Who was bitching? He/she was just asking a normal question which happens to be an interesting topic. Your unprovoked overreaction diminishes your point and makes you look very unreasonable.
1. How the hell do you know that? You know for a FACT that no Atheist was fed to lions or burnt at the stake? Throughout the whole of HISTORY? I think what you meant to say was "no KNOWN atheist".
2. The point of this question is that a president would be a KNOWN Atheist president. In other words, everyone knows he's an Atheist and still votes for him, therefore "America" voting for an Atheist.
3. Is Richard Dawkins the president of Atheists? He's just the most famous one and made a point to bring Atheism and explain its validity to the masses. Would it be fair if I said that Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh were the Christian representatives?
3. Yes, it would be fair to say Bill O Riley and Rush Limbaugh were the representatives of Christianity. They'd say so themselves (knowing that their true god is Money)
2. Sure sure. The day that such an event happens will be the day the American populace looks up and says "Who gives a shit what god you do or don't believe in, fix our economy!" In the interim, I was presenting some information that the OP may not have considered. It's like Lincoln. He didn't "come out of the log cabin closet" but he's still a win for my team...
1. No KNOWN athiest of WHOM we ambiguously reference herein has ever been fed to lions or been burned at the stake. There, are you happy? Are my I's dotted and my T's crossed? Punctuation in place? Jesus Fucki...(oh, did that offend you? Sorry...Odin Motherfucking Runecaller).
No, you're right Casualcronie. The OP wasn't bitching...that comment was placed just so for future posters that (and there are posts on this website to validate my position) would whine about how Atheists are such an oppressed minority.
Minor point...during the 2008 Presidential Election, Current President Obama neither confirmed nor denied his personal religious convictions. In deed, he went to churches, quoted from the Quran and the Torah, and employed a number of pandering tactics to soothe the minds of the masses. On the extremist right, there was a lot of name-calling and accusations of his "muslim heritage". On the extremist left there was a complete dismissal of his religious affiliation in favor of simply "getting one of our guys in there". I submit that this was, at least in part, the first election not based in religion.
Yea ok, I'm not really uptight with these comments but if you're going to make a general statement like that fist one, you have to be specific, that's all I was saying. Saying "no atheist has ever been" makes it sound as if you know for a fact, which you don't. And if you're trying to prove a point, isn't using real facts that way to do that?
And I don't doubt that religion didn't play that big a part in the previous election. Maybe some presidents were secretly atheist in the past, the point is the rest of us didn't know which therefore has no effect either way.
My main point was to just ask why you were being so obviously emotional in your first comment, but you cleared that up.
Also, saying Jesus Christ doesn't offend me and I don't think it offends most Atheists. Most Atheists I know don't care about these controversial issues. We know that most of society is dead-set in its ways and most likely wont change. Say Merry Christmas all you want, doesn't bother me.
I HAVE to be specific? I don't HAVE to do anything but die. This whole site is a 4chan disguised as a means of giving advice. Sure, we sneak the truth in there every now and again, but who wants the whole truth? Bloodletting has come a long way, from the gladiatorial arena to the interwebz. I am simply Meridius to the Commoduses of the world (or is it Commodi?)
Emotional? Yes, I suppose disgust is an emotion.
Well, to set the record straight: Nixon-> Clinton= (not so) Closet Athiests.
Again your point like a flaccid penis, is useless and exhausted. No matter who was a closet atheist, the PUBLIC DID NOT KNOW about it.
That's like saying the Pope is actually an atheist. Are the people going to believe that? NO!
Everybody believed Clinton and Nixon were Christians, that's what mattered.
Question was: will the U.S have an atheist president?
NOT will the U.S have a closet-atheist president who tells everyone he's christian but really isn't?
Will the United States ever have an atheist president?
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Who was bitching? He/she was just asking a normal question which happens to be an interesting topic. Your unprovoked overreaction diminishes your point and makes you look very unreasonable.
1. How the hell do you know that? You know for a FACT that no Atheist was fed to lions or burnt at the stake? Throughout the whole of HISTORY? I think what you meant to say was "no KNOWN atheist".
2. The point of this question is that a president would be a KNOWN Atheist president. In other words, everyone knows he's an Atheist and still votes for him, therefore "America" voting for an Atheist.
3. Is Richard Dawkins the president of Atheists? He's just the most famous one and made a point to bring Atheism and explain its validity to the masses. Would it be fair if I said that Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh were the Christian representatives?
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3. Yes, it would be fair to say Bill O Riley and Rush Limbaugh were the representatives of Christianity. They'd say so themselves (knowing that their true god is Money)
2. Sure sure. The day that such an event happens will be the day the American populace looks up and says "Who gives a shit what god you do or don't believe in, fix our economy!" In the interim, I was presenting some information that the OP may not have considered. It's like Lincoln. He didn't "come out of the log cabin closet" but he's still a win for my team...
1. No KNOWN athiest of WHOM we ambiguously reference herein has ever been fed to lions or been burned at the stake. There, are you happy? Are my I's dotted and my T's crossed? Punctuation in place? Jesus Fucki...(oh, did that offend you? Sorry...Odin Motherfucking Runecaller).
No, you're right Casualcronie. The OP wasn't bitching...that comment was placed just so for future posters that (and there are posts on this website to validate my position) would whine about how Atheists are such an oppressed minority.
Minor point...during the 2008 Presidential Election, Current President Obama neither confirmed nor denied his personal religious convictions. In deed, he went to churches, quoted from the Quran and the Torah, and employed a number of pandering tactics to soothe the minds of the masses. On the extremist right, there was a lot of name-calling and accusations of his "muslim heritage". On the extremist left there was a complete dismissal of his religious affiliation in favor of simply "getting one of our guys in there". I submit that this was, at least in part, the first election not based in religion.
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But yea, no big deal.
Yea ok, I'm not really uptight with these comments but if you're going to make a general statement like that fist one, you have to be specific, that's all I was saying. Saying "no atheist has ever been" makes it sound as if you know for a fact, which you don't. And if you're trying to prove a point, isn't using real facts that way to do that?
And I don't doubt that religion didn't play that big a part in the previous election. Maybe some presidents were secretly atheist in the past, the point is the rest of us didn't know which therefore has no effect either way.
My main point was to just ask why you were being so obviously emotional in your first comment, but you cleared that up.
Also, saying Jesus Christ doesn't offend me and I don't think it offends most Atheists. Most Atheists I know don't care about these controversial issues. We know that most of society is dead-set in its ways and most likely wont change. Say Merry Christmas all you want, doesn't bother me.
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I HAVE to be specific? I don't HAVE to do anything but die. This whole site is a 4chan disguised as a means of giving advice. Sure, we sneak the truth in there every now and again, but who wants the whole truth? Bloodletting has come a long way, from the gladiatorial arena to the interwebz. I am simply Meridius to the Commoduses of the world (or is it Commodi?)
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Again your point like a flaccid penis, is useless and exhausted. No matter who was a closet atheist, the PUBLIC DID NOT KNOW about it.
That's like saying the Pope is actually an atheist. Are the people going to believe that? NO!
Everybody believed Clinton and Nixon were Christians, that's what mattered.
Question was: will the U.S have an atheist president?
NOT will the U.S have a closet-atheist president who tells everyone he's christian but really isn't?
franks red hot....i put that shit on everything.
Jesus, what's wrong with you?