I’ve been so busy at work this week, I haven’t had much time to even look at a blog. But I did have the opportunity to read this article and would like to share it. Pete Stark is the first U.S. Congressman to openly hold nontheist/atheist views. It’s a start!
There is only one member of Congress who is on record as not holding a god-belief.
However:
Surveys vary in the percentage of atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheists in the U.S, with about 10% (30 million people) a fair middle point. “If the number of nontheists in Congress reflected the percentage of nontheists in the population,” Lori Lipman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition, observes, “there would be 53-54 nontheistic Congress members instead of one.”
