HOORAY for STARK!!!!!!!!

Where can I write him a Thankyou card?????

This is a great story. It’s a shame that we need
to know anything about the personal beliefs of
our elected government officials. The decisions and
acts made and performed by the elected need be
based solely on knowledge (provable fact) and not
in any measure tainted by belief. If law and governance
were based on knowledge we would have arrived at a
state where “all men (people) are created equal”
and treated as equals many decades ago. But then
too we might also have substituted born for “created”
by this time.

YES! One man comes out with the words most of us want to hear! However, we’ll have to see how he backs his claim. I want more atheists and non-theist in government - in fact I’d like to see a totally god-free government - but I’m done with “claims”.

Every “claim” by the Bushies have not only been proven false, the entire administration has been proven as nothing but a godless, evil, filthy manipulation of the powerless used to pump the egos of bullies, killers and money-hungry men and women who will do anything at all to make themselves rich and powerful and to hell with everyone who isn’t. And that includes the Demoncrats as well.

I want to see a government filled with Constitutionalists who do not want to manipulate the language of the Constitution, but who want to uphold its freedom of ALL. Which it does fine on its own.

Let’s hope this starts a trend. Then I suppose we’ll see what people are made of on their own, without the possibility of showing up and sucking the asses of “christians” on televised weep-a-thons with claims of “mistakes” and “errors” and being forgiven by some invisible and ineffectual “god” in order to run for office again.

Dear Newt Gingrich,
Forget your aspirations. Only the most idiotic religious who were never allowed a school book outside of a bible or a teacher outside of inbred church groups believe your bullshit. You are not forgiven. Crawl back in your hole and die.

Love,
The Greater Majority with brains

Hoooooooraaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!

Stark just joined Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Clemens,
Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank,
Clarence Seward Darrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Frost,
Pearl S. Buck, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Campbell,
Katherine Hepburn, John Chancellor, Carl Sagan and
uncounted thousands of living and deceased Americans
with the brains to change our world and the courage to
admit it is the only world we will ever know. Our country
should lead the modern enlightenment.

Maybe more closet atheists will come out. If only those that worship the office more than truth were outed, we would have a country based on truth and not on ceremonial lies. Where is the morality in hypocrisy and dishonesty? If a politician will lie and hide his true beliefs, what else will he do that is without integrity? Did Cunningham and Taft steal in Jesus’s name? Did Dubya lie about WMD in Jesus’s name? And than there are the Clinton’s…

I hope I live to see the day when atheistic freedoms are enshrined in my country’s (Canada) Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

I believe I have the right to be governed by reason and knowledge and that my human rights are not subject to the supremacy of a god’s law. Unfortunately my country’s Charter appears to say otherwise at the moment.

To me there is only one “god” and its name is “Mother Nature.”  Good or bad we are blessed and punished by this god.

I believe that eons ago when primitive man had evolved enough to do some rational thinking, those with a manipulative bent realized that mankind’s fearful reactions to natural disasters could be used to their benefit.  What better to invent than a “supreme being” from which all came and to which we were all answerable. This happened before the dispersion of the original inhabitants to places all over the globe - or maybe before the tectonic plates separated into different continents.

Somewhere along the way, now in their separate regions of the globe, these manipulators defined the rules of the game and “religions” were born. This process continues to this day. All fiction.

Now if Rep. Pete Stark and other non-believers would unite and adopt “Mother Nature” as the only true “god”, imagine how the planet would be transformed.

Maria Weaver

well glory hallaluyah.  its true its true there ain’t no god.  how embarrassing that so many people still believe such childishness.  in politics gays come out of the closet, barney franks comes to mind, but for someone to say something as simple as there ain’t no god, just seems to be next to impossible, here in america.  instead of single payer health care and free education, preschool thru graduate, we have religion.

As a foreigner with a keen interest in the US
I’m glad; finally a politician ‘came out the
closet’ as it were. Hopefully others will follow
his example, because I’m convinced there are a
lot more. To many people in Europe it seemed
like America was more and more developing
towards a kind of theocracy. Hopefully Stark has
set a precedent, that will break through the
wall of religious fundamentalism.

We are informed that:

“a recent Gallup poll showed that while 92 percent of Americans would support a Jewish presidential candidate, only 45 percent would vote for an atheist”

What a shame that Gallup didn’t ask what percentage of “Americans” (North Americans I presume…) would support a Jewish atheist candidate for president.
Would it be higher or lower than 45% ?

Rep. Stark’s interpretation and understanding of the spiritual world, our Universe and the many mysteries of Nature are obviously his own choice.

His freedom to believe as he pleases are important, as are the liberties of all Americans on a wide range of topics.

Figuring out what is going on is difficult at times.

An area where science, spirituality, psychology, physics, Nature and intelligence operations seem to converge are the subjects of “remote viewing” and “anomalous cognition.”

A Navy SEAL officer’s research into this area is interesting. Read more about it in the article referenced below:

“Unconventional Human Intelligence Support: Navy SEAL’s report”

By Steve Hammons
Columnist, PopulistAmerica.com
Populist Party of America
January 7, 2007

http://www.populistamerica.com/unconventional_human_intelligence_support

well like it or not this guy has his opinions I personally do not agree but that is what makes the united states who we are

What is the difference between a “non-theist” and an “athiest?”  I hope it is just more than a title.

If God was real and had eyes and ears so he’ll never let Bush/Cheney sit on our heads !

Amen, brother!

I’d vote for a non-theist anytime!

Religious people can be so funny sometimes.  Take, for example, the viewpoint that if God doesn’t exist, then life is pointless.  Umm, why would life be pointless if “this” is all there is?

The answer usually given is that if life didn’t have eternal consequences, then people would kill, steal, and do all kinds of negative things to each other.  Nevermind, apparently, that all of those things ARE going on in the world today…and often committed by people who think there is an afterlife.

Hunh, go figure.

Being a progressive Jew, I find it hard to believe that “92% of Americans would support a Jewish presidential candidate.” I live in California and still feel pressured to hide my faith from some, let alone publicize it. And I hardly doubt that any southerners would be any more tolerant. If our country has voted a reborn christian neoconservative into office twice now (even though he actually stole the elections, but it was still close), I don’t think a Jew would have a chance.

In addition, unitarians or atheists are probably tolerated even more so in a state like California because we are composed primarily of secular moderates. Hopefully Stark will be the first of many. Maybe one day our government might actually practice the doctrine of ‘Separation of Christian Church and State’!

One more comment to the liberals . . . there is a big freaking difference between the Jewish people and the Israeli state! At least get your rhetoric right.

It’s time for atheists and other non-religious people in this country to come out of their “closet” and put an end to the de-facto theocracy that is establishing itself in this country. I think people would be amazed at the true numbers of this “minority”.

Kudos to Pete Stark.  It takes both integrity and a good deal of intestinal fortitude for an American politician to openly announce that he or she does not believe in God, especially in the face of the onslaught of fundamentalist Christians whom Chris Hedges aptly describes as “American Facists.”

Hope he introduces legislation to tax religion as commercial business and start the process to doom all religion!