the ones who tell people openly, in public, on national TV, that we cannot tolerate that, where people make decisions about people who don't have a faith."
'[On whether nonbelievers could be elected to public office.]' eh, Beaver Cleaver? Say hello to Nick Clegg:
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Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party. Because of the elections we in the UK had in 2010, we had a hung Parliament; and it's only by the grace - and MP numbers - of the Liberal Democrats led by him, that David Cameron's Conservative Party are in power. As part of this Lib-Con deal, Prime Minister Cameron appointed a number of LibDems into his coalition cabinet at 10 Downing Street, not least Nick Clegg appointed Deputy Prime Minister.
PROTIP: Unlike you lot in the US, we in this country actually have a state religion: the Church of England; the basis of modern Protestant Christianity. Nick Clegg has openly admitted he's an avowed Atheist. His constituents - voters - certainly had no problem about if this particular nonbeliever 'could be voted into office'. The result? Not only 'could' he be elected to public office, he was.
'Could'? [/Spartan Laconic Wit]. As Leonidas & co. did to Xerxes at Thermopylae, the above facts gives you an almighty kick in the bollocks, nay, Cleave-s your argument as surely as a Spartan sword did to one of the Persian 'Immortals'.
THIS IS REALITY! [/meme] >:D
*- Your ilk certainly walked around with something in your pockets that didn't say 'In God We Trust', up to 1954. The reverse of the 1952 issue $5 note:
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So - according to your logic - there was no such thing as an American before 1954. The above evidence proves that everyone in your country before then was an Atheist - even the hardcore Baptist Christians - thus by your own admission, they didn't exist.
I know the US isn't exactly blessed in the ancient history department, but to be so ignorant of your own post-war history (and by post-war, I'm referring to WWII, not Gulf War I), all I can say about you is this:
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