[How would you react to an atheist running for president?]
I wouldn't vote for him, DUH! Because I don't want my rights to freedom of religion taken away from me.
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You needn't be afraid, Dumdum, no one can take away your freedom to be a Christian in America. Though Christians try that trick on others, your right to be a deluded mental-weakling is assured in this country.
@Jocelyn
The answer is easily. The oath of office is found in the US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 and reads as follows
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Thus, you don't have to swear, you don't have to say "so help me God," and you don't have to use a Bible, if you don't want to.
Because I don't want my rights to freedom of religion taken away from me."
Your rights to freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly are, and have always been, in far greater danger from a government staffed by rightwing religious fundamentalists than from an atheist president.
Besides, you've already had some, and the world didn't automatically end.
I got a good laugh out of this post, but probably not for the same reason you atheists did.
God will NEVER let an atheist be the leader of this fair country. NEVER!!
This nation was established as a land of religous freedom and tolerance for BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS.
The rest of you can go to hell.
So, why should atheist in this country vote George Bush, following your logic?, or how would all those guys who voted JFK survive?
So, why should atheist in this country vote George Bush, following your logic?, or how would all those guys who voted JFK survive?
What? Quotes like these make me wonder wtf kids are learning in high school...
Oh and Big Chicken Dinner, treaty of Tripoli bitch.
this is motochic467's second outing. Has a nice Xian girl suddenly discovered the www?
Are you really this fucking stupid? A president can't take away your right to freedom of religion any more than a president can take away my freedom from religion. Read the fucking constitution!
Just for fun why don't you learn about the seperation of powers too? Learn what actually has to be done to add an ammendment to the constitution as well.
A presidential candidate realizes that what the majority of voters really wants is a Christian president, so what does he do? Hmm... now that's a tough one.
And will you assholes stop citing the constitution as if it's our own damn holy texts? It was written by fallible humans, not super-intelligent god-like beings. It's not perfect, because it is governmental in nature, and governments are never perfect. You treat it as if it's the über pwner of all the mad scribblings of humankind that there has ever been, geez.
Surely, because, you know, with Bush, being a born again, this is Jesusland, or when JFK was in the White House, America was known as the Vatican.
Most atheists wouldn't even try to take away your freedom to believe what you want. And even if they did, it wouldn't make it through Congress, and even if it made it through Congress the Supreme Court would take it down and rightfully so.
Remind me, motochic, which atheist president was it that made that "just a goddamn piece of paper" quip, again?
I'd vote for the atheist BECAUSE I know s/he would damn well make sure our rights and freedoms were intact. Unlike you, who would have every atheist, pagan, deist, and Christian who doesn't belong to your precious denomination, tied up and thrown in prison. Probably after having their tongues torn out with red-hot tongs and getting their bones broken.
I was going to explain that the 1st amendment, the one that they whine so much about because it keeps them from imposing their religious views on other people, also protects them from other people imposing their religious views on them, but I changed my mind.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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