Articles on nonbelievers in the Washington Post, September 15

[Philip]

The September 15 Washington Post has a couple of interesting articles on nonbelievers in Europe and the US:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402501.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402199.html

[jimtron]

In a nationwide poll last year by University of Minnesota (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/University+of+Minnesota?tid=informline) researchers, Americans rated atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants and other minority groups in "sharing their vision of American society." They also associated atheists with everything from criminal behavior to rampant materialism. According to a recent USA Today (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/USA+TODAY?tid=informline)/Gallup Poll (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Gallup+Organization?tid=informline), more than half would not vote for an atheist for president.

Cause you never see believers perpetrating crimes. And it's so much better to have a prez who consults with god about war and stuff.

[thatguywhojuggles]

Nice articles. Thanks for posting them.

[Philip]

Cause you never see believers perpetrating crimes. And it's so much better to have a prez who consults with god about war and stuff.
Yeah, and the believers' view about criminal behavior by atheists is contradicted by the fact that atheists are under-represented in the prison population of the US.

(You're welcome, tgwj.)

[l0rca]

But some atheists are also extreme, urging people, for example, to blot out the words "In God We Trust" from every dollar bill they carry.

LAWL.

[truethat]

The In God We Trust thing on our money is something that gets me into trouble with my believer friends all the time. It doesn't belong there. I always quote them Luke 20 because I don't even think if there was a God he'd want it one there.


Luke 20:19-26
[19] The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

[20] Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. [21] So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. [22] Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

[23] He saw through their duplicity and said to them, [24] "Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?"

[25] "Caesar's," they replied.

He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."

[26] They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.

[Gord_in_Toronto]

But some atheists are also extreme, urging people, for example, to blot out the words "In God We Trust" from every dollar bill they carry.
LAWL.

Oh my Ghad. Extreme militant atheists defacing money!!! What will they do next? Start littering??
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