Atheists are Taking Over!!! Move to Mississippi Now!!!

by Jim Washburn

I recently learned a staggering fact: In 42 of these 50 United States we stand wholly unprotected from the atheist threat. One of them could run for public office and we couldn't employ so much as a pitchfork in protest.

I live in California, where practically anyone can run for office--homosexuals, librarians, Catalina islanders-and there's not a thing we can do to stop them. If you live in such a state, press for a constitutional convention, where your laws can be amended to follow the examples set by these forward-looking states.

In Mississippi, they get right to the point in Article 14, Section 265:  "No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state."

In South Carolina and Tennessee they similarly do not mince words.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4: "No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution."

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2: "No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state."

Maryland, the state whose motto is "manly deeds, womanly words," puts it this way in Article 37: "That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God; nor shall the Legislature prescribe any other oath of office than the oath prescribed by this Constitution."

In Arkansas, they put a cherry on top: Article 19, Section 1: No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this state, nor be competent to testify as a witness in court.

They have to be crafty in Satan's Playground states such as Pennsylvania, where the law doesn't specifically exclude atheists so much as it very specifically doesn't include them. Article I, Section 4:  "No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth."

Texas law teases with seemingly permissive text, before closing with a welcome zinger. Article 1, Section 4: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."

In North Carolina, the state constitution is being put to the test by Cecil Botwell, an admitted atheist who flouted the constitution and won election to his local city council. Article 6, Section 8 http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/nc/STGOVT/article_vi.HTM of the constitution states: "The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of an Almighty God."

Perhaps you're wondering who runs a distant second to atheists in the threat they pose to state office: those found guilty of treason or other felonies. But atheists first, please.

You must believe in the invisible, folks. How could you make rational decisions otherwise? As Bob Dylan, who has served Jehovah, Jesus Christ and Albert Grossman, noted, you gotta serve somebody. Your Almighty God could be a cat god formed of dust bunnies held together by your own frequently applied saliva, and you would be fit for public office. Atheists, meanwhile, wouldn't know the first thing to do the next time God stops the sun in the sky or smites us some other mighty smite.

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