At least Obama recognized us NON BELIEVERS
 

best line he said was to include atheists in his speech.

Yes, that was great to hear actually. :2 cents:

Indeed, I picked up on it. He knows how to please the masses.

I thought I was the only one impressed by that. I was just thinking "what about us" when he mentioned non-believers at the end of his list of silly religions.

yeah all 5% of us.

Did he mention anything about Agnostics?

what was he supposed to say "all those who might sort of kind of believe possibly then maybe might not"?

LOL!

It was good to hear us non-believers included.

Same here.

Very smart and respectful of him.

He left out us Satan Worshipers

Hmmph!

I was pretty happy that we were mentioned.

because they are stupid.

I was happily surprised by that.

I was completely impressed by this, so many other presidents have forgotten religions other than there own, including the non religious. It was almost refreshing to hear.

I'm not sure.

haha yeh he said "non believers" that was awesome

That was ignorant to say.

That's because gatorb is mentally challenged (a special boy)

Good for him

No it's not. If you believe in Satan you must believe in God and not to spoil anything for those who haven't read the book, but God wins in the end. So to take the side of the loser knowing he's going to lose, is in fact stupid.

Precisely when did I piss in your Cheerios?

yup 5% of us who believe in common sense and science

good point mofo

One of things good on Obama he gives credit to those who doesnt think like him.For example he said how Mccain is good(during camping),then first there was priest who was anti gay and later priest who was pro gay.

IM not one to take up for satanists, however, Satanism as it is practiced by many is far from "devil worship" or the worshipping of Lucifer. Satanism is more along the lines of Selfism,...

satanism is not the worship of satan. Laveyan satanism is quite the opposite... satanism teaches individualism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism

I guess it was not just a random idea for the sake of talking. It was indeed a very important sentence of the speech

Sorry to break it to you but life isn't like a Disney movie. :2 cents:

yeah that was cool.
i've never heard anything like that before.

*kisses***

well i personally think it was good, he did a "FIRST" even in his speech.

No other President in Americas history has done what he did.

He can be christian, that is fine with me, but do not label atheists as anything but a true and devout way of thinking. I voted for him and I am as atheist/antitheist as you can be. I am glad he said it.

I applaud him.

Yeah but the post he's talking about didn't refer to Satanism, but to worshipping Satan. And I'm pretty sure the person who made that comment in the first place was just taking the piss.

Kevin Lomax: In the Bible you lose. We're destined to lose dad.
John Milton: Well consider the source son.

A shout out to all the Hell-bound out there!!

so nice of him

Like 99.9% of your posts to date?

"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus ? and non-believers"

I took that to mean Mormans and Buddhists are non-believers. :upsidedow

As a Pantheistic Quasi-Discordianist I am angered that I was left out.

Very good, I have never understood why still so many Americans are religious.

I can't believe how a developed country like American has not more common sense about religion fairytales.

I was happy to hear that included in Obama's speech. :thumbsup

My wife (whom is Buddhist), did ask why he left out Buddhists... :1orglaugh

ADG

Actually, I applaud his entire speech - but yeah, especially him acknowledging the atheists among us. He did a tremendous job to give shout-outs to a very wide range of the public.

He also mentioned about the people who do their work in "obscurity" to keep the country functioning. Too often it seems as if only the 'celebrities' or people in high profile/political positions are given all the credit.

It was a great speech - I'm sure will go down in history as among the greatest inaugural speeches ever made.

Although I still support Harper here in Canada...damn, I wish we had a charismatic leader like Obama north of the border.

It will get worse as things get worse economically. People will cling stronger to their religious bullshit the worse it gets... At least that is what has always happened historically :(

I gotta hand it to him.. that was the one line of the speech that nearly brought tears to my eyes... lol... nah but seriously .. it was gr8!

how could he forget

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I don't know, I am a little conflicted on this one. I think I would have rather heard him use the term atheists or those who believe in something else.

To me, saying "non-believers" smacks of condescension, especially with its placement in the sentence. As if to say, "Oh... and you guys too. The ones that are ignorant of the truth."

I guess it is the thought that counts. And if anyone cares, no I am not atheist but I do detest organized religion.

Obama's father is an atheist, so it is no surprise he would say non-believers.