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For these reasons, we should not be compelled to vote for someone because he or she can recite passages from the Bible. In fact, we should be suspicious of those who do so in a political context. It's pandering, and it's often hypocritical.

We need to vote for candidates who will take their instructions not from some deity, but rather from the people.

We need to vote for candidates who will take their instructions not from some holy book, but rather from the Constitution.

Otherwise, we're no longer the America that our founders had envisioned, and we're no better than the theocratic dictatorships that we criticize.


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excellent by Joan Brunwasser on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 7:58:36 AM
I say to you... by Daniel Geery on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:07:30 AM
Dubya not only invokes his god? by john riggs on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:41:10 AM
The Right to Kill by Steve Consilvio on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:17:48 PM
You are exactly right. by Frank Staheli on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM
It would be irrelevant EXCEPT that... by Daniel Geery on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 1:00:32 PM
What's new by Mad Jayhawk on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:39:38 PM
Somemore History by iman on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 1:54:49 PM
Deists by Rob Kall on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 6:09:20 PM
my Karma all 8cyls can run over your dogma by Andris on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:27:02 PM
Re: "Is God Running for President?" by Munich on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:46:38 PM
separation clause? by tim bristol on Monday, Oct 29, 2007 at 8:58:04 AM
Politics and Religion are Married by Mark Angelo Cummings on Monday, Oct 29, 2007 at 2:52:20 PM
Is god running for president by vincent passiatore on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007 at 9:14:07 PM

 
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