Can a non-Christan be elected to the Presidency in 2008???

[Nutmegger]

I noticed that the OP couldn't start a poll but did make mention of it. So I thought it would be fun to start a poll, hope the OP doesn't mind.

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Edited for clarity.

[rpgamerd00d]

1. Actually, I meant in 2008, not the ambiguous "future".

Sorry if that wasnt clear.

:(

[Nutmegger]

3. Ooops, my bad. Edited. [nt]

[baldguy]

2. Is Bush a Christian?

I didn't think so.

[SongOfTheRayne]

18. touche.

:yourock:

[arcane1]

4. Yes, but only if they lie and claim to be a Christian

[HillDem]

5. exactly

People just dont trust atheists....

Sigh...

[arcane1]

9. well, we atheists DO eat children and promote beastiality, after all

but that's still no reason for people to distrust us :evilgrin:

and, of course-->> :sarcasm:

[awoke_in_2003]

23. you forgot

we also aid and support the terrorists :sarcasm: (just in case)

[arcane1]

30. ah yes,! Atheism and Islamic fundamentalism go great together!

:silly:

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Well,

it does to Freeper/fundie logic :)

[movonne]

6. It will happen when the world gets more enlighten..and that will not

be for a long, long time..(maybe never if we manage to blow up and or ruin our land, air, water, etc.)

[flamin lib]

7. Not in my lifetime or that of my children or grand children.

I've been watching the worldwide growth of fundamentalism in religions of all kinds and it scares shit out of me.

The TV Evangelicals are bad enough, but the Episcopal church had a schism over fundamentalism and when the wiskeypalians start with that crap it's getting way to serious.

Kabbalah, Scientology, Islam and the war against science in our classrooms is of grave concern to me.

[Strong Atheist]

An atheist will NEVER be president. nt.

[JohnnyCougar]

10. Athiests are not the only non-christians.

[Strong Atheist]

11. Didn't say they were ... nt.

[JohnnyCougar]

15. Ok...

Because I do think a Jew could be president.

And I'm a Catholic.

[Strong Atheist]

17. A catholic has been president, and a Jew could be,

they would both beat out any atheist, soundly...

to be honest, I don't know which group is hated more in this country, GLBT (i'm bi, too), or atheists...

[DetroitProle]

21. I wish, but I doubt.

I'd vote for Feingold, and there are plenty of other good Jewish candidates for president.
I think most Americans at this point would support a Jewish candidate. The ones that wouldn't...I'm thinking would be the 20% who are going to vote Republican anyway.
An atheist president? Not a chance.

[Strong Atheist]

24. Of course no atheist pres. Welcome to D.U.!

:toast:

[RaleighNCDUer]

29. Whoa. Is this thread tied to Falwell's comment, on earlier

threads, that Jews are going to hell?

Are they already starting to run against Feingold?

[AllieB]

26. I still think that anti-semitisim (and anti-Catholicism) are rampant

in some areas of the country. I'm Catholic and was told by a fundamentalist co-worker that I wasn't a Christian and I'm going to hell.

[JohnnyCougar]

31. But those people won't vote for a Dem anyway

So it's not like we're losing out on any votes... :-)

[RaleighNCDUer]

27. Jon Stewart for Prez! nt

[triguy46]

8. Not in today's political environs...

Krammick and Moore, writing in "The Godless Constitution", 1997, make the case in depth, that though there is no 'religious test' for political office, there is a de facto test. Hence all current politicos feeling the need to self confess their deep felt religious beliefs. They assume, and an uniformed elctorate seems to expect, that we be informed of their beliefs. We saw Reagan, Bush I, espousing their born again-ness to the fundies, though that is a concept neither fully understood or participated in at a level the fundies expect. Most 'murricans' have some type of religious belief system, only for some is it well thought out and followed, most are more concerned with others being religious than the status of their own religious nature.

this of course is what Roger Williams fought so hard against, why he got tossed from Massachusetts, that the 'soul competency' of elected officials is to be highly suspect and in fact, distrusted at best.

So, schizos that make up this country demand it of others, yet take a pass for the most part.

[Beelzebud]

12. No, because I honestly think most christians would never vote for a non.

Even though athiests like me vote for christians in every election.

[slide to the left]

13. Use the word

"christian" loosely. Remember, Bushie called himslef a 'christian' but by the way he acts, he isnt.

[JohnnyCougar]

14. I think a non-Christian could be president.

Right now, even a lot of liberal and moderate Christians think Bush has gone too far in including Christianity in our governemnt.

In a recent CBS poll, 92% of Americans said that they would vote for someone even if they weren't a Christian.

[leyton]

16. I don't think we'll ever even have a Catholic President.

Everybody knows that Protestants will never vote for a Catholic.

[MissB]

19. Um, JFK was Catholic.

[leyton]

33. Wow. Just wow.

I was being sarcastic. Everybody knows JFK is Catholic. My dog knows JFK is Catholic. My point was that people used to dismiss the idea that a Catholic could be President, and lo and behold...

[BlueStateModerate]

20. Kennedy...?

Plenty of Protestants voted for Kerry as well. It's perfectly possible that a Catholic becomes President again.

[beyurslf]

22. Do you mean a person who does not live by the ways of Christ? Like

GWB certailny does not and wouldn't be a Christian.

Certainly no one in 2008 will be elected who explicity says "I am not a Christian." When I say that here, people look at me like I said the sky is purple. Like there could be no other alternative.

[AllieB]

25. No, because this country has become religiously insane

Many fundamentalists/evangelicals believe that Jews (let alone Catholics) can't get into heaven. Forget about anyone professing the Islamic faith. This administration has whipped up a ton of paranoia and anti-Muslim fervor.

[PassingFair]

28. I vote YES! I may be an ATHIEST... but

...I HAVE FAITH IN FEINGOLD!

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