Want to Win An Election? Turn to God

I am also not a Witch.

I actually didn’t like your article Hemant. Don’t get me wrong, I think you made some great points. But you wasted an opportunity to talk about atheists running for office (like Wynne LeGrow) and you reinforced the idea that atheists can’t win. This will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I also wrote a response to the “On Faith” topic. Here is what I had to say:

On Faith: Electing a godless plan

I try to respond to all of the Washington Post’s “On Faith” topics.
-Staks

Here in the UK, religion in politics is definitely a no no, apart from Northern Ireland which will always remain sectarian.

We vote on the candidate’s policies, doesn’t matter if he or she is Christian, Jewish, Muslim or atheist, or a devil worshipper for that matter. That is their business and should not be a part of their policies.

To be honest, we vote against, rather than for, so the electorate got tired of 13 years of New Labour. Now we have a “coalition” government of Consevatives and Liberal Democrats, the same Liberal Democrats who opposed the Conservatives while campaigning!!

David Cameron couldn’t get a majority over all the other parties so he had to go cap in hand to the LibDems in order to form a government, imagine an alliance between Republicans and Democrats and there you have it!!

I and many others call them the ConDems and boy, have we been condemned!!! We need Barack Obama and you need David Cameron!!!!

By the way, we ‘re only democratic every four or five years!! Five years is the maximum and Cameron and his cronies have made sure of that by bringing in a rule that 50% of the oppostion can call for a vote of no confidence, trouble is the opposition can only muster less than 50% Ah, isn’t democracy wonderful!!

Steve’s right, we live in a ConDem nation.

That said, the leader of the opposition, Ed Milliband and Nick Clegg, Deputy PM and leader of the Lib Dems are atheists. Which is encouraging!

“…flat out pro-Theocracy op-eds. not to mention the clear and obvious bias for all things republican.”

…in the Washington Post?

That’s really out there.

(I presume “republican” was meant to be “Republican”. The upper case makes a big difference. After all, we do have a republic here.)

I wonder how many witches she alienated? No Witch vote for you, Christine O’Donnell.

I have never and will never vote for ANYONE who puts their religious attitudes over the issues.

Just like with sex, those who talk about it the most are the ones doing it the least.

Liked it except for one thing: good luck having a candidate running who isn’t — at minimum — ending their speech with god bless america which makes it rather difficult to vote those exploiting religion out of office. We can only vote for candidates on the roster or vote not at all. This is why I often vote third party — more often than not. So I actually have something to vote for rather than against.

People are ignorant. Scott Murphy’s running for re-election. Unfortunately, I’m not in his district. I say unfortunately because I didn’t want to see him elected the first time. However, I was impressed that he actually agonized over which way to vote for health care reform. Up until the night before he was openly weighing the pros and cons (and leaving god out of it) and asking his constituents for their feedback. This impressed me. Would that more representatives agonized over decisions and what would be right or not before casting a vote. Unfortunately, this is being used against him big time in the campaign ads on TV. Frankly, I wish I was in his district and could vote for him because I prefer a candidate that really thinks about legislation before voting for or against it. But people here are acting like he did something utterly horrible by not taking an immediate stance without thought pro or con.

stogoe, true but it never hurts to remind people that this is a democratic republic and because it is when talking about the two parties that have any chance in hell of holding power, we should capitalize Republican and Democrat.

stogoe,

Be that as it may, republican and Republican have two different meanings.

Reason and rationality are rightly lauded in these parts, and both require basic distinctions.

Such as the distincitions between the adjective refering to a form of governement or a person in favor of that form (lower case “r” republican), and the proper noun referring to a specific political party in the USA also known as the GOP (upper case “R” Republican).

I suspect you knew this already, but just couldn’t bear to suppress your compulsion to spew some bile.