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Thread #117438   Message #2547975
Posted By: Stringsinger
24-Jan-09 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Atheists: No 'so help me God'
Subject: RE: BS: Atheists: No 'so help me God'
Little Hawk, it's one thing to pick a fight for ideological or religious reasons but quite another to suppress non-believers which is the trend in US politics. You may not quite have this problem in Canada but I can assure you that it is a rampant disease here in the US and
those who protest against this are not cranks. We are only asking for equal representation which we do not get in our government. Not losing sleep over this issue is just stating a denial of the fact that this is an inherent problem here.

In Europe and other places, non-believers have a voice and are not silenced or suppressed by religious references in politics. If religious folk want to be given credence for their views, then they have to be open to the views of non-believers. This is pointedly not done in the supposedly most democratic country in the world. Denial does not address this issue. The absurd invocation given by Rick Warren should be enough to limn the problem.