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What will happen to the United States -- One Nation Under God -- if we ever elected an atheist president -- or would we be rendered asunder before that could ever happen?  Is it possible for an atheist to win the highest office in the land where prayer and freedom of religion reign?

Are you frightened by the rise of active Atheism among us?  As one of the rising -- and yet delighted by discussing any and all religious beliefs -- I am thrilled to see in America that it becoming easier, and more accepted, to stand up and say: "I do not believe as you; but that does not mean I am not as moral as you."  

The Greeks made a bold move and removed the question of morality from the secular world and replaced that mandate with the universal ideal of ethical behavior governed by laws.  We became a people of rules and laws and ethics in the state -- making us completely unique in the world -- because no other competing species for our time and space is able to cognitively think, make value judgments and create a standard, equitable, criteria for living as citizens that requires we help each other instead of trying to kill each other.  We are ruled by our minds and not our emotional instincts.  We have patterns of written expectation we agree to adhere to in order to get along with each other -- and the role of the historic Church in antiquity was to mediate the meticulous, and sometimes tenuous, dyad between a people and their state -- and to help regulate an effervescent values system and to negotiate a context for living a moral life in a shapeshifting world.

This article is a little tip for Jewish men (that's what she said!) who are looking for a wife in New York City. 

Over the past four years or so that I have been publishing this Urban Semiotic blog, I am always surprised to see unpublished comments from conservative religious readers who decide their best defense in the name of Jesus Christ is to insult me.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has a fascinating study that compares belief in evolution against certain religious strata.

It was incredibly refreshing yesterday -- during the national prayer breakfast -- when President Obama made room for the Godless in the manic realm of a national, religious, fervor and reinforced the necessary separation of church and state.