Sqrl said:
Honestly, as someone who is agnostic if God appeared before me and was able to convince me through sufficient demonstration that they were in fact god...well I would do what he/she/it asked of me too. That doesn't make me a religious fanatic, in fact it sounds pretty damn reasonable to me.
Of course what you're really saying is that you don't believe god exists and thus this would of course have to be some sort of acute hallucinatory episode. In which case I would ask why in the hell you're basing your choice of leader on something so extremely unlikely to occur in a healthy individual. But more to the point I know of no data which suggests religious peoples are more disposed to believe in their hallucinations than anyone else, which of course includes you, me, and Obama. Do you know of such a study?
For that reason I would say that I think your classification of Obama as someone who would not do what was asked is rather suspect, on what do you base this assumption?
At this point we are already off on a fairly bizzare disqualification measure that is based on your assumption about the individual and not based on any discernable facts that we can all agree upon readily.
Forgive me if I'm not exactly inspired by your selection process whereby you decide how someone would react to an extremely unlikely event based on little more than your gut instinct and then pick the one you like best based on the reaction you selected for them.
Of course you are entitled to this method if you like, but I'm finding it hard to be persuaded by it.
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