Saturday, June 30, 2007

Promoting Atheism in Oregon

Via vjack at Atheist Revolution: Promoting Atheism in Oregon.

There is an outstanding letter about atheism in the Oregon Daily Emerald. Here are some highlights:

Recently the Democratic presidential front-runners participated in a "Faith and Politics" forum on CNN to prove their religiosity to the voters. Why is this attack on the separation of church and state so easily accepted? Why is this blatant bigotry not only tolerated, but also encouraged? Don't we deserve to be judged by the content of our character, not by our willingness to embrace superstition? Do we really want to continue to keep some of the brightest and most educated people out of public office?

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Atheist Revolution always has it going on. I read vjack almost every day. This little post is a home run in my book. Why are Presidential candidates so quick to show they embrace superstition? What happened to reason and logic?

1 comment:

vjack said...

Thanks for the kind words, and right back at you, Mojoey. I'm making an effort to spend at least as much time promoting atheism and calling for reality-based politics as I do on criticizing religion.