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**RotsLoado** · 09-21-2007, 01:03 AM

Originally posted by aneeshm
A genuine question.

If there were an atheist politician (assuming such a thing can exist) in your country, and he called Jesus (or equivalent figure of reverence) a:

a) Lie,
b) Drunkard, and
c) Evil racist imperialist,

would he be electable anywhere?

More generally - would an atheist politician, running on an anti-religion platform, be electable?

Also, would it be appropriate for him (or any other politician) to make such statements, or to run on such a platform? I'd think the politician would be retarded for criticizing a major religious figure without textual/historical evidence.

09-21-2007, 01:03 AM	#9
RotsLoado Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 634 Senior Member	Originally posted by aneeshm A genuine question. If there were an atheist politician (assuming such a thing can exist) in your country, and he called Jesus (or equivalent figure of reverence) a: a) Lie, b) Drunkard, and c) Evil racist imperialist, would he be electable anywhere? More generally - would an atheist politician, running on an anti-religion platform, be electable? Also, would it be appropriate for him (or any other politician) to make such statements, or to run on such a platform? I'd think the politician would be retarded for criticizing a major religious figure without textual/historical evidence.
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