Politics and Religion...

Every time I read an excerpt from an interview where a candidate talks about how their faith drives them and blah, blah...it makes me want to tear my hair out. Why do we need religion in our politics? Why do most Americans need to have a strong spiritual candidate? Are they afraid that if an agnostic or atheist got elected president that they would immediately banish religion? No offense but if we had an atheist with an amazing economic plan running against John McCain, I'd vote for the atheist. Not because he's an atheist like me but because he had a plan to get us out of recession. Obama was right when he said these people cling to guns and religion. They come out of their holes every fours years and scream bloody murder over whatever the stupid "family values" issue is at the time then go away again. We have serious problems in this country.

This rant was brought on after reading an article from CNN's Political Ticker about how McCain might get baptized again. I wanted to share a few of the gimp's answers.

"Pastor Dan Yeary has a message I enjoy and appreciate," he said, adding that he and his family have "grown close to [Yeary] over the years" and that he tried to attend services at the church whenever he was home in Arizona.

"The message that Dan Yeary conveys of Christian love and redemption is one that I welcome," said McCain.

Are you listening Iraq?? John McCain believes in redemption and you have 100 years to receive it. Just accept Jesus Christ as your saviour it's that easy! Sigh.

On Wednesday, McCain cited the "the importance of Judeo-Christian values of 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'"

"There's enormous implications of that simple phrase," he added, calling it "one of the fundamental principles of leadership."

The old "do unto others..." line. Nice play sir! You have to realize that this only applies to McCain when discussing torture and permanent corporate tax cuts. How is anyone taking this asshole seriously?

Religion Gone Wild...

Here's where we are my friends. An Illinois Nazi, er Rep., chewed an atheist a new asshole for speaking his mind. She claimed his views were "dangerous for our children to even know that they exist". We have local, state and federal "representatives" that are completely out of their minds when it comes to separation of church and state. Our government, across the board, is littered with evangelical crazies. How did these nut bags get positions of public office? Are there that many end of times, fundamentalist fruit loops out there? I guess both answers are yes there are. This IS the war of civilizations that GWB has been raving about! It's them against us, people who believe a book as the reason for everything that has ever been as opposed to people who rely on facts and science. I realize this state representative is a small nut to crack but we need to crack them all. Like Bush tells us, these people need to be defeated. Home schooling your child to believe in the Bible and nothing else is child abuse. This is how our beloved country has been taken over by ideological lunatics. Teach them ridiculous bullshit and have them breed many times over and then you end up with a society of racist, ignorant and retarded people. Madness ensues. It's time to clean the toilet bowl and once again bask in the glory of our real country.

Here is why I'm so pissed off. These people have NO business in our government.


UPDATE: Tuesday: Rep. Monique Davis is going to be today's Worst Person in the World on Countdown for her tirade linked above. Good to see Keith reads the blogs as I have not heard or seen this story ANY where near the MSM other than Countdown. She beat out Bill Orally and Ann Coulter to win the "award". Well played madam.

Is Hillary on Steroids?

Until recently I really liked Hillary Clinton as a potential president. Unfortunately, I have lost all respect for her. Her campaign is not just malicious; it is extremely damaging to the Democratic Party as a whole. It is hard to believe that a Democratic Presidential front runner would sabotage her own party’s strides for her own power enrichment. If a meteor strikes Obama in the head, I do not know who I will vote for, but I do know that I will not vote for Hillary Clinton or John McCain. My list of cons for Hillary Clinton continues to grow.

Further, I am continually amazed of the people, that I run into every day, who don’t seem to keep up with current events in any way. There are still voters out there that are concerned that the “Muslim” Obama could be our next president. Even if he was a Muslim, so what? Remember, this is the country with religious freedom. By the way, if you are one of the people who didn’t know, Obama is a Christian. I am not a Christian myself, but I am not opposed to a Christian president. I still like the old concept of separation of church and state.

Got Faith?

This is a scary mash up of how interwoven politics and religion have really become. I guess the whole separation of church and state was just something to consider, not a hard line rule. Thoughts?