Name: ペン・ジレット無神論者の2012年選挙ガイド (Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election)
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Everybody seems to think that Obama is in his heart an atheist and in his heart a skeptic.

The church he belonged to in Chicago is a whack-job church. It's about equal to Palin's

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church. Granted, he hasn't been as religious as... do we know off the top of our heads

the most religious president in history in terms of references... referencing to god...

references to god and in terms of appearing in churches? Who the most religious president

in history was? It's an interesting answer and I got this information from NPR, so it's

probably not slanted in the way you think. The most religious president in history in

terms of appearances in churches and mentions of the bible was Clinton.

Bill Clinton is the most religious president we've had. He beats George Bush hands down

and he beats Carter, who we know was a born-again Christian. He beats him hands down. So Obama

does that too. I mean at the 9/11 thing, maybe appropriately he read from the Bible. But

you have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ who prays

for decisions in the White House, which he said he was or you think he's a liar. And

I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama and their argument

is essentially, he's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to be elected.

I'm not happy with either one of those. I mean, Obama is wicked smart, he's a wicked

good talker, there is no doubt in my mind that his heart is in the right place, unfortunately

I think that about almost every president we've had, but I think he wants to do good.

I don't think there's any malicious quality to him at all. But I think in some sense,

he's a believer or he's a liar. So one to 10? I rate him pretty high on the skepticism,

maybe a six or a seven, but I rate him that way because somewhere in my heart I think

he might be lying about being religious and that's horrible. It's a horrible reason to

like somebody. I like him because he might be a liar. Horrible.

Penn Jillette: Michele Bachman's blasphemy is greater than anything I've ever accomplished.

I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and

it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes and

hurricanes were the way God was trying to get the attention of politicians. I cannot

imagine a serious religious person reading that quote or hearing that quote and saying,

"Yeah, right on." It is solipsistic, it is opportunistic, it is cynical. It is deep and

it is wrong and it is an insult to religious people everywhere.

For an atheist, it's a burlesque; it's a little bit of a joke you can dismiss her. But I can't

see it as an atheist. I see it through my father's eyes, you know, my father was a Christian

his whole life. And if he had heard Michelle Bachman say that, he would have looked away

from the TV. The idea that you would lightly state that people were suffering and dying

in order to, to prove that God was on the side of one politician is sickening. The only

reason that Bachman and Rick Perry are able to say this stuff is because of a magic word.

And this magic word is, "Christian." And if you look back in history, the word "Christian"

doesn't really appear in the way we use it today until the anti-abortion debate in the

'60's. When you had 1890, end of the 19th century, you're top three highest paid speakers;

the highest paid speakers were atheists speaking about atheism. It was Ingersoll, Robert Ingersoll,

number one, Mark Twain, number two, Huxley, number three. Ingersoll was the, the great

infidel, the great skeptic, the atheist, Mark Twain of course. And these were people speaking

on... he was not reading from Huck Finn, he was reading from Letters from Earth, he was

reading atheist stuff. And Huxley, of course, Darwin's pit bull, I guess bull dog at that

There was a real sense of atheism being an important point. They were invited to the

White House. And the reason was that Catholics were terrified of Baptists who were terrified

of Pentecostals who were terrified of Lutherans who were terrified of Evangelicals, the whole

list. There wasn't a feeling of Christian. The founding fathers were very afraid of Baptists

taking over from the Pentecostals. Everybody was afraid of the Catholics. So you had this

If we still had that, if we still were dividing people by sects like we should be... sects

like we should be, one of the largest groups in this country would be atheists. By the

USA Today poll, I think it was 22 percent, 20 percent. Even the lowest polls put it as

eight. Okay? The next highest would be Catholics. And they'd be knocking around 20, you know.

Then you've got all your divided up categories. And then abortion happens, legalized abortion,

and some very smart people, very forward thinking people decided we can never fight abortion

if it's the Catholics fighting the Protestants who are fighting the Baptists, fighting the

Pentecostals, fight the... we have to get them under one tent. And there's a great book

on this called The History of Free Thought, these are not my ideas. This is my understanding

They pulled this tent together and they kind of create the word, "Christian." And then

Carter with born-again Christian really helps with the word, "Christian." So what they've

really done is they've taken very different philosophies, I mean Catholicism and Protestantism

are very different philosophies, very different. You know, and they've pulled it together to

make this term, "Christian." Which are people that don't agree at all and they say I'm doing

So Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry just 40 years ago, really recently, would have been

terrified to speak about their God and their church because the second they said they were

Baptist, the second they said they were Pentecostal, the second they said they were Lutheran, all

the other people fall away. But now they've got this magic word, "Christian." And I am

helping make it worse. Because by using the word, "Atheist," I am separating that even

more from "Christian," I'm doing a broadening umbrella and I'm making theist, atheist. And

if you do theist, atheist, the theist's win completely.

You know, what I should be doing, if I were a political thinker, if I were someone who

was interested in movements, which I'm not, I'm against them. If I wasn't for individual

thinking, I would be one of those people who was saying, using a term like "free thinker,"

or "open-minded." And I would be gathering this umbrella that included people who self-identifies

agnostic, atheist, against organized religion. I would get the Wiccans in there. I would

get as many people as possible and I could probably pump that up to 25 percent. And then

I would be also saying, "Well, you know, the Muslims are very different from the Jews,

who are very different from the Catholics, who are very different from all of that."

But what's gonna happen, and because I'm not interested in tactical play, but rather than

telling the truth. We are going to get theist to atheist. But you can't imagine, we can't

imagine in 1965, a Baptist talking... Baptist politician talking about religion and where

they go to church if they have to use the word, "Baptist." It's using the word "Christian"

that allows this craziness to happen. Also because I am an optimist, to the point of

being incorrect, to the point of not being realistic, that's what flushes over me, that's

what I feel in my heart is optimism. I tend to go with something Christopher Hitchens

said, and I don't remember where he said it, it could have even been in personal conversation,

I don't know. But Hitchens said that what we're seeing with this incredible crazy religious

stuff is the death throws. I mean, since 9/11, free thinking atheism is growing so quickly

because of the internet and people who are seeing it first with those who are called,

and I realize this is a racist term, but it's the easiest one to use, so please forgive

me, Gypsies. We're seeing it with the Amish; we're seeing it with the Hasidics. All the

groups that try to stay as a subset of America and keep their own traditions are going away.

And Elvis chipped away at them and malls chipped away at them, but the internet is going to

It is just too hard to keep your children cloistered. They're going to hear Katy Perry.

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