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LeftishBrit

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9. No idea about numbers...

Reply to Silent3 (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 06:12 PM

Jan 2013

but here is a link to an 'America-love-it-or-leave-it' article from 2001, which indicates that religion is a key part of being American, and anyone who doesn't like it should leave.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020213210735/http://vietnow.com/artbar1.htm

I remember this being posted on a mostly-American non-political message-board to which I belonged in around 2004; and that some people agreed with it. I found it particularly offensive, as I have elderly friends and a relative who exercised their 'right to leave' America in the McCarthy Era, and this is a good example of the sort of attitude that drove them away.

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Atheism and US citizenship - does anyone know of a poll on this? [View all] Silent3 Jan 2013 OP

I have never seen any proposed law or regulation which would cbayer Jan 2013 #1

I'm not talking about laws, simply about the sentiment. Silent3 Jan 2013 #2

I am sure that some might say that, as polls support significant distrust cbayer Jan 2013 #4

One more thing - The Secular Coalition of America chose Edwina Rogers, cbayer Jan 2013 #3

SCOTUS struck down the state laws okasha Jan 2013 #10

That's good to know. I thought I had read something in this group cbayer Jan 2013 #11

If this is anything to go by, it is a high number appleannie1 Jan 2013 #5

That "quote" has been attributed to GHW Bush, not W, and has never been confirmed, btw. cbayer Jan 2013 #6

That's parody site tama Jan 2013 #13

It's not hard numbers, but the reaction of this San Antonio church crowd... Silent3 Jan 2013 #7

Fundamentalists always have and most likely always will condemn atheists. cbayer Jan 2013 #8

No idea about numbers... LeftishBrit Jan 2013 #9

I love the first comment on Patheos: muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #12