On Minority Rights and on Beliefs | 546 comments (546 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Atheist privilege (none / 1)

You know, when you in Germany have an atheist Chancellor or a President who's not a Lutheran Pastor you can stop claiming that the German Lutheran Church is some little ghetto that does not enjoy "privilege".

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 5th, 2014 at 09:02:42 AM EST
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Re: Atheist privilege (none / 0)

So religions don't enjoy special privilege in Israel (Ben-Gurion, Meir, Rabin were all atheists) or India (Nehru)? Italy even has an atheist President right now.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Feb 5th, 2014 at 09:07:17 AM EST
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Re: Atheist privilege (none / 0)

I'm just taking on Katrin's victim complex right now.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 5th, 2014 at 09:12:59 AM EST
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