“Are you f***g kidding me?!”

Was that actually necessary? Anyone else?

Are you a one issue voter? Is there no more dimension to you and your life than your atheism? It’s going to take generations to overcome the bigotry against atheists but in the meantime we are facing the very real threat of four to eight more years of the same bullshit ideological administration that has wiped its ass with the Constitution, reduced our freedoms and rights, bled us dry in a pack-of-lies war, ruined the environment, pushed civil rights back ten years, made the U.S the laughing stock of the world, lost us allies and made us more enemies. Atheists invited to their silly faith fest or not, we can’t afford another Republican plutocracy.

I consider you people my friends but please get your heads out of your god-free asses and see the bigger picture.

The the point where the ADL has even spoken up about this being worrisome.

This whole campaign–the whole political system we have–it’s bullshit, pure bullshit. It’s a playground of the rich and powerful manipulators who don’t give a shit about the little people like me. There are lots of good folks doing the grunt work of government, sure, but too many get sucked into that corrupting machine and come out the other end thinking only of themselves. Government service becomes just another job that doesn’t mean anything. At the top, where “power politics” is played, decisions get made that serve the interests of the big players, not of me.

I haven’t been represented in years, atheism aside. I have no voice. Yet, I pay my taxes, I support the system like most people; I’m part of the problem, but powerless to do anything about it. I realize that what we have now is an insane mix of self-serving entities and people in the millions, all channeled and led around by a relative few parasites. It’s an absurd system that has gone out of control.

It affects me, but I do not trust it, and I cannot depend upon it. It’s up to me to watch out for me–government no longer exists to protect and not restrict my liberty or to promote my welfare. It cannot be trusted because those that inhabit its offices are not to be trusted. I suppose I was a fool to ever believe in this or any form of government. I guess I let myself believe that a primitive species like ours was capable of rational self-government. We can do so much, but some things are beyond us.

I am grateful that I wasn’t born in some poor place where some warlord could just shoot me for his pleasure. I have had my share of good in this country, but it is no “city on a hill.” I chose twenty years ago to stop lying to myself about God; now I think I’ll stop lying to myself about this.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to exclude atheists from an “interfaith” gathering. I mean, in some respects atheism is just another religious category, and in other respects it isn’t.

What’s going on is that the Democrats are having a kickoff “Unity and values” meeting ahead of their convention. They use the word “Faith” to head it up so that they can specifically exclude people with non-traditional beliefs, so that they can stroke the exceptionalists.

This is all about them trying to distance themselves from the secular left and pandering to those members of religions who think that secularists are evil. And the SCA is laying a big turd in their punchbowl by making it visible and obvious that this is indeed what they’re doing. They hide behind weasel-words like “unity” and “values” when the meeting should really be called “God Wants You to Vote Democrat, God, God, God of all Faiths, But Mostly Jesus, Obama, Jesus, Obama, A Vote for Obama Equals a Vote For Jesus, One Rally Under God, Rally For Faith, Unity, Faith and Jesus……huh, wha? atheists? nonbelievers? ain’t none of them in the dem party, noooo way….Rally”.

It’s hard to blame people for mixing all those respects up when even I have trouble keeping them straight.

Oh, it’s completely straight in this instance. This is a pander parade, and we ain’t invited. Good on the SCA for calling attention to this. I think it’s pretty clear that we aren’t welcome, and it’s sheerly because our beliefs threaten the voters they want to court.

In the past I’ve given hundreds of dollars to the democrats. The Obama campaign and the DCCC keep sending me requests for money. I gave hundreds to John Kerry’s campaign and Howard Dean’s, and to the local and congressional committes too, and I’ve already contributed about a hundred or so to Obama.

No more. Every time the dem’s call to get more money from me, I’m going to make sure they know why they’re not getting one red cent this year. Every dollar I was going to send to Obama’s campaign is going to MSF, or Nothing but Nets, or Habitat, or the Sierra Club or the Valley Food Bank.

It is CLEAR, that once again I am not welcome. Can you IMAGINE if they had a “Families and Communities” rally and deliberately excluded gays? Especially once it became clear, as this is, that the rally only EXISTS in order to distance the party from the minority movement all the better to pander to those who hate us?

I’m fucking serious about this… If it’s close in California, I’ll hold my nose and vote for Obama, but that’s it. My money is where it’ll do good for human beings in need, and not to put people in power who seek to take away my voice.

I said GOOD DAY!!!!

My apologies for my oversight.