Any good reasons to go?

No. I'm looking for a good reason. If I thought it might improve things, I would go.

How big would the rally need to be to make religious/politicians think? Since generally they don't think, that's why they're religious. And politicians generally appeal to people that don't think. I don't think they'd know what to make of it.

Exactly. Washington's entire existence totally depends on having an unthinking super-majority.

You may as well hold the rally at the Vatican or Mecca. I mean if the politicians think anything it's that if reason ever ruled, they'd have to get a real job and get real work done. Making false promises to the unwashed masses wouldn't cut it for pastors or politicians.

I would go if I thought it wasn't going to be distorted or ignored by the media.

How many minorities have advanced in acceptance in society by staying silent?  If anything, they are usually harmed by staying silent.

Actually a problem is the atheists with political agendas that believe they have figured it all out. They want power to shift from religion to government, to make government the new all powerful controller that enslaves. So for these people Washington is a good place to go. What about atheists that want to see power shift from religion and government to the individual?

Count me in.  This is a great idea.  You're right, ex-minister, this is like The Rally to Restore Sanity and The March to Keep Fear Alive.  It's an awesome idea.  EXC, it would be good to have a mix a political views there so the media doesn't make it look like a big left-wing atheist hatefest.  Conservatives should go too.

WHAT THE? You're an atheist too right? That is the same bigoted mentality religious people have of atheists. All people who have mustaches love Hitler. And mob rule by vote can have the same oppressive affect on minorities. A pure democracy where voters have absolute power is just a dictatorship by vote.

Really? Please. I value Jefferson. Asking for a wall of separation between Church and state IS NOT a call for the government to have absolute power.

You completely miss the point that even those on the left miss. GOVERNMENT cannot nor should be either or, it should not be all state, or all federal, nor should the voter have absolute power. Case by case through review and oversight taking dissent and the protection of into account.

Our government is set up to allow for dissent so that no one group, be it religious, or political, OR VOTER can create a situation in the future that their power cannot be challenged, THUS our system of checks and balances.

What we DO have is a class monopoly via money on our politics. The middle class and poor in this country are being clobbered by big money in our politics. HOWEVER, I do not want a pure democracy where the voters have absolute power. Iran has elections too, so any Jew or Christian or atheist living there, do not have a voice as minorities.

WE HAVE separation of powers and three branches of government that are independent AND accountable but separate FOR A REASON.

There is a reason for the Supremacy clause. There is a reason for advise and consent. There is a reason for our Supreme Court. There is a reason for Executive order. There is a reason for our electoral college.  There is a reason for all of that. TO PREVENT MONOPOLIES OF ANY KIND OF POWER.

I think the founders were WISE in understanding that nothing can be set up in black and white terms. "One man one vote" sounds nice until that majority wants to take away your rights as a minority. As an atheist you should value MORESO why our system is one of oversight preventing absolutes from taking place.

The problem isn't the way the system is set up. Just like a hammer is not responsible for the carpenter hitting his own thumb with it. The problem is abuse of power and the complacency of society in taking the system for granted.

I do not want any of the protections of dissent stripped from our Constitution. The attitude of the Constitution is that everyone is equal, everyone has a voice, but no one is given absolute power over anyone else.

Being an atheist in a Christian majority I would hope that you don't want states or voters having absolute power.

THAT girl in RI, the atheist, despite what the Christian majority might have wanted, was protected BY federal law. If you strip the federal government of the Supremacy clause, that atheist would be at the mercy of the Christian majority. FYI the judge who sided with her was a conservative Christian. If we go by what you want, and go by states rights, he would have had to say "sorry atheist" majority rules.

NOW I am sick of anyone on the left or the right pulling crap like this. THE ENTIRE concept of the Constitution was to PREVENT all attempts of monopolies from taking hold. That tool is only as good as the people who care to use it and is only as good as how it is used.

I think you are just so stuck on worship of money that it clouds your own perceptions.

I am an atheist too, do not speak for me, and assume because I disagree with you on economics that that means I want any type of absolute power. I am glad you had no hand in writing our constitution.

Your attitude scares the crap out of me, if we make it all states rights and no government ability to override a majority in a given state Texas could easily be ruled like Iran via mob rule by vote. We already have examples of their Jesus freaks trying to dumb down our public schools by controlling textbooks our entire country uses.

I am an atheist too, do not speak for me, and assume because I disagree with you on economics that that means I want any type of absolute power. I am glad you had no hand in writing our constitution.

My wife and I will be attending. Then we will be partying.