Voting, Dominionism and the Northern California Chocolate Snake

I dunno why peeps keep sayin' she's hot. I'm hotter than she is.

I heart my chubby, protestant, East Coast sister and her blog for USA Today. She blogs about politics but she just reports the facts (like a real journalist, not a blogger). In her article today she talks about how Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann recently said something like...the hurricanes and earthquakes on the East Coast is Gawd punishing us. So come on people, let Gawd back into politics and the public square (my words not hers, but that is the 'jist' everyone always talks about). Needless to say, that is very dangerous.

Was it on Saturday, @vjack over at Atheist Revolution made his Idiot of the Week none other than Pat Roberston, again (BTW, check in every week for his I.o.t.W). The Pat-Man recently said...

"Ladies and gentlemen I don’t want to get weird on this so please take it for what it’s worth. But it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power, it has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and say this is one nation under God. Now there’s a crack in it, there’s a crack in it and it’s closed up. Is that a sign from the Lord? Is that something that has significance or is it just result of an earthquake? You judge, but I just want to bring that to your attention. It seems to me symbolic. When Jesus was crucified and when he died the curtain in the Temple was rent from top to bottom and there was a tear and it was extremely symbolic, is this symbolic? You judge."

Dude are ya praying or trying to pinch a loaf, or as we say in Nor Cal...searching for the Northern California chocolate Snake.

And a couple of months back everyone's favorite news person, Bill "The tides go in, the tides go out" O' Riley said he doesn't know why or how the tides work, so it must be Gawd, right (actually it is the gravitational pull of the moon).

So here we are with a very important election cycle coming up and within a matter of months three separate and super stupid remarks from the Christian and Conservative Right. Traveling the Mighty Atheist Blogosphere and reading hella newspapers and magazines a day, it seems as if the prog-libs have already declared victory in the next election. The reasoning is how can the public vote for such weirdo's (Perry, Bachmann and Palin), this will be an easy victory. I have one word for people that believe that...remember the Al Gore election. We were supposed to win that one right. Remember.

Really peeps, the candidates are saying that plate tectonics and weather patterns are unknowns and that magically it is their particular Gawd that is creating havok, because why...because we have rejected him and need to bring him back to the public square. My last post was about dominionism and American exceptionalism and that is what Perry and Bachmann are showing. They are ignoring the science and they are substituting superstition in it's place. We know better and we should know better, but that is not the case all the way across the board.

Lately I have been asking, are there more of them, or are there more of us. Are there more science minded skeptic, nonblievers out there that will vote liberal, or are there more believers-believers that will vote for Gawds party no matter what policies are debated. I live in Nor Cal and it is the mecca of atheism and liberalism (even tho the Tea Party launched their "tour" in beautiful Napa last weekend), so I do not know what it is like in the rest of the nation. That is why I have fear.

I fear that the prog-libs will lose this next election and we will go back to Bush era democracy (please not another Texas president). Will we go Al Gore in this election and stay home and not vote because we know in our hearts that we will win.

We can't let that happen. It too important.

Get Your Vote On

Mmm, I missed this one the other day from the Chicago Tribune. Author James Kirk Wall asks the very important question who should Team Atheist, Team Secular and Team Skeptic vote for in the next election. There are obvious factors that all of American society must consider in this next election cycle like the economy and the environment, but it very well could be that the votes of the nonbelievers could tip the scale either way. We have concerns though.

The first one Wall introduces is...we are here and we are many. One of the great achievements of the New Atheists is that we are now recognized and dagnabit, we want a place at the political table. Our vote counts and it is many. 12% of the population is millions and millions. It doesn't matter if you are blue or red, if you are a nonbeliever that is your team and like I said earlier, we can tip the scales either way.

GLBT rights. The younger generation is so over hating the gay. That is something our parents and grandparents did. It just doesn't make sense to the younger generation to hate on same sex couples. As the numbers of religious peeps diminish, the numbers of GLBT supporters rises. That younger generation that I keep talking about just isn't going to church and they are not adopting the hate of their mothers and fathers.

Creationism in the science classroom, as I have said many times, is the first thingy that look at in a candidate. If you believe that creationism is equal to evolution and should be taught side by side in the same classroom, then you have to be very spectacular in other areas to get my vote. Richard "Papa Bear" Dawkins wrote a very eloquent letter to Gov. Rick Perry on this very topic.

The separation of church and state is violated left and right all of the time and I really wish the media would call politicians out on that (well see if that happens in this next election cycle). Let's see gov. Rick Perry just had his huge faith hoe down and the armed forces continually proselytize evangelical Christianity to the troops in the form of the super stupid spiritual fitness test, rock concerts and bible inscriptions (in place that they don't belong). This is why I keep pumping the idea of a secular society. Secular is for everyone. To promote one religion over another is just so unfair.

It doesn't matter if you want tax cuts or increases, or big government or small government, these secular issues go across the board. The education of the next generation will greatly effect this great nation on the global stage. Do we really want to teach creationism to children that are going to compete with India and China for jobs in science and technology. More than ever our vote, Team Atheist and Team Skeptic, is important and yes...it does count.

* Article Chicago Tribune.

Why indeed.