you want to see something dreadfully wrong with the american political system? just look at this! the christians are worried that miers won't rule like a christian on the bench! are they fucking off their damned rockers?!?!? it's not a legislative body, it's the supreme court! they don't make decisions based on their personal faith, they make them based on the law and how it should be interpreted!!!!!!!!!
fucking idiots!
there is a time and place for faith in the public sector. i do appreciate that people believe what they do, it leads to charity and good works. however, it is the very first thing that the bill of rights states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Congress can't make the law, it's unconstitutional and thus the court must strike any such law down. the reason, you ask? why because the men who wrote our Constitution saw the damage that the Anglican church was doing by being a politically active body. same way the catholic church behaved in the dark ages. they kept humanity back for a hundred years in suffering and darkness. think about it. the greatest scientists of the renaissance were condemned as heretics and were persectuted against by the catholic church. and why? because they didn't fall in line.
this country does not need a theocracy. would any of you like the idea of someone who didn't have your ideas of faith telling you how and what to believe? then don't do it to the rest of us.
empathy is a thing that makes this country work and now half of us seem to have put that down for the judgmental bent we're seeing now.
just because i can't justify believing in a God that i've never seen, felt or proved logically doesn't mean that i don't think about it. i've thought long and hard about it. i was raised christian and have since found that "christian" behavior in today's society is completely the opposite of the loving, tolerant and gentle values they espouse in church. you can't call yourself a christian for going to church every sunday and putting on the face of being this nice, loving, god-fearing person and then go out and tell people that they're going to hell because they don't agree with your exact views. that's a great example of twisting the faith. so stop it!