An atheist would never get on the ballot in the states.

I think it is the time to be a political force and I don't care if you are on my side or not... but SO MANY LIBERALS (which is me) JUST DON'T VOTE and it pisses me off. You feel you are fighting a losing battle... OK... fight it. Maybe we can surprise them!

Covered by The First Amendment Freedom of Religion, as well as Freedom from Religion... and our fore Fathers thought is most signifgant that is why it is with the Freedom of Speech...also it is the reason why the word Creator was used instead of God...

Im not convinced that separation of church and state is that big a factor for conservative atheists. If it is they've sure got a funny way of showing it. Nice idea but good luck breaking through the spell of white male oppression they're under. The emperor has fully convinced the pitchfork mob that the torch mob wants to take their pitchforks, and the castle is safe from accountability. Welfare is obviously wrong for women children and minorities but its just what the doctor ordered for corporate fat cats taking bonuses out of their taxpayer bailouts. Who needs education when we can raise another generation of coal miners? Im just sitting here with my umbrella waiting for all that trickle down to start up. Any day now, I can feel it.

That would be great but that may be bad has well. We are too scattered over here. If we lived in a firmly blue district yes vote for someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Vote has far left has possible. But for the rest of us in swing districts or red districts vote basic democrat like Nancy Pelosi or has some I have heard call them moderate republicans.

I understand that this is not a great idea but I don't see swing or red areas going deep blue right now.

That being said I think the issue is just getting kids (18+) to vote they have shown time and time again that they are lazy. But whine when a bad candidate gets in. Studies have shown them to be mostly liberal. The question is how?

I was thinking about something like this earlier today. One problem with focusing a political party on an issue as narrow as keeping church and state separate, is that there is more to life than just that issue. Also, being an atheist just means someone doesn't believe in a god and doesn't necessarily exclude other irrational beliefs.

As someone who values freedom and individual rights, my ideal political party would stand for a separation of church and state, protection of private property, the right to an abortion, the right for gay marriage, the legalization of all drugs, and other protections for individual rights. It would work for an elimination of all welfare, entitlement programs, and wealth redistribution schemes. It would work towards a complete separation of the economy and the state, as it should be separating church and state. It would support a strong military, to protect our rights from foreign invaders, a police force, to protect our rights from local criminals, and a judicial system, to protect us from fraud and contract violation. There wouldn't be much else for the government to do.

Who's with me? I would be surprised if anyone agreed with me on this...

it is time, yes, but it is the republicans who have cornered the evangelical market, while even religious democrats recognize that their religion is personal and absolutely must not be legislated. maybe the first thing we need to do... haha is everything, since we're being attacked on many fronts, but okay, ONE of the first things we need to do is get those laws changed in i forget how many states that forbid atheists to run for office. we need to keep the pressure up to get legal action against every attempt to shift public funds from, say, public schools to parochial ones. there is much more but most of it will just be a matter of maintaining a stalemate until we can flip everything blue, and that IS what it will take, because even republicans who are not themselves religious rely on the evangelicals to keep them in power, so they're never going to pass the legislation we need. it's against their self-interest.

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Replace the discussion of religion with corporatism.

I don't care what party it is they hit me with religious b*** I don't need it and I won't vote for them

Agreed!Is there a petition or something we can do additionally to force candidates to keep religious beliefs out of politics? I would think Separation of Church and State would have already covered that but it has not.