Tuesday 23 October 2018

Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism?

Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism?

Daniel Seeger was twenty-one when he wrote to his local draft board to say, “I have concluded that war, from the practical standpoint, is futile and self-defeating, and from the more important moral standpoint, it is unethical.” Some time later, he received the United States Selective Service System’s Form 150, asking him to detail his objections to military service. It took him a few days to reply, because he had no answer for the form’s first question: “Do you believe in a Supreme Being?”
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/why-are-americans-still-uncomfortable-with-atheism?source=Snapzu

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