(February 9, 2015 at 10:17 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(February 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: While this is technically true, these laws are also all unconstitutional.
Oh yeah, none of them are defensible in any way, but they exist and no one is in a hurry to get rid of them.
Yes, and that is very much to the point of the OP. The question was about attitudes, and the fact that there are such laws and they are not being eliminated speaks volumes about the attitudes of people in power about such matters. And, of course, we may infer from that (what any adult living in America ought to already know) that the voting public has a negative attitude toward atheists as well. Otherwise, those in power might want to eliminate such unconstitutional laws.
Quite simply, it is probably impossible that anyone who declared himself or herself to be an atheist could become the next president. And it would be very difficult to get into high public office generally, as religious bigots would vote against one. Not impossible everywhere, but it adds difficulties everywhere, as there are religious bigots everywhere.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
