Friday, August 19, 2005

salman rushdie on religion/islam/church&state

"I remember a big opinion poll taken by The New York Times in which people were asked whether they would accept as a presidential candidate a woman, a Jew, an African American, a homosexual, and an atheist. In four of those five measures, the result was resoundingly yes, by a gigantic majority, but for an atheist it was no better than 50-50. Somebody who overtly professes not to have religion can’t get elected dog catcher in this country. That’s a problem, because it creates a political discourse full of sanctimony. Hypocrisy sanctified by religion."

http://www.reason.com/0508/fe.sd.the.shtml

1 Comments:

Blogger bostongraf said...

Incredible quote. In a country that has its rule #1 defined as atheism (or at least agnostism), an atheist faces an insurmountable hurdle when trying to get elected.

4:03 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home