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  • Obama does not once mention God. xD

    Treading a fine balance #likeaboss

  • @visa

    Actually, Obama did mention god.

    Somewhere around 1:03

  • Ron Paul 2012! (: I understand this has nothing to do with this vid...

  • @orangeman6870 FUCK YOU AND FUCK RON PAUL

  • I wish Obama still had the guts to say stuff like this, I know he's trying to get re-elected but in the process he sounds bi-polar half the time.

  • @Emandudeguyperson ~ I firmly believe that Obama is an Agnostic at the very least, or an Atheist at best, but he is running in a country where 80% or more believe in Zeus under the name of God. So unless you want Mitt running the show for the next 4 years he has to say what ever the masses want to hear.

  • @RaserX305 lol, Obama an atheist? are you kidding me?

  • Dude ! I don't know why, but right when I saw Obama smiling, I want him to be our president!

  • I wonder whats so funny about Bill"s question that you can see Obama laughing at the begining of the video? I'd like to think that deep inside,he too realizes that the ten commandments are nonsense.

  • I wonder whats so funny about Bill"s question that you can see Obama laughing at the begining of the video? I'd like to think that deep inside,he too realizes that the ten commandments are nonsense.

  • The reason Obama says African American instead of black is cuz he's a whitey.

  • My favorite part was when zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • fuck Bill Maher, fucking critizices him for Bush's mistakes, like million deaths, and you all critizice him when he;s cleaning the shit up. its no longer good for america to devide themselves in republicans and democratics, open your eyes people, we're fighting with ourselves for stuff we already know, and we already know who's the criminal yet we continue to deny it..... go ahead reply some dumb ass bullshit now like a usual american XD

  • I love the fact that he is basically saying: Fuck that old piece of crapbook.

  • Commandment #10 Says do not covet...that covers rape and and everything else.

    Not to mention throughout the whole old testament it talks against rape and sexual immorality and adultery. Obama talked way to much because he didn't know the answer, he doesn't know the bible hes obviously Islamic or Atheist

  • It sounds as if you were taught some extremely defective principals of hemanuetics when it comes to studying the Bible. To talk of fictional Holy Books while conflating the Bible w/the Quran, Book of Mormon, etc is clearly nonsensical& contrived itself; they all make vastly dis-similar truth claims regarding meaning & purpose (which is evident in reading them). If you are so concerned w/the pragmatism of the BIble, try reading & following the man-made laws of most county/state statutory codes.

  • Is obama making faces in a mirror?

  • Obama is very agile to give an answer that pleases most people.

  • Obama's awesome! He's too smart to be a dull christian scum

  • Look people, beliefs are beliefs, if people want to believe something, let them. I just don't advocate intolerance, of either theism or atheism, people need to learn to accept that not everyone is going to believe their religion so they need to suck it up and accept it. I believe in God, but I'm not going to go around shoving it down people's throat. I barely ever even talk about it, because its MY belief, and should not involve anyone else.

  • @eleal1893 What a wonderfully open and kind view! Thank you for posting this! While I am not a Christian, I truly believe in the right of each individual to explore the truth of life and find his or her own perspective. Tolerance and acceptance are the two qualities most lacking in political and theistic debate.

  • @txtblockd Thank you 

  • @eleal1893 But if you are a politic maybe your beliefs or lack there of can affect others.

  • @mauriciohavok Well that's the ignorance today in America, religion and politics should not mix, I don't vote based on religion, I vote based on candidate.

  • @eleal1893 And candidates often base their agenda based on politics, look at Sarah Palin or Rick Perry.

    And here comes the moment when I question myself, why am I talking about US politics if I'm not american?

  • @mauriciohavok Lol, IDK man, but yeah, I hate candidates that base their political agenda based on religion, this is not a theocracy. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely several things I agree with Republican candidates, just not their religious views.

