Back off on the Bible-thumping
It’s time to take back our country from the throes of religious zealots.
No, I’m not talking Mitt, Huck and Rudy. (sounds like a sit-com from the seventies). I’m talking Hil, Barry and Johny.
I don’t want to know who you worship, how you worship or whether you worship. Prayer is of no consequence when you are in the political spotlight. I can’t begin to tell you how offended I am by this. If this is the kind of thing that is going to get a vote, then that is a vote we do not want. The First Ammendment’s freedom of religion clause, so stated Thomas Jefferson, was designed to build “a wall of separation between Church and State”. The wall is crumbling under the auspices of a political system which chooses to ignore this amendment (along with many others).
We expect this kind of action from the right. President Bush talks to God all the time, and look where that has gotten us. And locally, the Town of Greece has it’s own dilemma.
Until this pandering to the Christians stops, this country will continue it’s downward spiral of religious hypocrisy as we move towards a theocratic government, which is just one step away from the monarchy (Bush being God’s chosen one, omniscient and omnipotent) that it is today.
From wiki:
Church attendance
Gallup International indicates that 41%[7] of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services, compared to 15% of French citizens, 10% of UK citizens,[8] and 25% of Israeli citizens.[citation needed]
However, these numbers are open to dispute. ReligiousTolerance.org states, “Church attendance data in the U.S. has been checked against actual values using two different techniques. The true figures show that only about 21% of Americans and 10% of Canadians actually go to church one or more times a week. Many Americans and Canadians tell pollsters that they have gone to church even though they have not. Whether this happens in other countries, with different cultures, is difficult to predict.”[9]
In, a 2006 online Harris Poll of 2,010 U.S. adults (18 and older) found that only 26% of those surveyed attended religious services “every week or more often,” 9% went “once or twice a month” 21% went “a few times a year,” 3% went “once a year,” 22% went “less than once a year,” and 18% never attend religious services. An identical survey by Harris in 2003 found that only 26% of those surveyed attended religious services “every week or more often,” 11% went “once or twice a month” 19% went “a few times a year,” 4% went “once a year,” 16% went “less than once a year,” and 25% never attend religious services.
Did anyone catch the interview of Mitt Romney on All Things Considered this evening? So much of the inteview focused on Romney’s religious beliefs that even Romney was getting squeamish. The interview consisted of Romney’s views on abortion (check out his explanation on NPR), teaching creationism in schools, his favorite verses in the bible, etc. In my opinion, Romney is somewhat of a moderate Republican who’s trying to pander to the Right Wing so it was interesting to hear his carefully crafted nonsensical answers.
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