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Permalink Reply by Lance Buckley on February 9, 2011 at 10:55am

'Come out' after you win the second term, then watch the wingnuts go crazy.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 9, 2011 at 11:03am

It truly would be 'the end of days' :D

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Permalink Reply by Bryan B on February 9, 2011 at 4:23pm

Not to sound gloomy but they'd just shoot him.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 9, 2011 at 4:31pm

No, they would just get naked and wait for rapture :P

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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on February 9, 2011 at 2:43pm

Don't be Silly!  California representative, Pete Stark, is the ONLY avowed atheist in the entire Congress - 1 out of 535.  And that ratio probably holds at all levels of state and federal government.  It will be 100 years, at least before an atheist would have the slightest chance of becoming President.  Gun-totin' women, Mormons, tea party rednecks: they all have a shot at the top job; but atheists?  Fuggeddaboudit!  As to whether I would vote for an atheist: the mere fact that he/she IS a atheist would indicate a propensity for truth, reason, and clear thinking; so, sure, I would jump at the chance.  In fact, I would run myself if someone had the courage and wherewithall to back me -maybe P.Z. Meyers.  I wouldn't be elected - not in medieval America - but it would be one HELL of a campaign.  Assassination wouldn't bother me, since I don't have the fear of death that Christians do.  Maybe Bill O'Reilly would interview me; that would give me the chance to explain to him what causes tides, as well as ask him why it was that Adolf Hitler passed a law in March, 1933, that made all freethinker and atheist organizations in Germany illegal.  After all, Bill KNOWS that there is a God; that HE (not Bill, but God) makes the world go around; and that Hitler was an atheist.

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Permalink Reply by Troy C on February 9, 2011 at 4:37pm

Ohhhh.. I like that. Good stuff

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Permalink Reply by bay_naam on February 11, 2011 at 5:02am

I m not American but I do Think American will going to elect an Atheist President in this decade. I m sayin this because US have to move forward, humanity have to move toward peace and harmony And atheism is the only solution to many problems of the world.  

Yes could be labeled as communist or socialist by illiterate/ignorant people, groups and countries of the world. So an Atheist president could get support/sympathies of the public of communist/socialist nations and opposition of theist nations( specially where there is less usage of electronic media and web). 

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