mormon president?

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thinking that we could possibly have a mormon president is on the same level of crazy as that we could possibly have a scientologist president.


and yes, i know freedom of religion.....doesn't mean freedom to implement religion in government. but yes, it does mean freedom FROM religion if the individual so chooses.


still don't get how people could buy into such a wackjob religion as mormonism....or scientology for that matter. they're not even millenia old where people don't know any better...at most, mormonism is just a couple centuries old. scientology is at least set up like a scam to where people normally don't know what they're buying into for a while. mormonism is just straight up crazy.

thinking that we could possibly have an atheist president is on the same level of crazy as that we could possibly have a scientologist president.


and yes, i know freedom from religion.....doesn't mean freedom to eliminate the religious in government. but yes, it does mean freedom of religion if the individual so chooses.


still don't get how people could buy into such a wackjob thing like atheism....or scientology for that matter. they're not even millenia old where people don't know any better...at most, atheism is just a couple centuries old. scientology is at least set up like a scam to where people normally don't know what they're buying into for a while. atheism is just straight up crazy.

ooop i've gone and offended a mormon.



it's okay.....it's okay...if there were a god, he'd strike me down right now for swearing against him.


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.....still alive. oh well.

The US Supreme Court in Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson 1952 held that the New York State blasphemy law was an unconstitutional prior restraint on freedom of speech. The court stated that "It is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine, whether they appear in publications, speeches or motion pictures."

I would rather vote for an Atheist, but sadly there are never any frontrunning Atheists. Every main candidate is SOME sort of Christian.

I do agree that Mormonism is a farce though. It was proven that there weren't Jews in South America....Scientology is even worse though. Better a Mormon than a Scientologist in my opinion...

Since all religion is illogical and only a religious persons likely can be elected in most of the US I doubt it makes much difference if they are followers of a modern fake or an old fashion fake religion. We assume some how a person must be more nutty to follow the modern religions but that may not be true at all.

The US president is required to say that they believe in a "higher being"

An atheist president would be better.

From a constitutional standpoint, I don't believe an atheist is "not allowed" to be President (although some constitutional scholars from the 18th century, some of which I generally respect, thought this to be the case).

It is true that the words "so help me God" are by custom and are not in the Constitution itself.

The reasons Americans (50% of them aprox.) would not vote for an atheist for President probably has to do with a worry that a person (more so then a secularist or an agnostic) would not understand or be respectful to America's religious traditions.