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Permalink Reply by Ash on February 13, 2011 at 6:20pm

It's amazing how many people have no problem at all with discrimination until it affects them directly.  If it said "One Nation under God. Be a Roman Catholic or leave!" Then the protestants would finally see a problem.  Same in reverse.  Or substitute any other subset of christianity or other religion.  So long as the discriminated group isn't them personally however, its all good (and even a "good message").

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Permalink Reply by Courtney on February 13, 2011 at 8:42pm

I know if I'm ever in your state, I won't be purchasing gas there.

People like that disgust me.
Who are they to judge who belongs in this country?

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 13, 2011 at 8:47pm

They don;t judge, their god does.  And it just so happens that their god agrees with them.

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Permalink Reply by Troy C on February 13, 2011 at 9:15pm

I signed the petition. I wish they would have interviewed me. " I don't care about the message, I just need some gas.. and there are no other places around to get it". I would say that, just to be somewhat funny.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Gorey on February 13, 2011 at 10:34pm

Could you imagine if we all went to a medium sized country?  one country would have 93-95% of the American Academy of the Sciences, as well as all of the other brilliant scientists, novelists, philosophers, entertainers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. it would cause that country to go into a renaissance, while the USA would be a cultural and scientific wasteland.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 13, 2011 at 11:02pm

An excellent point.  Too bad most of this brilliant elite is too tied down by theistic family and opportunity to leave for a foreign land.  Why, it would take Nazis to initiate a mass exodus of such brain power.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on February 13, 2011 at 11:07pm

I dunno about Nazis.  Remember that the 'zi' in Nazi refers to socialism, which isn't an American forté.  Still, there is another word that combines well with American ultra-nationalism.  I dub them the Nasshole party.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 14, 2011 at 12:59am

Oh, any amount of social concern is Socialism these days.

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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on May 5, 2011 at 9:10pm

Sozialismus was Nazi for Faschismus.  :-)  Fascism continually threatens to make itself an American forté. :-(

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Permalink Reply by Greg Gorey on February 14, 2011 at 12:00am

most people do not understand that many aspects of american culture, such as our tv shows (Futurama and the Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad, the UFC, curb your enthusiasm) and computer software (the other Steve from Apple, Bill Gates) are brought to us by non-religious people

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 14, 2011 at 1:01am

Yeah?  I guess Sunday morning prayer won't be affected too much.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on March 20, 2011 at 5:19am

I find it quite interesting how much atheism is part of US prime time shows. In addition to the ones you have listed, other shows with atheist protagonists include House, Bones, CSI, Community, Castle, Lie to me, Dexter, Numb3rs, Fringe, etc etc.

I send Hollywood my thanks.

 

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