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Originally Posted by analog
Do you really think that the press wouldn't shine a giant light on that fact?  |
Of course they would... but only if they knew about it. Just like environmentally conscious woodsmen, atheists should "leave no trace".  I wish it were otherwise, but if I were an atheist interested in seeking public office in the future, I would scrupulously avoid mentioning my atheism or joining organizations for atheists. What would Uncle Tom think?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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