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Thread: Why is atheism so poorly represented in American politics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    Why is Atheism so poorly represented in America. That's a different question with a different answer. Atheists are whiners. Nobody likes a whiner except another whiner.

    They are not focused enough to actually read the bible to come up with their own arguments...they rely on the sorry work of other whining atheists who think they are so smart. Hence, they get boring to go along with their arrogance.
    ... wrong.

    *ahem*:

    Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
    Source: http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religiou...ge-Survey.aspx

    Atheists and agnostics — those who believe there is no God or who aren't sure — were more likely to answer the survey's questions correctly.

    ....

    So why would an atheist know more about religion than a Christian? American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study . . .

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    "These are people who thought a lot about religion," he said. "They're not indifferent. They care about it."
    Atheists and agnostics also tend to be relatively well educated, and the survey found, not surprisingly, that the most knowledgeable people were also the best educated. However, it said that atheists and agnostics also outperformed believers who had a similar level of education.

    Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep...urvey-20100928

    Additional Reading referencing this study (take your favorite pick):

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28religion.html
    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/...holy-american/
    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society...s.-Is-that-bad

    This one was simply too easy. Atheists superior knowledge of the bible over christians is very well documented.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wingrider View Post
    its kinda funny how athiests put down the bible, when it is the Number one selling book every year since it was first printed and isn't it strange that when Gutenberg invented the printing press the first book he printed was the Bible,, funny how that works.
    argumentum ad populum, a very common logical fallacy.

    The popularity of a specific argument/belief says nothing about the merits itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnAdams View Post
    IF anyone obsesses over religion, it's the atheists who do.

    It is the atheists we see throwing a fit, because a church provided a meal to a high school football team.

    It is after all the atheists we see screaming bloody murder over a cross nobody really knew was there, which the builders had erected and dedicated to fallen veterans out in the middle of the desert.

    It is the atheists we see demanding that any reference to God be removed from schools.

    It is the atheists we see rather than respecting the beliefs and choice of others, as they demand for themselves, hypocritically always attacking and attempting to insult those with religious belief, as the OP's own posts demonstrates.
    This argument is the logical equivalent of going up to someone, and punching them in the face repeatedly. And then when they say, "why are you punching me in the face," you retort with: "well you are the one talking about it! so who's really obsessed with face punching? not me!"

    *punch*

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    nope.. that is when you ask them why they keep banging their face against your fist,,
    The eastern world, it is exploding, violence flaring bullets loading. you are old enough to kill , but not for voting, this whole crazy world is just to frustrating, and you tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we are on the EVE of DESTRUCTION.


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    America is a religious nation that is not ruled by religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    America is a religious nation that is not ruled by religion.
    Oh yes it is.

    It has bred as much polarisation as the Reformation.

    Just that you never got round to popping off your opponents with all those guns you love to own because they are heretics.

    Which is something, I guess.

    Where I live, if someone even mentions religion, they get very odd looks which seem to say "You mean Coke is cheaper than Pepsi today?".
    Last edited by Awryly; 08-31-2012 at 06:01 PM.

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    Wryly, you're like the young buckaroo from back east who read a lot of dime novels and is now encountering the wild west. You've really got no clue what you're talking about America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    Oh yes it is.

    It has bred as much polarisation as the Reformation.

    Just that you never got round to popping off your opponents with all those guns you love to own because they are heretics.

    Which is something, I guess.

    Where I live, if someone even mentions religion, they get very odd looks which seem to say "You mean Coke is cheaper than Pepsi today?".

    Take anecdotal evidence with a grain of salt and get yourself an education. We really need intelligence tests for voting rights.

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    A linked question is why third parties are so badly treated

    Gary Johnson's party scored a million votes in the 2012 election.

    Which meant nothing. Because you have a system that excludes alternative opinion.

    Now that some of you can get gaily married and smoke pot, isn't it about time you could have all your opinions represented in your political system?
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    And together I sat on the fence


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    Only 5% of Americans are Atheists. Maybe that is why they are not highly represented is there are not that many of them. It is up from 1% 10 years ago.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...285_story.html

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