"We do: there are no penalties for being an atheist, no bar to any office"
The idiot here would be the one who took my words above and distorted them. I never claimed an atheist (it's not a religion so shouldn't be capitalized) could be elected currently. ALL I claimed, truthfully, was that there is no legal bar to an atheist running for election for ANY office.
People have previously been certain that a Catholic or a Black could never be elected as POTUS, and certain that a woman or a Jew would never be on a major party's Presidential ticket......
The idiot here would be the one who took my words above and distorted them. I never claimed an atheist (it's not a religion so shouldn't be capitalized) could be elected currently. ALL I claimed, truthfully, was that there is no legal bar to an atheist running for election for ANY office.
People have previously been certain that a Catholic or a Black could never be elected as POTUS, and certain that a woman or a Jew would never be on a major party's Presidential ticket......