  • @eleal1893 I agree, if someone wants to believe in god, so be it, but guys like Maher are out to get Christians, Maher is just downright hateful towards them, and that is wrong.

  • @RyZombie619 exactly, hating someone and claiming that they hate is so irrational.

  • @dreamcatchertwice isn't it? How come people honestly can't see their irrationality?

  • @eleal1893 Exactly thats what i am too. I wont shove it down your throat if you dont do it to me.

  • @eleal1893 religion is wrong you peice of shit

  • @vfire27 the way you spelled piece is wrong actually. cheer up.

  • Barry looked young and rested, damn....

  • Obama is an atheist and so is everyone else. Its just not possible to believe that an animal as evolutionarily intelligent as humans would think that a jew zombie winds all the clocks and flicks all the switches LOL

  • What an anachronism - and a shame - that Obama has to pretend to be a theist in order to at least have a chance of being elected by largely uneducated, largely red-neck America. In advanced nations we remain a laughing stock.

  • Obama handled that question like BOSS! have bush or palin answer that. 

  • @Jetkimchrea ur compating a guy who went to harvard law, to a stanford grad, and a ms alaska winner

  • Bush whom many americans re-elected in 04 i mean.

  • @Metasand if by many you mean less than half then I'm with ya lol damn electoral college lol

  • Vote for Obama 2012, not only is he a nice guy , he is on the in my view right side the left side. He has suceeded like you have seen with the bin ladin mission, and other thing, and he needs more time. He is a lot better than Bush, whom many americans re-elected in 07. Obama 2012.

  • @Metasand: Thats not a convincing arguement. I'm a nice guy, should I be elected? I helped a team win 2nd place in a hockey tournament, does this make me a worthy president. The short answer is no. Being a nice guy isn't grounds for re-election. Also, you have to look at more than his small-time victorys. Killing osama is not a major victory. Look at the bailout he signed that has put us trillions of dollars in debt to the point that our childrens children will be paying it. Nobama 2012.

  • he's an agnostic. he's not really religious but not taking a chance. oldly enough most jews who leave israel are also agnostic. with the increase knowledge available religion is fast losing ground. one females in islamic countries began to actually have a religious choice religion will disapear altogether makeing the world a ,much safer, morally better and more enjoyable place to live

  • If I would run for president in USA I would say that I'm a Christian too because that's the only way you can actually become elected in such a retarded country. Well I'm glad I'm not living there anymore, I enjoy the company of 80-90% atheists in Northern Europe:)

  • Hes not acting like a Christian to get votes. He was a Christian before he came into politics.

  • Amazing how stupid Obama sounds when he's not readiging from his teleprompter.

  • wtf is he smiling at???

  • @whattyhoo

    That was easily my least favorite characteristic of Obama during that campaign. That goofy Conrad Veidt-like smile. But it looks like a few years of the rigors of governance has wiped those smiles away.

  • @NoRegretsForOurYouth

    Wow really? And what does your smile look like? It kills me to know that people can be so mean and judgemental when they themselves are not doing a dam thing to help this country but complain. Of all of the characteristics of our PRESIDENT your looking at his smile. Now that is crazy!

  • @augheat68

    Woah, saying his goofy smile irked me the most was meant as paying the president a huge compliment. I voted for him, would do it again, but that dismissive smile bugged me, it's not a big deal though.

  • bill maher 2012

  • Barack Obama should just come out and admit hes an atheist if he wins a second term and if he doesnt then after. Maybe then people will realize that Atheists are smarter than them.

  • i've studied the christian books and i think afro-american christians are morons! the less idiotic christian church is the eastern orthodox church.

  • @ak031995 I don't know how they can blindly defend a faith that was used to blunder, pillage and rape there whole entire race. (Taken from Greydon Square song.)

