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Are We A Christian Nation Or Not? The Candidates Sound Off
Who are you going to vote for?
[John McCain] "The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation." "But I think the number one issue people should make [in the] selection of the President of the United States is, 'Will this person carry on in the Judeo Christian principled tradition that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?'"
[Barack Obama] "We are no longer a Christian nation. At least not "just". We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers."
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Um ... what about the Constitution?
Obviously McCain hasn't read it ... how can he be taken seriously as a presidential candidate? m-o-r-o-n.
We exist!
That cements my vote for Obama (not that I was going to vote for Mr. "100 years in Iraq" anyway). He acknowledged non-believers exist and are actually part of this nation! I can't even imagine a republican candidate saying anything positive about atheists; can you?
I've looked and looked
And I just can't find the words 'Jesus" or 'Christ' in the Constitution. I guess McCain has a different set of glasses than mine. And that whole 'in God we trust' thing? Not the work of the founding fathers. Unless you count those 'fathers' living in 1957.
http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.html
I had an opportunity recently to see (and hear) Obama speak in person. He is an orator with few current peers in politics. I think he is an intelligent fellow and I will be happy to listen to his state of the union speeches, whereas listening to jorj's make me want to jam twin ice picks into my ears. My only concern with his election is that no human being could live up to this image of him as savior which the media and his more ardent followers are creating. Still, I look forward to some sanity in the White House for a change.
I'm not a huge Obama fan . . .
. . . but he is so clearly a better candidate than McCain on most any criteria that concerns me, that it'll be very easy to vote for him this November. I don't like presidential candidates to claim to believe in their particular flavor of Sky Daddy, but just understanding that this is a *secular* nation is such incredible progress that I can live with the rest.
Jim Downey
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That's kind of how I feel...
My business partner, who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal(ish), challenged my a few months ago about why I would vote for Obama (as opposed to voting against McCain.) I looked a little deeper into Obama's policies and found that though I agree with a lot of his overall plans, some of the details worry me.
Still, I'll vote for Obama because, among other reasons, I too am fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but my socially liberal side influences my decisions more (whereas my partner's fiscally conservative side influences his more.)
I don't think religion is as important to Obama as he says publicly (at least, I hope it's not), and I'm not even sure that McCain isn't pandering to the Republicans with his god talk. Frankly, I've voting for Obama more because he's young, vibrant, and (yes, I admit it) Black than anything else. We've had enough old and/or white guys as president, I'm thinking.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
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