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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:01:14 GMT
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- dji@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (David J. Iannucci) writes:
- >Speaking of presidential quotations, I read one on the net several years
- >ago attributed to George Bush. It sounded kinda outlandish so I was
- >skeptical about it, but intrigued nonetheless. It was allegedly spoken
- >at a press conference, when the president was making some connection
- >between religion and patriotism (the good kind, not the kind being tossed
- >about recently on this group :^), and was asked if he didn't consider the
- >patriotism of atheists to be just as valid as that of religious people.
- >It went something like this:
- >
- > "No, I don't think atheists should be considered patriots, or
- > even citizens. This is one nation under God."
- >
- >Does anyone know if he really said this, or something similar?
-
- From an old copy of the Alt.atheist FAQ list:
-
- 23. "Did George Bush really say that atheists should not be considered
- citizens?"
-
- President Bush made the comments during a campaign stop on August 27,
- 1988 at O'Hare airport. He spoke with Robert Sherman, chief spokesman
- for American Atheists:
-
- RS: "Mr. President, what will you do to win the votes of Americans
- who are Atheists?"
-
- GB: "I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in
- God is pretty important to me."
-
- RS: "Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of
- Americans who are atheists?"
-
- GB: "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens,
- nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under
- God."
-
- UPI reported on May 8, 1989 that various atheist organizations were still
- angry over the remarks.
-
- The exchange appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on Monday Feb 27,
- 1989.
-
-
-
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