  • he is laing about his religion what name is Hussein???? is he Christian no he ain't firs he ses he is and know he is atheist fucking bulshit

    The controversy lies in the fact that he was born to a Christian mother and a Muslim Father- making him Christian according to Christianity and Muslim according to Islam. He also attended a Madrasah (Islamic school) when he was a child.

    it doesnt meter but why are they laing just to make him president

  • @crazyshittttt Learn how to spell before you try to lie about a man who was a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and graduated from Harvard with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude. You "birthers" are a joke. You're in a group full of uninformed, uneducated, and ignorant individuals. Your screen name is probably what most people call you in real life.

  • @SeoulSon51 go fuck ur self u punk assbich he is a muslim harvard ho givsa shit

  • @crazyshittttt OH GOOD POINT! Now that you put it that way you're right! Sleep tight bat shit.

  • @crazyshittttt troll...

  • It is a sin to think evil of others, but in Obama's case, I make an exception. I worship the ground that will hold his corpse.

  • @BG1961v Hahahaha, oh man. You christians crack me the fuck up! Keep the hypocrisy coming, I'm dying for more laughter!

  • Idiots, of course you are mistaking Obama "atheism" or with the euphemism. These are different things...

    All this time, how you had not noticed that all of Obama's speeches are euphemisms?

    It seems that 8 years with Bush was not enough to make you understand that the speeches are made for a specified proportion of the population which is required to receive votes of a party.

  • 90 percent of americans believe in god so i believe in god even tho im truly agnostic or an atheist...............i mean i gotta pretend to believe because america is retarded and un educated so ummmm i win if i say im a christian...

  • @offpsring123 Actually, about 20 percent of Americans are ATheists/Agnostics/ or Deists, youre not alone, be proud of what you belive or dont belive, dont be embarass to say that you dont belive in God, youre not with the crazies anymore.

  • @edgarreyes14 I think its 20% of people under thirty yrs old. The "older" generation is still religious and when our younger generations begin to take over in the future, I believe that percentage will go up. Side note.. ever try to talk a religious person out of being religious? You cant, they just change subject or say its just "what I believe, sorry". It's funny to me, to look in on religion, and try to determine how the hell average seemingly rational people really believe that shit...

  • @edgarreyes14 What if the majority believes in God or in religions ? If the majority would through out of a cliff, would you, just for the sake of not being different ? Nowadays the majority is mostly wrong.

  • Liar? No just a politiciam.

    He is an atheist, evidently

  • this guys way too intelligent to be a theist. definitely a closet atheist.

  • I second the atheist comment. No rational man, sharp and intelligent as is Barack Obama, brought up unconcerned with religion, educated at Harvard, up and "converts" to Zombie Jew Theory except in anticipation of a political career and the scrutiny he would be under in a nation overrun by critical desertmen.

    Christians become atheists regularly. It isn't the other way around. You know, I like Obama, but it's the first time I feel like he's truly lied. Then again, it's that or no White House.

  • The internal inconsistencies and unlikely supernatural claims of any holy text are in no way related to the question of religion's social utility.

  • obama is an obvious agnostic/athiest

  • @yugozauuvijek it's not 90%

    it's like 73% Christian

  • @atheistkyo There are other religions.

  • Why did Bill Maher turned into a old man after talking with Obama for only a few minutes.

  • @beginization LMFAO!

  • Think about he was raised non religious and his mom was against religion. and when he needed to get elected he knew faith would be a huge factor so he joined a church to help him win. I like Obama but i get why he has to lie about his belief in God, because anyone who is non Christian will not get elected president for a while.

  • the "conspiracy" against the working class. Hmmm. What if a rich person had a government against them as well? I think most people in civilised communities look down on the working class for a reason. Sweeping the streets doesn't take massive brain power.

  • Lets just make this all very clear... How Christians act now or since secular laws were enacted, IS NOT what the Holy Scriptures professes.

    It is astonishing how people will abet religions, even the ones that have scriptures with their god having his own people kill each other, and many other fascinatingly horrible acts of judgement, with a dash of stupidity, well OK a whole lot of stupidity.

