Clinton or Trump? The choice is unclear for some atheists

[rug]

By Kimberly Winston | 18 hours ago

(RNS) Hemant Mehta doesn’t want a president who thinks evolution is a hoax.

“I don’t want a president who couldn’t even explain evolution. I don’t want a president who can’t tell fact from fiction and seems to believe anything someone tells him on Twitter,” Mehta says in a recent You Tube video that has garnered a lot of attention in atheist corners.

“If I wanted to hear people whose best evidence for their belief is, ‘Well, some people have said,’ then I’d go to church.”

So, Mehta, best known as “The Friendly Atheist” on his popular blog, will vote for Hillary Clinton — and he spends more than seven minutes trying to persuade other atheists to do the same because, he believes, she — a lifelong Methodist — is the only candidate who shares their core values of separation of church and state, LGBT equality and science-based education.

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/27/clinton-or-trump-the-choice-is-unclear-for-some-atheists/

http://theatheistconservative.com/2016/10/

https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/trump-in-exile2

[Puzzler]

1. I'm an atheist and DON'T endorse this viewpoint!!!

I'm not one of the "some". In case I didn't make it clear.

You know what? i like model trains. I have an HO scale layout. Yeah, I do.

But, I hear that some model train hobbyists have problems with both Clinton and Trump.

Sorry, no offense to the poster (I mean that). But my reaction is ONLY to the article.

I'm going to repeat that above sentence: my statement/anger is not aimed at the OP nor anyone on DU. I must be 100% clear about this

-Puzzler

[whatthehey]

3. Well sure

The word "some" does include "very very few" as part of its quantitative definition.

[tymorial]

4. I went to a Catholic high school and we were taught evolution

[stone space]

5. The Atheist Conservative isn't unclear. These "atheist" gunhumpers are threatening a Civil War.

Civil War? – Will Americans submit to all this without resistance?

http://theatheistconservative.com/2016/10/

Don't ask me how these so-called "atheist" gun worshipers reconcile civil war with atheism.