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When will the US elect an agnostic/atheist president?

the atheist/agnostic percentage of the population is at 12-18% and growing. If you adhere to a religion, would you vote for an atheist/agnostic that was a competent leader?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I would vote for a atheist/agnostic~~I have my beliefs and I believe

    most of the past president were not always honest spouting their beliefs

    Separation of Church and State~~this is what I believe

  • Never. Atheists are the last minority who can be crapped on at will. Comrade Obama, King Bush, Bill O'Reilly, Kweef Olbermann, Al Sharpton, Fred Phelps and Nancy Pelosi would all gladly join hands and shout to the world that atheists are evil because they don't believe in an imaginary man up in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day.

    Source(s): Proud atheist.
  • 1 decade ago

    Already have - although he never ran as an atheist.

    And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

    -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The population of agnostics/atheists would have to grow to at least half of the country, and even then, it would not guarantee it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I would prefer an atheist/agnostic president.

    Who knows when that will be though.

    -it is true that it is possible we've had atheist presidents. But like was said, they can't admit that and be elected.

    I have a ?

    Is that statistic actually of people who are proclaimed atheist/agnostics or just non-religious?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We probably have, but on one has been an openly agnostic/atheist.

  • 1 decade ago

    Probably not in my lifetime. I would vote for an atheist/agnostic if they were qualified.

  • 1 decade ago

    Pardon me, but when a man acts as Bush and Reagan did, they CANNOT believe in the traditional religious idea of punishment for wrongdoing in the afterlife. There's just NO WAY they can.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Never.

    A muslim will be elected President before an atheist or agnostic.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I hope to see it in my life time. Many of the older generations are religious loons and they need to die first. I would say....2036.

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