Nick Lee of the American Atheist Aliance shares his thoughts on the Reason Rally.

Nick Lee of the American Atheist Aliance shares his thoughts on the Reason Rally.

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• Reason Rally
• American Atheist

[deSkepticon]

@Trickkynickkable If you have permission or someone to go with you perhaps, there are busses going for very cheap roundtrip. Google reason rally bus. Also the Secular Student Alliance is offering a 50% discount for the bus fare for anyone. Look that up too.

[Trickkynickkable]

im 16 and i know 1 atheist, never talked to another,never seen another atheist How the fuck can i go? i dont have a car! madness

[SweetSodaChick]

@BrotherMichael1000 That's great for you, but I wasn't talking about you. I was referring to "most people", which you said you think are ambivalent towards someone's religion. When "most people" are truly undecided, atheism won't be so widely misunderstood, and an atheist would be able to become a president if he or she had the best qualifications for the job. Right now, that's far from being the case.

[BrotherMichael1000]

@SweetSodaChick Did you even read the personal message I sent you? I don't care what presidents profess or believe. How can you trust the word of anyone who changes the story depending on what crowd they are speaking in front of? Why would I be afraid of a muslim? I do not hate atheists but I do disagree with them. Does disagreement mean hatred? Whether a man is religious or not means very little. What fruit does he bare? I'm off to work now.

[SweetSodaChick]

@BrotherMichael1000 I don't know which state (or country) you live in, but if people were ambivalent towards nonreligion, they wouldn't force every single U.S. President to regularly profess his faith in the christian God. And being a "muslim" wouldn't frighten people so much, people wouldn't debate whether Hitler was religious or not, and atheists wouldn't be basically the most disliked group in America, only second to the tea party.

[SweetSodaChick]

@TheRightOffensive Guess that answers my question.

[BrotherMichael1000]

@SweetSodaChick nonreligious doesn't mean atheist or agnostic. Most people are completely ambivalent toward religion or nonreligion. They honestly just don't care.

[TheRightOffensive]

@SweetSodaChick Shhhh

[SweetSodaChick]

@BrotherMichael1000 ....I base all of my opinions on established facts, not propaganda or television pundits. Why would anyone who sees ignorance stay content with still being like that? Just saying.

Anybody can Google anything. You know, Wikipedia is back up now - "percentage of non-religious in America". Copy and paste, click - I totally just did half the work for you.

[SweetSodaChick]

@TheRightOffensive Nobody talks to me like that personally because, know what, I don't feel the need to let others know my (non)beliefs. Please don't tell me you honestly think there aren't atheists being told those things constantly. Do you know anything about fundamentalists and evangelicals?