# This Atheist Gal in Love With John Kerry.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-atheist-gal-in-love-with-john-kerry/268493>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 10, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-atheist-gal-in-love-with-john-kerry/268493 "2004-10-10T18:24:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-atheist-gal-in-love-with-john-kerry/268493/41 "2004-10-12T02:09:58Z")

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> [@RaftPeople](#):
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> For those wondering about the Bush atheist comment, here is at least one link where it is described.
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> [http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/aa011.htm](http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/aa011.htm)
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> Not sure if it’s accurate, but it certainly matches other reports I remember.

But that link is about George **H.** W. Bush. Bush Sr. Does anybody know whether the George Bush who’s president **now** has ever denied that atheists are real Americans?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-atheist-gal-in-love-with-john-kerry/268493/42 "2004-10-12T02:38:14Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> Oh, we’ve been married for 35 years now, you and I, I’m sure we needn’t divorce over _this_.

At least not until the prosecutors put you in the slammer for boinking me since age 11. 😃 Not that I’m not gratedul. 😛

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-atheist-gal-in-love-with-john-kerry/268493/43 "2004-10-12T15:18:21Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> Me, too. The only president I recall mentioning atheists or agnostics in an inclusive way was Clinton–and that was after he’d already been elected, not as a _candidate_. And hell, I’m old enough to remember how upset Mother was when McKinley was shot . . .

Ah, then you’re old enough to remember President Eisenhower’s famous pronouncement on the subject: “Our government has no sense unless it is founded on a deeply religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.” 😛

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