DTG said:
Sqrl said:
Rath said:
Sqrl said:
Rath said:
As an atheistic liberal the fact that he wrote that doesn't annoy me at all. He has full rights to be religious in his private life and to believe what he wants - as long as it does not cross into his political policies. |
Whats so wrong with that? Deeply religious people are almost always guided in their daily lives by their religious beliefs. Why shouldn't Obama draw strength and guidance from those beliefs?
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Because religion often leads to irrational and damaging acts - for example illegalizing stem cell research, prostitution and gay marriage.
@MrBubbles. Teehee.
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Honestly thats not even a serious position. Religion has definitely had it's role in the darker moments of man's history but just saying that all people who are religious are prone to be irrational isn't really a serious position at all and if I'm being honest borders on bigotry.
Every candidate is a person who like everyone else builds their political beliefs based on their life experience including their religious beliefs (or lack thereof). Its just something you have to factor in to your choice on election day. To be honest I wouldn't vote for someone who would ignore their own moral values and principles, thats not the kind of person I want as president.
PS - I think we actually agree on the issues you listed, I just don't think being religious forces you into a set view on those things.
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The problem with that is that someone who has achieved a higher plane of thinking by embracing and believing in moral relativism would know that such factors are irrelevant when choosing a president. There is no such thing as right or wrong but merely ends by which one achieves their own self interests. Intelligence should be the only qualifying factor of a leader that embraces such moral relativism and not an artificial belief system that simply divides a country by only catering to certain groups that share that belief system.
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Weren't you someone who just recently said the US was as evil and as "bad" as Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia... and now your saying there is no good or bad?
Interesting.