    Obama basically said he adapted to the political social structure, quite true for many i believe.

  • i wish we could just have an atheist president

  • @fenderdude64 who gives a shit about religion ffs! If their Christian theirChristian if their atheist their athiest! It's people like you who gives atheism the stereotype they have today!

  • @fenderdude64 give it time I'd say by 2030 we will have an atheist president

  • @fenderdude64 Doesn't seem possible in the current US environment.

  • @fenderdude64 I honestly think you do. The more i hear from Obama, the more i figure he is an atheist. He just can't say it out loud because in the United States of Jesusland you can't get elected if you don't believe in god. (Polls show that 62% of Americans would not vote for an atheist president)

  • @TheTrentBoyerShow I know! Yet people keep thinking that America was founded off christian faith which is totally stupid. But I guess since they're christians they don't read very much lol

  • Capitalism is the wage slavery of immense humanity in a politically manipulated,tyrannical MARKET MECHANISM of artificial scarcity to perpetuate the conditions of servitude and compliance in the interest of the OWNING/RULING CLASS. Capitalism in State dictatorship or Corporate Fascism modality is a monetary control,suppression and deception of the Working Class across the world. We need to reclaim our lives,our Planet for a world of cooperation for our common needs and well being.

  • @arzoyan woah!

    yessir

  • @arzoyan So what, you think socialism or communism is the answer? What is wrong with you? It isn't capitalism itself that is responsible for slavery of the working class, it is corporatism, it is large corporations. history has shown us that neither large governments nor big business help anything, what helps is freedom, freedom that ultimately lets people pursue their own goals, without an authoritarian government or large corporations or monopolies keeping us down.

  • @eleal18 A moneyless classless,stateless communities of humanity in cooperation for our common needs and well being. Capitalism driven by State or Corporartions are tyrannical.destructive,dehuman­sing .

  • @arzoyan We don't live in a utopia, and we never will. What you speak of, theoretically speaking of course. is Marxism with a mix of anarchy, where it is the communities that work and cooperate, in exchange for nothing. But let's be honest, who wants to work for no money. Also, there is the issue of skilled vs unskilled labor. For example, you want a doctor, you believe that doctor will want to get paid with the same piece of bread as a simple farmer? No. You have to understand human nature.

  • @eleal1893 We suffer the minority imposition of monetary serfdom and dehumanisation. To pursue a monologue expressing the failed limits of market system is the ideological manipulation of YOU by YOUR OWNERS.

  • @arzoyan Unfortunately my friend, your views are impossible to achieve, through any system. The thing that stands in the way is human nature, and as we all know, we cannot do anything about human nature. Therefore, we must work our way around that to achieve happiness even with that flaw.

  • @eleal1893 What stands in the way of a SANE society is not so called human nature but the ideological manipulation and devaluation of working men and women by the Owning/Ruling class. To undertand the issue check out Bruce Lipton and The Zeitgeist Moving Forward. dont be so naive and helpless.

  • @arzoyan I know exactly what you are talking about, but I don't think you are picking up what I am saying. Throughout the history of mankind, the "owning/ruling" class have always manipulated the working people. Which is the point of freedom, to free people from oppression, and let them decide how to prosper for themselves (aka Responsibility). The world I envision is one where neither the government nor the corporations oppress anyone, and everyone has the opportunities to prosper.

  • @eleal1893 Whay happened to your human nature dogma?

  • @arzoyan You really don't understand, it is human nature that caused the "owning/ruling" class to manipulate the people. Which is the point of freedom, to prevent that. See I know what you are trying to say, and I am trying to explain the fallacy of your statements, but you aren't getting it, I don't know of another way to say it. I'm sorry, leftists just will never understand logic.

  • @eleal1893 Parroting distortation and ruling class ideology can only create false sense of ego trip.

  • Look at how BLACK he is!

  • Religion shouldn't be an issue at ALL in choosing a political leader.

    "God" would never hold up in court.

