"I would worry if she were atheist" [View all]

[RussBLib]

So the South Carolina Director of the Department of Social Services, Lillian Koller, is under pressure to resign.

SC Gov Nikki Haley and Republican State Senator Katrina Shealy get into a tiff about whether or not Koller is an atheist. Koller is actually Jewish.

Shealy goes on to say,

"I don't give a flying flip what the Director is...Well that is not true either, I would worry if she were atheist but I was told she wasn't..."

So, what is it about being an atheist that would negatively affect someone's job performance?

We have a long way to go in the south before atheists are recognized as decent, reasonable, moral people. If anything, atheists are even more decent, reasonable, and moral than most of today's Christians, if we consider the GOP to be symptomatic of Christianity today. Getting people to realize that is going to take some time, and some persuasive atheists.

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