Atheists face uphill climb with new political party [View all]
January 3, 2012
By Kimberly Winston
(RNS) How viable is a political party with the word “atheist” in its name?
Troy Boyle, a corporate legal representative for a finance company, thinks very viable. Last March, he and a friend founded the National Atheist Party, which they believe to be the first American political party organized on the belief that God does not exist.
Boyle, 45, got the idea to start the party while watching an interview with Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist and author of several “New Atheist” manifestos, including the best-selling “The God Delusion.” In the interview, Dawkins wondered why atheists did not organize to influence politics.
“It struck me like a bolt of lightning when he said it,” Boyle recalled. From his home in Elsmere, Ky., he started researching atheists in politics. “And I found nothing. So I picked up the gauntlet. I decided to start a political party.”
http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/atheists_launch_own_political_party_in_all_50_states1/
In case you may be wondering, I neither advocate for nor support this third party.
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