    There is no proof, no witnesses, and very little believable documentation. There is also massive evidence that religion is a means to control, scare, and brainwash people into doing things they wouldn't ordinarily do (like kill strangers and abstain from having sex with them.)

  • Damn, Obama looked quite a bit younger here.

  • maher wants obama to be his boyfriend.

  • @darkfur35 maybe two years ago, Bill Maher frequently trashes Obama on his show, actually, I haven't seen him say any good thing about Obama for months.

  • This is edited in a funny way, it seems lifted from other interviews.

  • Another george bush clone. Now available in different colors people... Metallic grey comes next.

  • @kaotik1981 Except now with an actual functioning brain.

  • it is obvious he is an atheist but he cant say that out loud, any politician in America has to pander to the Christian idiots to get in to office because there are so many of these idiots in America (75% Christians in 2010). Obama is a smart rational man therefore it would be fair to assume he is an atheist or agnostic. He might believe in a higher power but really doubt he believes in the Jewish Fairytale.

  • @atheistkyo too bad for u guys. here in Australia we have a female atheist prime minister.

  • @lordrazi111693 And she's getting shit for it by several of the local Christian groups, too. Not half as bad as America; but it is downright silly that anyone would single it out as if it counts for anything.

    Religion'd be awesome if it weren't so intolerant sometimes. I like the Christian (and Morman) Churches near my house; they're nice, and tolerant, and helpful. Those wierd minorities are too loud. =P

  • @jaieet u like ur local indoctrination centers?

  • @lordrazi111693 Of course. Charities, youth groups, tolerance; they're entirely nice people. Not very strict or aggressive either.

    I like any approach to religion that lets the people do as they want. Absolutely nothing wrong with believing in something; unless that something promotes intolerance.

  • @jaieet "absolutely nothing wrong with believing in something; unless that something promotes intolerance."

    really? what if what u belive in is dumb and u teach it as fact. and gets in the way of the democracy u live in. and is encouraging conformity. teaching Christianity is as wrong as teaching harry potter is a true story.

    fuck tolerance! it is weakness and enables ignorance and actions that hurt our interests.

  • @lordrazi111693 If it gets in the way of a democracy owing to the fact that a select Christian group is promoting intolerance (against Muslims, Atheists and anyone who disagrees with them), then it's not quite tolerance, is it? Enforced conformity is definitely not tolerance. Democracy 'supposedly' is. If they conflict, something is evidently not working as intended.

    Don't be a jerk. Christians don't automatically believe in stupid things. That's just as silly as their anti-atheist stance.

  • @jaieet Christianity can promote intolerance; and that's truest in America. But that's not absolute. I can tell you that intolerance doesn't happen where I'm living - not based on faith at least. So evidently, there's a LOT of room to give inbetween the 'religion is evil' argument and 'religion is good' arguments.

    The fact that the book is subjective is what the problem is. They can teach whatever they want. Apparently, good parts breed good people. So simple solution, right? Take the bad out.

  • @jaieet all of the ones who believe in prayer or in Jesus dieing and returning to life after spending three days in hell.

    tolerance is not something to be praised or sought after in eagerness.

    only our interests matter.

  • @lordrazi111693 Ahh... but our interests DON'T matter in a world that will not tolerate them. In fact; Christian interests are the most prominent, as they hold the most support. Thus, we ignore 'our' best interests in favour of mass support.

    And before you know it; we're back in the dark ages. :P

    People can hold stupid/silly belief systems. Most people 'do'. Ie: the viewpoint that tolerance doesn't encourage growth. C'mon--it's just parenting 101, that. =P

    Religion is just one among many.

  • @jaieet i know that and agree. the problem is that people take tolerance as a virtue.

    the reason it is good is that it serves my interests for freedom of speech to exist ect....

    it also serves my interests for there to be no religion.

