Pete Stark is the only member of Congress without a mental disorder
If I said I truly believed that Zeus would take care of all my needs once I died and slay all my enemies, you’d think I was a nutjob.
But blather on and on about a hippie named Jesus and his plagiarized history, and for some odd reason, you’re not considered a mental case.
So, surrounded by a sea of mental cases that go around chasing faeries, we send kudos to Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). Stark, a member of Congress since 1973, is the first open nontheist in the history of the Congress, according to Secular.org.
In a world where the President of the strongest nation believes that invisible deities guide his hand and gladly accept him slaughtering hundreds of thousands, it’s refreshing to know that at least one Congressman believes in reality.
Because let’s face it, there are plenty of others in Washington that don’t believe, but are forced to because there’s a lot of faerie worshipers out there voting. So at very least, it’s nice knowing that at least one of the people in the U.S. government isn’t spending his off time praising imaginary things and basing his opinions on nonsense.
–WKW
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Old Congressman Pete Stark…of 35 years plus in Congress is not only an atheist, but he is just an ‘old fart’ so to speak who wants to piss off the world. He rants and raves at his constituents and is not a nice guy…he’s not a “poster child” that any organization would want to represent them…atheists or otherwise. Check out where he denigrated a constituent who just returned from an overseas deployment to Kosovo…the soldier wrote his congressman (Pete Stark) and got this angry insulting voicemail back. (See the link to the Fox News video below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djeGqNVXjZE
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
[…] So, Pete Stark, a man who has the guts to admit he doesn’t believe in a god, didn’t have the guts to stand by his statements against an imperialistic President who has sent Americans to their death in what basically amounts to imperialistic oil deal. […]