Monsieur RedPhoenixxx wrote:
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I don't care if someone believes that the world was created by a giant laser-beam-eyed snail wiggling around leaving a slime trail.
Ok, I got it. You'd happilly elect someone with those kinds of belief, and it's great for you that you can be so open minded about it. It's almost enough to make you a liberal, but let's not push it.
Your fist mistake was assuming that being Liberal was in any way related to being open minded. Common mistake though.
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And we can also pretend that religion plays absolutely no part in policy, that a president's personal beliefs won't in anyway affect his judgment, or his decision-making process, or even just the way he thinks. And doing so would be about as productive as the discussion we're having now, funnily enough.
Or we can assume that they automatically do, and that a person of faith has absolutely no ability to separate what he believes for himself and what he does professionally. So no firefighter can be religious cause he's going to believe that if God sent that fire, it's not his right to stop it, right? And that policeman? He can't be religious either because he might just decide to follow the laws of his religion instead of those of the city he works for. And that airline pilot? Can't be religious either, because if God had meant for man to fly, he'd have made them with wings, right?
Goes both ways. See. I'd rather look at a prospective candidates record rather then assuming that he's going to do things I don't agree with because he happens to hold religious views that I don't agree with.
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But I think he's either a hypocrite for saying he doesn't believe in evolution, or is otherwise clearly unfit to be President.
Lol. You realize you've just now proven my point?
You still going to argue that you don't require a repudiation of faith as a requirement for office?
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It's not some obscure and controversial piece of abstract science we're talking about. If you really think the Earth is 6000 years old,
He didn't say that. You made it up. Strawman.
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that men walked with dinosaurs,
He didn't say that either. Another strawman.
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and that every piece of scientific evidence that goes against it is inherently flawed,
He didn't say this either. Yet another strawman.
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then you have an extremely skewed and purposefully ignorant view of the world.
Lol. Methinks you're the one with the skewed perspective. You so obviously dislike anyone with strong religious beliefs, so much so that you'll invent reasons why they're unfit to hold public office.
Silly me. I actually look at the candidate and his history in public office. You seem to broadly paint all religious people with the same brush (and assume the worst). Funny thing is that I agree with you. I don't think he'd make a good president. But not because of his religious beliefs. I just happen to not agree with many of his political positions and ideas.
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Which, in my opinion, could lead to bad policies.
Yeah. Could. But I've seen far more bad policies come out of purely secular motives then the other way around. Honestly, for every single time some local school board does something that steps across the boundaries between state and religion, there are a hundred other things that are done that are far worse with far broader implications and that have nothing to do with faith based anything.
I'm not going to blind myself to the real issues because I've been convinced that the religion boogeyman is going to get me if I don't pay enough attention. I'm far more worried about the freedoms I lose each year to the social liberalist boogeyman, but thank you for being so concerned.