I look forward to the day that an open non-believer can run for POTUS

Perhaps the last barrier, after even race and gender: non-believers (atheists, agnostics) are still not welcome nor trusted to run for national office in these United States. Considering how divisive religion is in this country, one would think that a non-religious candidate would offer a welcome alternative to the status quo. But sadly, that isn’t the case.

Also sad to realize that we are probably still years if not decades away from the time when Americans will accept a non-believer as being as normal and trustworthy as a candidate as a Catholic or a woman or a PoC.

While I celebrate the progress made, let’s not kid ourselves: we still have a long way to go.

This is the DU member formerly known as stopbush.

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I look forward to the day that an open non-believer can run for POTUS (Original post)	stopbush	Aug 2020	OP
we have way too many myths in politics	unblock	Aug 2020	#1
trump is a non believer and he is president nt	msongs	Aug 2020	#2
Really, because he talks and acts like a typical Christian.	stopbush	Aug 2020	#4
I would agree - his god is Donald Trump. But he plays the part of a Christian	rurallib	Aug 2020	#7
When I run	Chainfire	Aug 2020	#3
approximately what year might that be? n/t	RussBLib	Aug 2020	#5
Well, I probably don't have many years left	Chainfire	Aug 2020	#6

Response to stopbush (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2020, 05:48 PM

unblock (48,637 posts)

1. we have way too many myths in politics

republicans' fault, to be sure, but we have way, way too many myths and indefensible things going on in politics.

the notion that someone has to believe in god or go to church or or talk about their spirituality is just one aspect of this.

right-wing rhetoric is full of make-believe and fiction backed by angry insistence that it's the indisputable truth, they their leaders are infallible, that they were delivered to us from god, etc. so even when they're not explicitly talking about god or religion, they're still using the same kind of reasoning that betrays that their minds are not open to even consider another view; and worse, that any other view is not merely different or even mistaken, that it is *evil*.

long way to go?

we've got a long way to go just to get to the point where politics is about actual policy discussions and not tribal mudslinging and name-calling and cheating and so on. wake me up when any rationality appears in the national debate in this country. maybe then we can think about an open non-believer running for potus. or at least someone who is "non-religious", which is a close to atheist as anyone dares get in politics here.

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Wed Aug 12, 2020, 05:50 PM

msongs (59,402 posts)