My sympathies to American atheists

[muriel_volestrangler]

because that bastard Bush seems to have been working overtime in the past few days to exclude you from the nation.

"I don't see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord."

"We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom, and America will always be faithful to that cause."

"From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth."

"That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people."

"Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" - they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled. History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty."

"May God bless you, and may He watch over the United States of America."

So, if you don't have a faith (and ignoring the impossibility of them all being true), you can't be president, you don't care about freedom, rights, dignity or the value of humans, you don't contribute to the national character, and are historically directionless. Tough break.

I've heard less religion in church sermons.

[arwalden]

1. I Feel Nauseous! Shit Like That Makes Me Want To Hurl!

We already know what George HW thinks about atheists.

[fshrink]

2. For those who

ever wonder what Hitler was like. Here's a contemporary real-life approximation. For people who wonder how such a dangerous, half-crazy and stupid individual managed to access power and to pull the world into a bloody war, here's how. Be afraid, because the fanatic idiot is now riding his chariot. And nobody seems to be willing to stop him or even slow him down. Just like then.

[progressoid]

3. I keep forcing myself to put thoughts about comparing b* to

Hitler, fascism, etc out of my mind. I want to keep a positive outlook. I want to believe that this is just an aberration. But I keep wondering how we got to this point. How did over half of the voting public fall for this? How did we become so blind? And how much more damage will be done?


Time to up my medication.

[Beetwasher]

6. Yup

Just, yup.

[Biased Liberal Media]

4. Freedom, my ass

With saying things like "I don't think you can be the POTUS if you don't believe in the Lord" it's a great way to push those who don't believe, not just Atheists and Agnostics, but Jewish folk, Muslims, Buddists, etc away.

Way to go Dubya!!!!

:puke:

[trotsky]

5. Nothing new, unfortunately.

Most of the 85% of the population that believes in a god of some sort probably feels the same way.

Of course, it's that 85% who is "persecuted," too.

[Bill McBlueState]

7. CMB for Bush?

"We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom, and America will always be faithful to that cause."

Wow, the cosmic microwave background is talking to Bush. That's pretty fuckin' psycho.

[fshrink]

8. You know... I was thinking about your signature

You could also make a point that Democrats think when the people win...