Louie Gohmert: Atheists Should Encourage Worship To Protect The Country

Wondering exactly how this works? "So if you were completely areligious, completely atheistic, but you wanted to have a free country,,,it might be a good thing to encourage those who believe in God to keep doing so." I would love to stop paying attention to pols like Gohmert, but unfortunately these crazy fuckers keep getting elected to public office, then proceed to write policy. ignoring them is just not an option. I'm just not sure who to be more afraid of, people like Gohmert, or the folks who elect them.

If atheists want their country to be free and safe, they should encourage people to worship God, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert argued Thursday during a House floor speech.

Gohmert, who has a penchant for tweaking people who do not believe in God, was delivering a speech about the lack of attention given to Christians who are persecuted around the world.

Although he also declared that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, as an aside he argued that only nations that turned away from the Judeo-Christian god have ceased to exist.

"No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," Gohmert said.

"So if you were completely areligious, completely atheistic, but you wanted to have a free country, and you wanted to have it safe and protected, then it would sound like -- from historical purposes -- that it might be a good thing to encourage those who believe in God to keep doing so," Gohmert said. "Because when a nation's leaders honor that God, that nation is protected. It's only when it turns away that it falls."

Louie Gohmert: Atheists Should Encourage Worship To Protect The Country