It's a sad day in America when you have to go to tiny dog for the issues that the Democratic National Convention won't even touch with an Olympic long jump pole, but here we are people, to talk about the great subject of atheism.

I shall now take to the podium for my convention speech as your official American delegate to the atheist collective:

My fellow atheist Americans, it is time for you to stand proud across our great nation, and boldly defend your insistence upon empirical evidence to inform your systems of belief, and to proclaim your comfort with ambiguity about the truly unknowable details of the origin of life on earth.

It is time for you to register your offense when religion is used as a litmus test for politicians (stewards of decidedly secular human affairs). It is time to decry the use of religion as a crowbar to pry and breach public institutions created to serve people of all faiths, and of none.

We know, all of us, that such actions are nothing more than the manifestation of that familiar bailiwick known as human weakness, masquerading itself shamelessly as the Higher Good. This is a thing for which both atheists and truly holy persons should be censorious, and religions hypocrites ashamed.

As we in the collective are aware that no candidate of either party would ever dare admit to atheism in this hypocritical and sanctimonious nation, we are not in fact sure why we are at the Democratic National Convention, speaking with you today.

We nonetheless take comfort in the fact that we are not the only appreciable segment of the populace who endure a general exclusion from the upper echelons of elected politics by virtue of our race or creed, and are proud to remain in the rather populous company of the politically disenfranchised.

Thank you and god bless America!

--tiny dog

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