Title: Anyone watching the debate? You can post thoughts here Source:
Fox News URL Source:http://n/a Published:Aug 6, 2015 Author:n/a Post Date:2015-08-06 20:56:58 by Rufus T Firefly Keywords:None Views:25961 Comments:185
Ben Carson would be at or near the top of my list if he weren't a True Believer Fundie. I just can't vote to make someone president that believes in magic and miracles.
Ben Carson would be at or near the top of my list if he weren't a True Believer Fundie. I just can't vote to make someone president that believes in magic and miracles.
Cross them all off the list Pete. They are all Christians who believe in Christ and His miracles.
It should tell you something that the smartest man on stage is also a believer.
Why are you so convinced Ben Carson is wrong about his faith?
When did I ever say anyone was wrong to have faith?
I just happen to personally believe the whole "God" thing is nothing more than a scam,but I have never tried to claim people don't have a right to believe what they want to believe as long as they aren't harming anyone.
I also don't want a "True Believer" in anything but the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights sitting in the WH,and will NOT vote for one because a True Believer will put his religious beliefs ahead of everything else,and that is the kind of crap that leads to religious slavery and Holy Wars.
You go ahead and vote for anyone you want,but I will never vote for a funidie of any faith.
I also don't want a "True Believer" in anything but the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights sitting in the WH,and will NOT vote for one because a True Believer will put his religious beliefs ahead of everything else,and that is the kind of crap that leads to religious slavery and Holy Wars.
Several of our founding fathers who were devoted Christians and who later became President did not seem to have a problem with the US Constitution. So not seeing a strong case for your point.
The spirit of the American Revolution had its roots in the First Great Awakening. No holy wars ensued from that.
Several of our founding fathers who were devoted Christians and who later became President did not seem to have a problem with the US Constitution.
The fact that they helped write it and grew up in a period when claiming to be a True Believer was pretty much mandatory may have had something to do with that.
So not seeing a strong case for your point.
Of course not,although I suspect you would if the nominee were a Muslim.
Of course not,although I suspect you would if the nominee were a Muslim.
Or even a Quaker or a Mormon.
Well cross off Mormon. I stated on LP that Romney's religion would not influence my decision to vote or not vote for him.
Muslim? Your right I did not vote for the Muslim presidential candidate and settled for the Mormon in 2012. Plus unlike our American Christian tradition, Islam is inherently political from its inception.
Finally, we already had a Quaker President:
Nixon was a Quaker.
Nixon’s mother, Hannah, was a devout Quaker who instilled the faith in her husband and children. After the failure of his father’s lemon grove in Yorba Linda, California, Nixon moved with the family in 1922 to the nearby Quaker community of Whittier, which was named after one of America’s most eminent Quakers, the poet John Greenleaf Whittier. As a boy, Nixon went to Quaker meetings four times on Sundays and played the piano at church services. He enrolled at Whittier College, a Quaker institution, and attended mandatory chapel hours every day.
Plus unlike our American Christian tradition, Islam is inherently political from its inception.
I have to disagree with that one. Anyone even remotely familiar with the history of the Catholic Church knows that for hundreds of years it functioned as a arm of government everywhere it planted roots.
They even had their own courts and their own sentencing for anyone they accused of committing religious crimes.
In fact,not too long ago they were still playing these brutal games in Ireland.
I have to disagree with that one. Anyone even remotely familiar with the history of the Catholic Church knows that for hundreds of years it functioned as a arm of government everywhere it planted roots.
They even had their own courts and their own sentencing for anyone they accused of committing religious crimes.
In fact,not too long ago they were still playing these brutal games in Ireland.
But not in the USA. "Popery" was kept in check here in the USA.
But not in the USA. "Popery" was kept in check here in the USA.
It was a big issue in the early post-colonial period. Preachers like Increase Mather often inveighed against the papist hordes of Canada and the threat they posed.
America has been a paranoid country from the get-go.
America has been a paranoid country from the get-go.
With good reason. The people that founded this nation didn't come here because they had nothing better to do. They came her to get out of Europe and out from under the thumbs of the national churches.
