Religious freedom protected by the 1st amendment - lack of a religion is protected as well.

There are people who think that I will be left behind because I do not believe in god.

How do they know that they have the right religion? God is a construct of common wisdom, in that there is no proof of god nor is there absolute proof against god. The only reason god exists is because it is an institution, and gullible people love institutions. So why the hell should I worry about it. To think that I lack a morality because I do not believe in god is fallacy.

Free your mind, and your brain might fall out, but hey, at least you took the chance to see what other people may see.

God is an authority figure, a father figure, a mother figure a whatever figure, see what I did there? Its relative and subjective to those that believe in it.

OMG! NO! Don't take 'In God We Trust' off the money! It's been there since the founding! as long as America was founded in 1956.

Same for the Pledge 'edit' - it was not there before, you pledged your allegiance to the United States, not the God some believe...

You can really tell where the Republicans are losing, can't you. I bet Dole can't wait to lose so she can get the hell out of North Carolina (not that she's ever really there).

Removing God from the money and pledge isn't enough. I think we need to remove God from the Bible. He's been in control of that thing for so long, you'd think that HE wrote it!

God, I hate Bill O'Reilly. So very, very much.

Wow, this really makes me wish I could vote for Kay Hagan. I didn't even know there was a Godless Americans PAC. I think this ad just backfired.

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Wow, this really makes me wish I could vote for Kay Hagan. I didn't even know there was a Godless Americans PAC. I think this ad just backfired.


I think this campaign that has gone on for a while now has backfired severely. Just look at this blog post: http://friendlyatheist.com/4272/email-to-the-elizabeth-dole-campaign/

The readers of that blog post donated at least $1480 to the Kay Hagan campaign.

I'd missed this one in my internet wanderings . i found out when i got one of those direct mailers the right perfected back with reagan . wow what a laugh , thanks libby dole for letting me know there is a possibility of representation who wont totally disegard me just because i am a non-believer . if you ever wanna see the lowest in direct mail just register non-partisan/indy , you'll get neat stuff from the right every damn day.

I had a realization recently that religion is a sort of psychological warfare.

When you teach children at a very young age that there is this all-powerful, all-seeing being who controls your destiny, and that you have to love and obey this being if you are to get what you want out of life, you are instilling them with an imperialist viewpoint.

Western religions are essentially examples of spiritual imperialism.

Because the Gods of Western religions are essentially treated as Kings.

The thing that really gets me is that serious Christians shouldn't be worrying about taking God off our money—they should be asking why is God on our money in the first place.

The "hidden" camera footage of Kay Hagan at that fundraiser is what sold me, though I don't want to undersell how much the somber music also inspired *fear in my heart.

Adding video to channels (Fear) - requested by kronosposeidon.

I live in Raleigh, NC so I can has the pleasure of voting for Ms. Hagan but I don't think she'll win. NC politics is just the way you might think: very religion-heavy and anti-outsider. Dole is as much an institution here as Jesse Helms was.

In fact, in yesterday's mail I received a flyer that read, "With Kay Hagan and Liberal Judges, We're One Step Closer to Legal Gay Marriages." Of course, I logged into Ms. Dole's website and gave her a clean version of my standard response to such silliness.

^Nate Silver has her at a 65% chance to win: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ (scroll down and look on the right-hand side)