Meh, I'm not even a proper atheist. Takes too much faith. Agnostic is even stretching it. But consider me a fellow-traveler. They mentioned some stats on the McLaughlin Group as part of their "coverage" of the Day of Reason, some atheist rally in DC.
Bizarro. Pete Stark in California ("Representing the Bay Area," Nixon's priest intoned...) is the only avowed atheist in Congress, but the website for the Day of Reason says there's 28. The question: what is it about our politics that would make people be closeted atheists?
The answer infuriated me... some panelist said people can't trust you if you don't believe in an afterlife.
Holy crap -- where does that put me, as a Jew? Most Christians thing I'll be a crispy critter when their Friends in High Places get a hold of me... and I'm not scared of
that. And for that matter, Jews are pretty ambivalent of the character of the afterlife/resurrection. None of it is required belief.
Is that why we can't be trusted?
See I thought it was because we owned the banks and the media...