Interesting article - your thoughts?

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CyberLN's picture
Interesting article - your thoughts?

There was an interesting article in The New Yorker magazine that traces some history, offering suggestions about why there is such resistance by U.S. voters to elect an atheist to office.

Progress is being made in other areas (skin color and sex) but the religiosity issue seems to show more persistence.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/why-are-americans-still-un...

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Daniel Seeger is a hero.

Daniel Seeger is a hero.

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Hmmmm the guy seems willing

Hmmmm the guy seems willing to equate secular humanism to monotheism, cite a god of the gap fallacy and we have the familiar argument that nazism and stalinist regimes are a direct consequence of atheism.

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