RE: Can atheists get elected to office?
October 6, 2014 at 7:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2014 at 7:34 am by Violet.)
(October 6, 2014 at 7:12 am)Chas Wrote: I get the feeling that you don't recognize the problem.
The answer is... it's problematic.
Old people stuck in their ways, and people who haven't declared themselves unaffiliated from religion? The first will die out within two generations, the last will not be guided by the first in two generations.
The only way this does not "solve" itself is if we take a particular and sudden shift to the dystopian and/or fascism, and somehow return to alienation of noncaucasian peoples (and russians, of course).
I don't perceive it as a problem that needs to be addressed, as it will be addressed naturally when politicians are aware that the masses are more inclined to trust secular judgement in its internal affairs than the guidance of 'God'. It's only relevant in the short term... and there is little that isn't very drastic (re: dystopian) that can possibly change that in the short term.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
