{"id":1858,"date":"2012-09-16T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/09\/the-god-card.html"},"modified":"2012-09-16T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T21:33:00","slug":"the-god-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/09\/the-god-card.html","title":{"rendered":"The God Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Even as we watch the violent collision of politics and religion at American embassies around the world, here at home Presidential politics took a decidedly religious turn. Mitt Romney, trailing in several decisive purple states, has resorted to the \u201cGod Card.\u201d Capitalizing on the omission (and later reinsertion) of God into the Democratic Party platform, Romney has recently added God into his stump speech, \u201cI will not take God out of my heart, I will not take God out of the public square, and I will not take it out of the platform of my party.\u201d [Insert Amen! here].<\/p>\n

Here in Virginia, Romney raised the specter of a \u201cgodless\u201d Obama removing \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d from the currency and from the Pledge of Allegiance. Standing before the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach amid throngs of veterans and their families (mostly all white and very conservative), Romney remarked, \u201cOur pledge says \u2018under God. I will not take God out of the name of our platform. I will not take God off our coins. And I will not take God out of my heart.\u201d Never you mind that Obama wears his religion like a ribbon or that the President never suggested removing \u201cGod\u201d from the Pledge or off of US currency, God is good politics.
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Even as we watch the violent collision of politics and religion at American embassies around the world, here at home Presidential politics took a decidedly religious turn. 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