Would you vote for an atheist?

[coral beef]

I would totally vote for an athiest. People who believe in God are just dumb.
There's a guy in the sky who can magically make things happen. And if you're a naughty little boy, he sends you to hell where you will burn for eternity and intense pain!.... But he loves you!

 

[ShockWaveee]

This is probably the most irrational statement I have ever heard. How would someone go about testing how rational people are? First off, if you are an athiest you have no moral standard. Therefore, rationallity is what you want it to be. To conduct this study, someone would have to use a standard of rationality, which was probably biased towards the rationality which would be found in an athiest.

This entire statement is ignorance at it's finest. You obviously do not understand the definition of moral.

moral (mor·al) -

• involving right and wrong: relating to issues of right and wrong and to how individual people should behave
• derived from personal conscience: based on what somebody's conscience suggests is right or wrong, rather than on what rules or the law says should be done
• according to common standard of justice: regarded in terms of what is
  known to be right or just, as opposed to what is officially or outwardly declared to be right or just

To think that an Atheist can have no morality is just stupid. If this were true, every Atheist would be out murdering, raping, and stealing. Is this the case? Obviously not. There is no conclusive way to test how rational someone is but if you think about it, somebody who does not have a God agenda on his mind can focus more on what he/she is supposed to be doing for his country. He/she wouldn't have gotten to be a presidential candidate if their interest was not for their country, so you can't fall back on that to support your half baked argument.

"The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state."

The above speaks for itself, religion should have no part of government and should not influence why you vote for someone. There have been plenty of religious people go off and do terrible things. Religion does not automatically make anybody into a better person. Your own personal choices make you who you are.

 

[SuF]

Keep voting!

 

[Kerdo]

Not trying to get all religious here, but athiest is STUPID. Not believing in god? Who the fuck created you?

My Mom and Dad. Weren't you paying attention during Sex Ed or are you too young for that?

>athiest is STUPID
Not even going to reply to that..

 

[xi momo xi]

My Mom and Dad. Weren't you paying attention during Sex Ed or are you too young for that?

>athiest is STUPID
Not even going to reply to that..

I completely agree to this.

Imagine if this was a debate/fight, and we have 2 sides.. Religious and Atheism.

Religion has: God, Santa, the easterbunny, the grinch, etc etc.
Atheism has: Logic and science.

 

[Costantino]

Have you ever actually even read the bible? God was NOT okay with slavery, however he gave man free will. Therefore, it was allowed. This does not mean it was preferred or encouraged. God did instruct the Israelites to treat them properly. The bible also restricted the master's powers over said slave.

God gave man free will, he expects US to make decisions in the way he expects us to act. I suggest you go educate yourself on religions before bashing them.

Maybe you should take some of your own advice, seeing as an unproven and undefined being cannot give you anything, you give yourself free will if you want to, and yes i have read the bible, excuse me for not remembering every single quote there is, have a read, heres some evidence, god was okay with slavery, and even selling your daughter as a sex slave.

http://www.evilbible.com/

Also you call "God" he? where in the Bible is "God" given a gender? Educate yourself.

 

[Karl]

This is where I think The US sucks, they judge someones ability to be a politician on their faith, It doesnt matter if he was muslim, christian, Athiest, Agnostic, whatever, none of those should have any kind of role to see if he's a formidable politician.

 

[tonitmeister]

I voted yes, but some of the reasons mentioned are biased and very narrow-minded.

Someone said "on average that atheists think more clearly" or smth like that.
I don't think anyone should be voting for someone because of what the stereotype for the "group" of ppl he/she is in. Stereotypes do NOT apply to everyone; making a decision like that is very unreasonable.

This kinda irritated me

Originally Posted by T M
This is probably the most irrational statement I have ever heard. How would someone go about testing how rational people are? First off, if you are an athiest you have no moral standard. Therefore, rationallity is what you want it to be. To conduct this study, someone would have to use a standard of rationality, which was probably biased towards the rationality which would be found in an athiest.

Well first of all...the fact that you think so narrow-minded-ly(not a word i know) of ppl is sad...how the fuck can u conclude that atheists have no moral standard just cuz god doesnt exist to them/us? so believing in god gives u morals? does it come with a happy-meal? cuz i might have to think bout gettin me one...
basically u shouldnt even be allowed to vote if u judge ppl on what their stereotype is...this is prly how bush got elected..."high school football star, harvad graduate, handsome" stereotypes!! high school football stars only want one thing: pussy! harvard graduate: he had Cs! handsome: maybe 95 yrs ago

aight i went a bit off topic but watev

 

[monk65]

I would vote for an atheist if they had good political views. If not no, I don't see why you wouldn't, I would see less bias in an atheist than a "believer"

 

[cownap]

This is where I think The US sucks, they judge someones ability to be a politician on their faith, It doesnt matter if he was muslim, christian, Athiest, Agnostic, whatever, none of those should have any kind of role to see if he's a formidable politician.

It isn't totally like that, but just like the poll shows AT LEAST 10% of people wouldn't vote for an atheist and that makes it a disadvantage to be an atheist running for president.

 

[Hacking]

Hell yeah, why not

 

[SuF]

It isn't totally like that, but just like the poll shows AT LEAST 10% of people wouldn't vote for an atheist and that makes it a disadvantage to be an atheist running for president.

Polls of American potential voting adults have about 50% saying they would not under any circumstance vote for an atheist. Thats even more than will never vote for a homosexual.

 

[JstarD]

Well yes, why not.
Religious people should respect other people's beliefs.
Faith and belief shouldn't be a defining factor of elections