  • @lordrazi111693 Without religion, the woman's suffrage may never have happened. Susan B Anthony; a 'very' prominent part of the womens' rights movement, was a practitioner of Unitarian Universalism; a church that has been prominent in encouraging the rights of all people; regardless of race, sex, colour, or what have you (and were VERY involved in the anti-segregation movements, as well as the anti-slavery movement)

    You'd prefer a world where these people never existed?

  • @jaieet good deeds can be done without religion as can bad ones.

    it doesn't only matter that you do good deed, it also matters that you do them for the right reason: so that no stupid theological argument came along and forced u to change because of what god wants u to do

    as for freeing slaves: it was used to justify it.("u can still be a good christian and a slave owner as much as u can be a good christian and be a farmer") they said

    this bores me

    conversation over.

  • @lordrazi111693 And it was ALSO used as a counter-argument. See that wierd paradox, there? 'One' religious group said blacks were bad; while 'another' said they were good.

    What you want is the dismissal of ALL of these belief systems (Unitarian Universalists/Buddhists/Jainis­ts don't do this stuff to get a better deal in the afterlife, or appease god, by the way). Destroying all of it.... destroys all of it. The bad AND the good.

    It also leaves a void to be filled by some other random belief.

  • @jaieet It's not a matter of 'getting rid of silly superstitions'. It won't fix much. What we 'should' aim to do is force religion into a state of reformation. They aren't perfect; they have changed in the past.

    They can keep their 'good' values, and get rid of the dark-age superstitions. Most churches don't even teach the 'bad' stuff.

    If we want them to grow up; we need to grow up too. Can't just 'get rid' of things you don't like. Hitler and Stalin made that painfully obvious.

  • @jaieet

    Do you suffer from stroke or really you are so stupid you preach something you don't even know?

    Deuteronomy, Chapter 22 of the Old Testament. You should take as literal the parts that you are enjoying it, and taken as symbology the parts you don't like?

    And then you call yourself a feminist? You just show you are a liar and a bitch totalitarian apologist. Just completely ignore the entire history of humanity and the role of women, & you avoid the role given to women with creationism.

  • @Mariet31 ....I have absolutely no idea what you are on about. =P

    Me? A feminist? Lol sure - I also believe in Black Superiority. :P

  • @atheistkyo Holly crap, sorry for you americans.. You have many christian idiots 75% That's awful!!!

  • @atheistkyo

    So you're a left-wing shit-face who thinks that people are children who are too dumb to handle the truth, so it's ok to lie to them. You liberal assholes are all alike-- and you start wars and cause dpressions in your pseudo-intellectual arrogance and delusions of grandeur.

  • @atheistkyo he did a speech in 2004 where he makes fun of the bible, so he probably is indeed an atheist.

  • @atheistkyo hahaha.

  • lol barack isn't religious, but he knows how to play both sides...

  • @DaShot2daheart that is correct

  • @DiosanXaquerry thnx

  • @DaShot2daheart but what i want to know is what is the roots of his rage ?

  • @DaShot2daheart You have to, to be elected to any political office because like he said 90% of Americans believe in god. lol you need that 90% to get elected. I agree he is a very smart man unlike some people...

  • @DaShot2daheart no, he is a devout christian but not a fundy like palin

  • Not only is he nuts, he's schizophrenic too. Now look you've got Obama who actually has half a brain and he's doing your country a world of good (fixing his own country instead of other peoples). It doesn't surprise me he is agnostic/atheist (in my view). Although of course he'll never admit he's an atheist (wonder why?).

  • @davenavarroforpm because of dumbasses like the one you are "debating" with... thats why

  • Bill Clinton is a agnostic too, i think...

  • To be honest, I cant blame him for pretending to be religious. It's the only way he was able to be elected, and improve the country. Sometimes, a white lie can do alot of good.

  • We all know that the guy is a secularist, at worst an agnostic. Its just sad that American politicians have to lie about their "faith" to get elected.

