‘We Are Stronger’: Atheists To Hold Massive Rally On National Mall Next Month

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58. As a self described atheist........

don't you think it's high time atheists are treated fairly? It's reported that atheists/agnostics make up about 20% of the population (and that doesn't include people who say they're religious or "spiritual" just to go along with the majority and not make waves) . Is there any other "minority" with numbers like that who AREN'T trying to get noticed politically? If atheists organize perhaps we can open up a new age of enlightenment where a belief in religious dogma isn't a requisite for holding public office. And if it happens to be a Presidential election year. so what? When IS a good time to be more militant in our quest for enlightenment?

I've had enough of being treated like a second class citizen simply because I have the intelligence to see through the thin vaneer of religious superstition. I think most atheists have studied the origins of religion far more than the religious themselves. I know more about the bible and the origin of christianity than my supposed "religious" family. Yet I'M the one looked down on by them. It's no mistake that the first lesson from the bible is "do not eat from the tree of knowledge". Religion doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.