Liberal Tolerance, Respect Diversity, As Long As I Agree With It
Originally heard on the Michael Medved show. University of Washington Professor David Barash, in today's Seattle Times says we need more bigotry towards religious presidential candidates.
Indeed, here is a controversial suggestion: It is high time for the electorate to reject a devout Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, evangelical Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Shintoist, Wiccan or committed practitioner of any other faith or creed. Our problem isn't too much prejudice against devoutly religious presidential candidates (e.g., Romney), but not enough. Let's reject any religiously orthodox candidate for high office.
On March 27, 2007 at 7:26 am, Playin' Possum wrote:
Well, 9-11 was a faith-based iniative - ditto was the shrub’s evil war, as Barash reminds us…
This fellow is spot on…
The bottom line is the devout have their denialist heads in their asses. Christians and Moslems who really literally believe the crap their religions prate aren’t fit to hold office, vote, or even walk the streets without a keeper. But the reality is most Christians and Moslems don’t believe it - they just evade the conflicts and hide behind some warm and fuzzy emotionally-based "faith."
Which is a never-ending source of humor. Self described conservatives [NOT!] hiding behind feelings… What a hoot!
But the fact remains: This obvoius dichotomy between actual dogma and the churchgoing makes them all out to be hypocrites and therefore untrustworthy. I’ll take a pragmatist over a fool who thinks he talks to god any day.