Agnostic President
Early this month Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile. Chile has been making progressive strides since the return of democracy in 1988.
… Who would have thought that a Catholic country that only legalized divorce a few years ago would elect an agnostic, single mother who promised equality - exactly half of her cabinet appointees are women …
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1744947,00.html
As secular as Western counties may seem in contrast to Islamic Theocracies, they are still very tied to faith based traditions. It is impossible to imagine an agnostic candidate get elected in the US.
I don’t know a lot about Michelle, but I hope that the tie she does not have to backward religious traditions allows her leadership to spring the country into a new era where the objective is progress and the betterment of society through reason and national cooperation. Michelle can set an example for other western nations.
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This country could use an athiest or agnostic president. Noam Chomsky is someone I had in mind. He is a Humanistic Jew and a reknown Linguistic and Physics professo at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of two books I hold in high regard : Middle East Illusions and The Fateful Triangle. Both books describe the stranglehold Israel and the Israel lobby have on the United States foreign policy in the Middle East.
If Noam Chomsky were president, he would slap Israel and the Israeli lobby around like a rag doll and show them some tough love. Our troops would be out of Iraq and for domestic policy we would have universal health care and guranteed housing for everyone. Sounds like a plan!
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