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Post #1060594

Author
Jetrell Fo
Parent topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
30-Mar-2017, 1:22 AM

CatBus said:
Trump is our first atheist President. Yeah, I know, he passes for Presbyterian–a lot of >us have to pass for something for various reasons, and most of us are way more convincing >than he is. But leaving that aside for a moment, what “bad reputation” do atheists have in >the larger culture? Let’s see: amoral, untrustworthy sociopaths who think they’re >inherently superior to everyone else.

So I’m really, really hoping, in spite of his ongoing collapse in popular support, that when >Trump eventually slouches off stage left, that whatever mysterious hypnotic “I’m one of you” >hold he has on white Christians remains firmly in place. Because otherwise they’ll say: >“That’s what happens when you put an atheist in charge,” and we’re back to the days of >debating if atheists can actually be Americans.

I’m agnostic so this made me giggle a bit. Sorry about the arrows in the quote, I don’t know why it did that.