Candidates face rising ‘nontheist’ voting bloc

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A Pew poll this year found that religious “nones” make up one-fifth of all registered voters in the country — about in line with the percentage of white evangelical Protestants, who comprise a crucial piece of the Republican coalition.

David Lane, a social conservative activist who has sought to recruit pastors to run for political office, said the country has lost its Judeo-Christian heritage to a certain extent and that it’s up to religiously inspired voters to turn out and vote if they hope to reverse that trend.

“If we stay home, somebody’s values are going to reign supreme,” Mr. Lane said. “You’re putting in people, secularists, who have no biblically based foundation, and they’re going to impose their radical social agenda on Americans who work, who go home, who teach Sunday school, who coach little league. These are radicals.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/18/atheist-agnostic-secular-voting-bloc-rising-in-ame/

[maxsolomon]

1. Hey, David Lane: Fuck off.

Why are you linking to the Washington Times?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. "Why are you linking to the Washington Times?"

Explain why I shouldn't, and if I like your explanation I'll delete this post.

[maxsolomon]

3. Its owned by Moonies

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. Are you the censor here?

[maxsolomon]

5. Yes, yes i am the censor here.

[trof]

7. It's the Fox News of print media.

Blatantly way right wing.
I'd automatically not believe anything I read there, if I ever read there.
But it's a free country.
Link away.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

8. Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in awhile.

I don't like the moonies or fox, people on here post about morning joe all the time and I think he's just as bad as the moonies and fox news, nobody tries to stop their posts?

[lindysalsagal]

6. It's really 23% or more in many states.

Plus, depending on how you pose the question, the number doubles. In CT, 54% have an absolute belief in god. That means 46% don't. CT is hAlf atheist.

[sarcasmo]

9. I remember in the 80's fighting to have "None" put on my dog tags.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Thnx for this.

It is refreshing to see the religious Reich start wetting their collective Depends. Their trend is like a triple black ski slope, while ours is like climbing the Matterhorn. Slow, but we are winning.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yep. Equality for LGBT citizens, legal weed, full frontal nudity on HBO

verily, it's a nightmarish dystopian 'Merika we promise to usher in.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. AWESOME. The radical agenda of equality, caring for each other and the Earth without regard

to color, creed or some religious book to bash people over the head with?

Yeah, it's radical. I'm that kind of radical. Let's do it!

[Wounded Bear]

17. Yeah, if only some religious teacher from antiquity had taught those things...

life would be so much better.

Oh, wait......

[blogslut]

13. Here's a link to the overview of the Pew Survey

http://www.pewforum.org/2016/07/13/evangelicals-rally-to-trump-religious-nones-back-clinton/

[eppur_se_muova]

14. "Americans who work, who go home, ... who coach little league" Um, non-theists do all those things.

True, they don't teach Sunday school, but that would seem so obvious as not to require explanation, and insufficient cause to label them "radicals".

So, when you see someone working, going home, or coaching little league, just remember YOU HAVE NO WAY TO TELL from that alone whether they are part of the "Judeo-Christian heritage" or not. David Lane, apparently, assumes that only godly people -- specifically, his version of "godly" people -- are capable of, or interested in, doing such things as working, going home, or coaching, or, presumably, doing anything decent. Only the Bible, it seems, can justify civilized behavior.

[gollygee]

15. Non-theists can teach Sunday School at a Unitarian Universalist church.

Really they do everything everyone else does, except believe in a God.

[OnionPatch]

16. The audacity of this man.

To assert that only Christians work and value their families. It's sickening.