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When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:20 pm
by _The Dude
A fun, speculative article about future minority presidents:
http://www.slate.com/id/2204472/When the lion lies down with the lamb, when the president is a Republican Muslim and the Democratic speaker of the House is a vegan Mormon lesbian, when the secretary of defense is a Jain pacifist from the Green Party, they will all agree on one thing: atheists need not apply.
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Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:26 pm
by _Droopy
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Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:29 pm
by _shamanthelamanite
Droopy wrote:Who gives a damn?
About you? No one gives a damn about you.
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:19 pm
by _cinepro
I tend to view religion (and theism) as what we do, and not what we say or pretend to believe, so I think it is likely we've already had a few atheist presidents who pretended they were Christian.
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:27 pm
by _The Dude
cinepro wrote:I tend to view religion (and theism) as what we do, and not what we say or pretend to believe, so I think it is likely we've already had a few atheist presidents who pretended they were Christian.
Anyone you can think of in the last 100 years? Or besides the founders?
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:17 am
by _John Larsen
The Dude wrote:cinepro wrote:I tend to view religion (and theism) as what we do, and not what we say or pretend to believe, so I think it is likely we've already had a few atheist presidents who pretended they were Christian.
Anyone you can think of in the last 100 years? Or besides the founders?
Taft was a Unitarian, and he was in all likelihood an agnostic. He qualifies as being in the last 100 years barely.
I think times are changing. I think an atheist may be president in about 20 years.
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:21 am
by _ajax18
What difference woudld it make if it were an atheist president?
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:40 am
by _Danna
ajax18 wrote:What difference woudld it make if it were an atheist president?
Didn't W have a hard time believing an atheist could be even a patriotic citizen?
Anyway, the rest of the world could rest a little easier knowing the prez didn't have some crazy apocalyptic views.
I have a hard time seeing Clinton (Bill) as anything other than a Xtian of convenience.
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:44 am
by _Sethbag
Danna wrote:ajax18 wrote:What difference woudld it make if it were an atheist president?
Didn't W have a hard time believing an atheist could be even a patriotic citizen?
It was his dad.
Re: When will an Atheist be president?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:06 am
by _antishock8
I would say Jefferson was our first Atheist President.