  • It's amazing to me religion is so widely excepted but when Dennis Kucinich said he saw a ufo everyone gave him shit for it. Is the possibility of life in the universe more far fetched than a man who supposedly walked on water and magically congered up bread and fish. I think not.

    Oh politics, I love/hate you.

  • Obama exploited the religious stupidity of the blacks to get a start in politics. I laugh at all the theo-tards who act like all you have to do is bulid and go to churches and all the social problems will disappear. If that was so, the most law abiding, well educated, well behaved people would be blacks and hispanics, folowed by bible belt rednecks

  • I'm so glad we finally have another atheist president, even if he is in the closet. We haven't had a bonified rational president in this country since Lincoln.

  • wut a crock of shit, all politicians understand that the majority of america believes in god. They use this to further their agenda.

  • 'I came to religion late in life' - translation - I realised I needed the God card for election.

  • @PrimaIScream PrimalScream- "I'm an athiests but i hate that some of the world are religious so i try to convience everyone that people who believe only believe to get votes" LOSER! HAHA!

  • @lfc4fife Typing Loser and HaHa in caps doesn't mean you win. It makes you a total mug. He was raised with no religion by his mother and he doesn't go to church too often. CUNT! HAHA!.

  • @PrimaIScream so his parents were atheists... that makes him an athiest? My Granny and Granda were atheist and at the age of 23 while getting her PhD in Astronomy and Philosophy she became a Born Again Christain. So why did she lie about believing in god?

  • @lfc4fife I can remember my original point, it was 6 months ago, the second even a moderate or reserved person goes into politics it becomes all about God. Policies fourth, Character third, Family second, God first.  It's pathetic. (2 & 3 might be interchangable.)

  • wow there he goes again cutting down christian faith if you followed the ten commandments you wouldnt rape or do anything that he mentioned i feel sorrow for this sad sad mad

  • Wasn't his mother or father an atheist?

  • @stemcgolf  His so-called Muslim father was.

  • jee!

    he sounds like an atheist covering up.

    thats good though!!! he is not scary

  • Yeah, he really does talk like an atheist who's trying to come off as a Christian :)

    Which is not a bad thing, IMO. It's just a fact that many people in the US today would not vote for an atheist, so the intelligent and capable atheists that go into politics will have to hide this a little bit longer, until it becomes fully acceptable.

  • @BRtankbuster It shows he is a liar. Lying is not a good quality for the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. Besides you should not hide your beliefs or non-beliefs. It is just silly.

  • What if the non-beliefs will make it impossible for you to be elected (as they would, in fact)?

    If you believed that you were the best candidate to run the country and you knew that your non-beliefs would not change your capabilities for leadership, would you not lie a bit about the one thing that would stop ignorant people from voting for you?

    I know what I'd do.

    Oh and by the way: everybody lies.

  • If you cannot be elected just because you have no beliefs you obviously were not good enough to be elected in the first place. Everyone may lie, but that is just something stupid to lie about.

  • No, it means that if you want to lead a country that has foolish prejudices, you will have to lie about that little thing.

    It's not a stupid thing to lie about: it was a necessary thing to lie about, and as much as you value honesty, the fact remains that people would simply not have elected because of his religious beliefs, rather than his skills to lead the US.

  • Then maybe an atheist should stop worrying about prejudices that don't exist, and start working on a better campaigne. If you don't suck as a candidate you will win. It is not that hard look at the president we have now.

  • Wrong. Up to 52% of Americans says they wouldn't even consider voting for an atheist candidate for presidency.

    Wake up: you live in a country with lots of prejudices and it IS necessary for an atheist to lie to get into office, no matter how talented or smart or qualified they are.

  • You do realize that you could win an election with 48% of the votes depending on how many electoral votes you get right?

    That fact is people are not prejudice against atheist's. It's politics. If someone believes this nation is ruled under God the fact that a canidate does while the other does not is going to influence their vote. Nothing prejudice about it. That has to do with their policy completely.