Atheophobia and the Jesse Ventura Flap

• Home to Positive Atheism
• Jesse Ventura Meets Atheophobia (October, 1999 column)
   
• American Atheists' Coverage
• Ventura Interview: Organized Religion is "Crutch For The Weak Minded"
• Ventura Taking More Heat Over Religious Remarks: Some Say He Should Resign
• Is He or Isn't He? As Pressure Builds, Ventura Seems to to Backtrack on Remarks about Religion, Belief
• Send a Message of Support to Governor Ventura
   
• Other Stories
• Reform Party Asks Ventura To Resign (Associated Press)
• Jesse Ventura and the Founding Fathers vs. Today's Politicians and Pundits
   
• On the Refusal to Endorse a Day of Prayer
• Ventura Under Fire for Not Endorsing National Day of Prayer (American Atheists)
• Thomas Jefferson's 'Religious Freedom' letter to Rev. Samuel Miller, January 23, 1808
   
• Cliff Walker's articles that discuss or develop the concept of atheophobia:
• New 'Battle' Against Atheism (October, 1996) Mormon Prophet Hinkley Addresses the American Legion
• How Do Others See Us? (December, 1996) Someone Asks if Organized Atheist Groups are Hate Groups
• Did Dennis Rodman Have a Point? (July, 1997) Aftermath of Rodman's (and Jackson's) Mormon Remarks
• Taking A Cheap Shot At Atheism (December, 1997) Schoolroom Killer Michael Carneal Called an Atheist
• A Good Hard Look (September, 1998) Press Coverage of an Anti-Promise Keepers Rally, or Lack Thereof
• Our Identity As Atheist Organizations (July, 1999) World Church of the Creator Called an Atheist Group
• Jesse Ventura Meets Atheophobia (October, 1999) Aftermath of Governor Ventura's Playboy Interview
   
• Other pieces that discuss the concept of atheophobia
• The Last Taboo: Why America Needs Atheism Wendy Kaminer

In commenting on the hysteria resulting from Jesse Ventura's Playboy interview, we have coined the term atheophobia:

atheophobia (n) :

• 1. fear of or intolerance toward atheists
• 2. fear of any criticism of religion or spirituality
• 3. fear of any move to bring religious neutrality to government or public life;
  fear of any move to neutralize the influence of religion (or one particular religion) upon government or public life
• 4. the fear that God may not exist, and the corresponding zeal to bring credibility to the notion that God does, indeed, exist

atheophobic (adj) :

• 1. exhibiting or practicing atheophobia