This is an interesting statement. Have you seen a study, or are you speaking from personal experience?
From what second hand information I have come across, they talk about challenges they face and ways to overcome them as well as ways to reach out to other atheists. It is also an opportunity to socialize with other people with similar ideas. I suppose there is a bit of a "support group" aspect, as atheists can be somewhat shunned by some of the religious majority.
Thankfully, neither do most Iowans.
In a side note, "the Bible" is also what he calls his p.e.n.i.s.
If you can come up with a way to have a volunteer paramedic available to all of Linn (and surrounding) counties 24/7, then I welcome it.
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
-George Carlin
Which version? The original, or the one that was amended in the 1950's?
Don't bother looking at the politicians, you won't find many there.
It isn't for most rational people. It only seems to be a difficult concept for the overtly religious.
Just seconding Beahcies... Read Article XI of the Treaty of Tipoli - "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
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