Originally posted by TurtlestackSaw an interesting interview Wolf Blitzer did with an entertainer named Penn Jillette in Las Vegas. Here is an excerpt (my bold):
http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/petestark.php
Personally I think we need more nontheists in government but I have a sneaking suspicion some people may disagree with me.
BLITZER: You know, you're not only a Libertarian, but you're an atheist and you're proud of that.
JILLETTE: OK, everything, yes.
BLITZER: All right, let's talk a little bit about this poll -- I got it right here -- and get your sense. A Gallup poll, September 21st of last year. Are Americans ready for an atheist president? Fourteen percent say yes, 84 percent say no, 3 percent margin of error.
Well, not many people would like to see an atheist president.
JILLETTE: Isn't that odd we started out with a country kind of created by deists, who were really as close as you got to an atheist before Darwin? You know, believed that there was a non-personal god that intervened in no way.
JILLETTE: I mean, that's essentially Jefferson and Adams and Washington, and all those guys. And now we've come to the point where none of them would be considered to even be running.
