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In reply to the discussion: Would you vote for an atheist president?Definition of atheism:lack of belief in the existence of god [View all]JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,441 posts)91. Yes, if the atheist is a Democrat.
I probably wouldn't care for an atheist Republican or Libertarian.
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Would you vote for an atheist president?Definition of atheism:lack of belief in the existence of god [View all]
yortsed snacilbuper
Aug 2016
OP
How would one really know who is an atheist? Many of the people who say they are Christian are not.
glennward
Aug 2016
#157
YES! I doubt such a person would win in this country, unfortunately. n/t
Buckeye_Democrat
Aug 2016
#2
Christian privilege makes this a semi-legitimate q'n. We nearly elected a Jewish Prez this year. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#4
Explain if you have the time. And the spelling is "privilege". . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#61
I wrote "if you have the time" so that you could have a graceful exit from an ambiguous non-post. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#114
Really. Hard to know if you were being sarcastic, serious, or ironic.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#132
If that was all, just say so when invited to do so. That's simplest and best.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#138
I grant you the last word. . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#149
Oddly enough, I think the concept of privilege is being trivialized and minimized
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#146
I, too would prefer one. I can't see bowing and scraping before a fairy tale deity as
Francis Booth
Aug 2016
#9
Absolutely. Mormonism has always been outside of "mainstream" American Christianity....
Moonwalk
Aug 2016
#89
I don't think it hurt him early on, but once people started to really look at LDS belief
LongtimeAZDem
Aug 2016
#90
It'd be refreshing to have a candidate that didn't suck up to the fairy tale crowd.
NightWatcher
Aug 2016
#21
is it?, "Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2]
Demonaut
Aug 2016
#37
of course I grabbed the first lines in wiki, and a short response will not resolve
Demonaut
Aug 2016
#52
How about opening YOUR mind before making a negative blanket statement about atheists.
Avalux
Aug 2016
#69
Not true at all. If you don't believe in santa, the tooth fairy, unicorns, does that
lindysalsagal
Aug 2016
#41
Could say agnostic pres would be wishy-washy, indecisive, fence sitter, unwilling to act. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#62
Yes. Especially one that does not embrace the concept of "end times" and the rapture.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2016
#34
Religion, spirituality, and morality are all very different thing that are often confused
AgadorSparticus
Aug 2016
#56
We apply a religious test even though The Constitution clearly prohibits it. But it's the voters,
brewens
Aug 2016
#64
Maybe. If the person was tolerant of theists, I wouldn't hold it against a candidate
HereSince1628
Aug 2016
#73
Provided that it wasn't some asshole who mocked "invisible sky monsters" or similar,
Nye Bevan
Aug 2016
#76
Of course, words do not scare me I know what they mean and fear nothing from a Godless heathen.
Rex
Aug 2016
#81
Yes. I don't base my vote on the candidates religion or lack of religion. I do vote
madinmaryland
Aug 2016
#92
For primaries, I juggle candidate electability, energy, experience, policies, and political skill
struggle4progress
Aug 2016
#119
On the whole, the atheists I've know in my life have had more of a moral compass than
Native
Aug 2016
#150
It seems Tony Blair is a religous-right nutter, but he hid it while in office,
yortsed snacilbuper
Aug 2016
#164