posted on November 10, 2004 08:38:11 PM
The separation of church and state has failed. The born-again Christians have released the Bush genie from the bottle. He sees electing him as accepting his way without exception, giving him a godlike power. He shows this by his statements that he really means his way or the highway. He won the election with fear and spin, following the path of religions, using fear and division and the promise of something better. Religion is the original politics and the basic reason for most of the world's problems.
posted on November 10, 2004 09:01:43 PMThe separation of church and state has failed
No it hasn't yeager. It's just been dealt a temporary blow. Those of us who support the separation of religion and government will keep doing what we've always done. Quit fretting.
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Dick Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11..."
posted on November 11, 2004 10:23:28 AMdealt a temporary blow
There you go bringing up Willie & Monica again. Americans again prove Pres Bush is the best man for the job
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on November 11, 2004 11:17:34 AM
I have read these two articles from MSNBC one from today, the other from the 8th that speaks very well imo, to how the anti-religious people just don't 'get' it.
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Thomas Friedman, long one of my favorite columnists on all matters foreign, concluded that Mr. Bush was elected by Christians who are hell bent on legislating social issues and "extending the boundaries of religion so hard that it felt as if we were rewriting the Constitution and not electing a president."
Rewriting the constitution? Just because George Bush carried Ohio by 100,000 votes? Talk about one of our most gifted writers losing all perspective.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne swung wildly at windmills blasting away at the "exploitation of strong religious feelings" and the "radical efforts to destroy the achievements of progressive government."
George Bush and Christians radicals want to destroy American government? Oh really? I guess I missed the debate when the W. laid out that plan of attack.
Michael Moore blasted the President, of course, for pandering to the Christian conservatives, while Maureen Dowd accused Mr. Bush of taking America into "another dark age, where we replace science with religion and facts with faith."
The Pulitzer Prize winner concluded that "The new evangelicals challenge science because they have been stirred up to object to social engineering on behalf of society's most vulnerable: the poor, the sick, the sexually different."
Dowd also accused the President of running a "jihad along the fault lines of fear, ignorance and religious rule."
Never in my life as a practicing attorney, a newspaper publisher, a Congressman or a news host have I witnessed America's cultural elite become so unglued over any historical event. And most distressing is the fact that these opinion leaders are singling out a group of Americans for no other reason than the God they worship.
To paint all Republican Christians as angry, hate-filled, science-loathing, right-wing beasts only helps explain why the Mainstream Media continues to lose market share and why those Democrats who take solace in their bigoted anti-Christian screeds remain out of power for another four years.
It leads me to wonder, can we only be good Americans if we turn our backs on our faith, or become champions of abortion on demand, stem cell research without reservation, and marriage defined in a way that conflicts with the spiritual beliefs of a majority of Americans?
Isn't it interesting that when pluralism and diversity of thought become politically inconvenient, it is the cultural and media elites who become the most close-minded and bigoted?
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Both articles offer more along this same line of questioning the hatred and intolerance the democratic party shows towards Christians.
