Why is bush considering us atheist as non citizens?

Question

I've been hearing from a lot of people saying that bush said that Atheist in his eyes are not citizens or patriotic, exscuse me for the misspellings. But What happen to freedom of religion.

Not trying to be disrespectful to anyone but If we atheist shouldn't be citizens then they should take "In god we trust" off of the american money and make it to something like "United we stand Divided we fall".

Answer 1

That was Bush, Sr.

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." ~ President George Bush (Sr.), August 27, 1987.

Read the whole exchange here: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

His son, our current president, on the other hand, has stated that he considers atheist Americans to be no less American and no less patriotic than any other kind of American.

"I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to." ~ President George W. Bush, at the University of Arizona October 13th, 2004

"My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor." ~ Pres. George W. Bush, May 28, 2004

More quotes at: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/quote-b4.htm

Answer 2

I think Chavez Said it best … "The devil came here yesterday,"

Bush may not be the devil but he is certainly in league with him…

“Losing My Religion” Consider this hint of the century…

Jesus said… “I am … the bright and morning star.” —Revelation 22:16

i.e., “I am Lucifer…” In his own words, though most did not know that the Morning Star is the planet Venus that stands for Lucifer a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring")

We can find original text written in Greek, Latin as well as Hebrew. The Greek alphabet was assigned numerical values (The X gives the Z sound of Xylophone) X (=Chi) 600; Xi (shaped like a curled capital E) 60 and S (Sigma) 6. (Although Sigma is no longer used, it was) Thus 600, 60 and 6 spells XES, the Greek spelling for Zeus. In the KJV translation - where the name of the prophet Elisha (meaning 'My God is Saviour') has been retained in the paganised form 'Eliseus' (My god is Zeus). In similar fashion, the Name of the Hebrew Messiah YAHU'SHUAH (meaning 'YAHU is Saviour') has been paganised to read 'JeZeus', ('God is Zeus') which later became 'Jesus' in the English language (pronounced 'Jezus').

600 (X), 60 (Xi,=E), 6 (S) the number of his name, clearly spells XES the original Greek spelling for ZEUS.

"In Thy Light shall we SEE LIGHT" THE SEAL OR MARK OF YHWH OR THE SEAL OR MARK OF CHRIST JESUS STIGMATA (the lord)=666. Christ=Kristos or fish-Dagon=600, Jesus=Iesus or Zeus=60, Stigma=6. Lord=Baal-"god of the sun" Chi, Xi, Stigma is # 5516 in Strong's Concordence, the "666" of Rev. 13:18-The initials of the name

Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.”

Answer 3

I've heard a similar statement attributed to George H W Bush. I totally agree about the currency and raise you a Prayer of Allegiance.

Answer 4

This is about as silly as Americans considering Bush the president after two elections full of criminal activity that was covered up by republican operatives.

love and blessings Don

Answer 5

Like Father - Like son. Both of the Bush's are active fundamentalist, of the old kind, but they like to be called Evangelical Christians now days, its more P.C. You should be ashamed of yourselves, not only did you put a nutter in power, but you voted him back in for a second term.

He was elected by the people, and frankly if you don't like what you have got, tough, hes in for a few more years, and all those religious nuts that paid for him have access to the power plays. Then you can get rid of the fool by voting with your head, not wallets. Perhaps next time you will be More careful with your vote!

Answer 6

Unless you are one of these holier than thou Evangelicals, Bush has no regard for you. Simple as that-only 2 more years! Wish he'd go sooner.

Answer 7

So if I am a non citizen, I should not have to pay taxes and should be exempt from all laws. I think all Atheists should ban together on this. He is not too bright, as we have seen in the past.

Answer 8

I have never heard Mr. George W. Bush state that.

Answer 9

the two. i'm agnostic because of the fact i understand that the existence of gods won't be in a position to be disproven, as they're so poorly defined (and whether we did determine a definition, it would be made as unfalsifiable as conceivable, so disproving it would be perplexing to impossible). individual gods themselves may well be falsifiable. as an occasion, i'm specific the Abrahamic god(s) do no longer exist. i'm atheist because of the fact I lack the thought in all deities (whether i'm no longer specific all of them do no longer exist).

Answer 10

yea, he said in an interview in '87 that he thought atheists should not be considered citizens, his exact words in the interview are:
"No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God"...just another example of his bigotry.

http://www.skeptictank.org/gbush.htm