Do you think George Bush Senior was right when he suggested that atheists should not be considered citizens ?

Question

The full quote :

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Note : On Flag Day, June 14, 1954, Congress passed the legislation adding the phrase "under God" to the Pledge.

This has not existed since the founding of the USA and has nothing to do with the principles of what the USA was founded on.

If you believe they shouldn't be considered citizens now, do you think they should have been considered citizens before 1954 ?

Answer 1

It has everything to do with the principles the USA was founded on. (i.e. slavery, elitism, etc)


That being said, of course I do not agree with him.

Answer 2

First of all the word citizen is nothing more than a front for what they really want to use, which is slave. If you are born in this country and have been given a birth certificate, your parent or parents have unknowingly volunteered you into slavery (economic slavery). Each citizen is owned by the government like heads of cattle. The issue of belief works to keep the sheeple from finding out what's really going on. If they can use the greatest method of war, divide and conquer they keep the sheeple fighting amongst themselves over mundane matters, while at the same time they are raping the "citizens" of their natural rights born rights. The so called government was designed to "SERVE & PROTECT" it's people not the other way around. I'm sure most will dismiss this explanation out of fear of truth and ignorance, but when the shhhhhhhhhhh! hits the fan don't say you have not been made aware. Do some research and find out if what I am saying here is B.S. The U.S. is not a country it's a corporation, most are seeing this reality on very small scale, and that is only because of a lack of true information. Schools are not teaching it's citizens the truth about history or anything else, it's teaching our children what it is that it wants them to know, for the purpose of maintaining control over the mind. This includes all religions.

Answer 3

I might be an athiest, but it would be wrong to remove "under god" from the pledge. This wonderful country was founded "under god" and whether or not we believe that he exists, it is still a part of our history.

I am an athiest, and I love this country, why sould I not be considered a citizen

This next comment has nothing to do with anyone here, I just feel like venting

I'm sick of people baggin' on the USA. If you don't like it here, then leave. Oh, you don't want to, you say? Then shut the f*** up.

(that "shut the f-** up" was not directed at you, you asked a great question, and yes, George Bush Sr. was a wacko.)

Answer 4

Well, what do you expect from a drug lord and terrorist? What was that moral citizen doing hanging out with members of the Bin Laden family on 9/11? Just how much money is his Carlyle Group making on the so-called 'War on Terror'?

This guy has the nerve to say that Atheists shouldn't be considered citizens?

Answer 5

That's just rediculous. He's obviously completely lacking the ability for independant thought and thinks that unless someone follows the masses blindly, as most Christians do, then they can't truly love their country.

Well that is just not true. I love this country just as much, if not more than G Dubbs because I recognize that without our freedoms, he wouldn't have been able to make such a statement. I understand that he has the right to his opinion, but it is not right for him to try and use his religious opinions to try and change the government.

Whatever happened to the seperation of church and state?

Answer 6

I think that was a grave misstep by the former President Bush. When you are the head of such a diverse nation with many different belief systems you play the game of political correctness when speaking publicly no matter what your own personal feelings are. He obvious spoke his mind a little too much.

Answer 7

It's okay to have that opinion.. but it's not true.. how can one president say that but yet everyone lets mexicans run into this country everyday and we support them..I would rather have an attheist american living on my dime then some mexican that isn't even a citizen..

Answer 8

I cannot believe he said that. Ugh figures. I love how the Bush family respects ones right to choose their own religious beliefs or lack their of. Ahh America.

Answer 9

You fail to give the reference for the quote... why should we believe you?

Even so... it's a free country and everyone has the right to free speech and an opinion... even if not correct.

Answer 10

I do NOT agree. What he said was against the principles of the Constitution and completely moronic.