{"id":1918,"date":"2016-02-05T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2016-02-05T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:27:05","slug":"the-god-question-sanders-vs-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2016\/02\/05\/the-god-question-sanders-vs-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"The God Question: Sanders vs. Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bible-american-flag1\"<\/a>While I have Facebook friends who are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Satanists, Pagans, and everything in between, the fact is that I am an atheist activist and blogger. That being said, most of my Facebook friends are atheists or identify with some label that is encompassed within the greater community of reason. Interestingly enough when I look at my Facebook feed, I see that the vast majority of my friends tend to support Bernie Sander over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primary for President of the United States.<\/p>\n

What does that mean? It actually doesn\u2019t mean much of anything at all. It\u2019s anecdotal. It simply means that I am friends with a lot of progressive Democrats who happen to support Sanders over Clinton for whatever reason. Not all of them are even atheists. But I do think in this case, my friend list might just serve as a small microcosm of the greater atheist community. I do think that the vast majority of atheists do support Sanders over Clinton and for good reason.<\/p>\n

Sanders is for all practical purposes, an atheist. He describes himself as a \u201cnot particularly religious\u201d Jew and when asked point blank about whether or not he believes in a God, he told Jimmy Kimmel the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am who I am, and what I believe in and what my spirituality is about, is that we’re all in this together. That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n