(December 15, 2017 at 6:30 am)Joods Wrote: Yet in Pennsylvania, if you are atheist, you are not permitted to hold any office.
Why aren't these types of issues challenged here and in other states where your right to not believe in a deity prevents you from holding office?
Because lawmakers have no incentive to repeal the law, even though it would immediately get overturned in court if it was challenged.
But to be challenged, one needs a challenger. The same law exists here in Tennessee. The thing is, no atheist has a chance of winning at least here in TN, candidates get accused of being an atheist in negative attack ads. So there haven't been challengers to the laws, which could never be enforced.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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