Atheist (Istvan) Demands The Right To Skip Airport Security Entirely

[RussBLib]

I don't post this to embarrass atheists. Zoltan Istvan is doing a good job of that, however.

We finally get a (relatively) high-profile (ok, low-profile) atheist running for President (Zoltan Istvan), and he demands that atheists be allowed to skip airport security, because "atheists aren't attracted to terrorism."

I had to laugh. We need some high-profile atheists running for public office, but...without making silly demands.

In an op-ed for the Huffington Post, transhumanist and “presidential candidate” Zoltan Istvan argues that atheists should have the right to skip airport security entirely, because atheists “aren’t attracted to terrorism.”

In the op-ed entitled “Is it Time for Fast Track Atheist Security Checks at Airports?,” Istvan says the idea occurred to him as he sat frustrated in an airport line. As he looked around, he realized that a turban-clad Sikh, a Muslim woman and a Catholic priest were all stuck in line with him.

“I couldn’t help but wonder if I really had to wait in hour-plus lines since no atheist — so far as I could discover — has ever been accused of bombing or highjacking [sic] a plane,” he writes. “Atheists aren’t attracted to terrorism since they’re too level-headed to believe they know all the answers to the universe.”

There's a little more here at the Daily Caller, but you don't have to go there.

You might want to go here for his entire op-ed. I snip only the last paragraph:

One of the main reasons I'm running for US President is to try to create policies for this country that simply make more sense--in this case: the unproven necessity for airport security checks for atheists. Since religion and terrorism are statistically connected, perhaps we should leave the two to themselves to work out their qualms. But for atheists like myself, to wait in dreaded airport security check lines for about five hours in the last month, is unacceptable. There must be better methods to move secular society forward, and it could start with a conversation about fast track atheist lines that force people to think about religion's true social and economic cost.

groan...and I'm thinking, hey Z, do you have a staff that maybe vets your speeches and writings? If not, get one! And try again.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. His intention was to draw attention.

See the last sentence in your excerpt:

"There must be better methods to move secular society forward, and it could start with a conversation about fast track atheist lines that force people to think about religion's true social and economic cost."

[AlbertCat]

2. First.....

..... you have to determine someone is really an atheist before they go thru the line.