Reply #108: Thanks

[lazarus]

The words we use are critical, and getting the terms of the debate defined up front is crucial if we're to make any progress with understanding each other.

Atheists seem to be the only people who can't define their own position. We're told repeatedly (not by those here, by the extremists outside DU) that we're Satanists, that we're afraid of god, that we hate god. Few can accept that we just don't believe.

I'm willing to give the theists here the benefit of the doubt, that they are not in line with the fundamentalists and Dominionists who want to take over the country and set up a theocracy. I wish we could all work together to build a nation that truly has freedom to worship or not worship as we see fit.

The fact is, right now any group you pick has more chance to win the Presidency than an atheist. Gay, black, Muslim, woman, all of them have a much better chance than an atheist. I don't think we even have any atheist Congresscritters, do we?