Rick Perry promises to "end Obama's war on religion"

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I still can't believe that anyone could consider voting for him.
Hell, I had a friend who, when he [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]criticized[/FONT] Obama, I asked him who he was going to vote for, he said Michele Bachman. Known him for over thirty years, called him a fucking moron. There are so many lemmings out there it is scary
 
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Considering that you get better comments off porn site videos, I have very little faith that the IQ of the average Youtube commenter is very high.

Judging from your few posts it appears your two-digit IQ shouldn't be throwing stones . . . or even picking them up.
 

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Hell, I had a friend who, when he [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]criticized[/FONT] Obama, I asked him who he was going to vote for, he said Michele Bachman. Known him for over thirty years, called him a fucking moron. There are so many lemmings out there it is scary

Lots on the other side too.
 

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What is most disturbing to me about him, and he seemed to get a total pass from the media for it, was when Rick Perry promoted Texas' secession from the Union when things didn't go the Republican's way. I guess it's cool to be a traitor as long as you're born again. It's amazing what the conservative base will overlook! Obviously, he has no loyalty to the Constitution like he does to Jesus.

I believe that the correct word is sedition.



I miss Ann Richards.

Don't we all, darling? Add Molly Ivins to the pile, too :frown1:
 

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Stupidity breads stupidity, hope to god (pardon the pun) this man doesn't have an impact on today's youth.. otherwise America will be growing a generation of moronic bible thumping Palin like children.

And this is coming from a Chrsitian-Canadian.
I don't know what happened to Texas the last few years. People are moving here in droves and it's believed most are Progressive Democrats. It's called a swing state now;not fully red anymore.......:beerchug:
 

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I don't know what happened to Texas the last few years. People are moving here in droves and it's believed most are Progressive Democrats. It's called a swing state now;not fully red anymore.......:beerchug:

I'll believe the "swing state" status during the elections; however, I agree on the premise that economic transplants from CA (D) and the increasingly large, legal voting population of Latinos rejects the traditional Good Ol' Boys Network.

No one ever knows til election night: just remember that FL and NC both voted Obama (along with IN!) in 2008. "Swing States" are getting harder and harder to pin down and identify. The truly odd news about 2012 is that the rust-belt, with their dire economies and limited opportunities seem to be solid Obama Country, even in the midst of the Second Depression.

I'd be tempted to blame it on the hyper-devout Evangelicals being a tad so intrusive into peoples' lives that it turns them totally off, but I think I'm overlaying my own preconceptions over the majority Live-&-Let-Live crowd: we won't know until Nov, 2012, surely? Personally I'd love to think that the current TP/GOP's shrill overtures toward theocracy have inflicted their own damage :cool:

This electorate will hold their noses while casting their votes: that's certain.
 
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I don't understand the mixture of politics and religion in the US. I don't know the beliefs of any Canadian politician and I don't care.
It's interesting how it's come to be that way. The fact that our PM is a member of the CofE, or that his deputy is atheist, is largely irrelevant and most wouldn't know. They don't really make a big deal out of it. I believe Blair even waited until he stepped down before converting to Catholicism officially because of the way that might have been viewed by the public (not 100% sure on that though). How did the US end up so different in the space of a few centuries?
 

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It's interesting how it's come to be that way. The fact that our PM is a member of the CofE, or that his deputy is atheist, is largely irrelevant and most wouldn't know. They don't really make a big deal out of it. I believe Blair even waited until he stepped down before converting to Catholicism officially because of the way that might have been viewed by the public (not 100% sure on that though). How did the US end up so different in the space of a few centuries?
Well, one cause is the fact that our Constitution forbids a federal establishment of religion. If, per impossibile, there could have been such a thing as a national church in the US, then most likely the same slackness and indifference toward religious belief and observance that prevails in Europe today would prevail here. But to entertain such fantasies is to ignore history. The religious diversity of the colonies was such that no United States of America could have come into existence with a state religion anyway. Even where there were state establishments of religion (these were allowed by the Constitution until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868), they tended to break down. One might expect that the prevalence of dissension among sects and churches would make people reflect on the utter groundlessness of religious opinion, but instead it seems only to have encouraged greater religious commitment.
 

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One might expect that the prevalence of dissension among sects and churches would make people reflect on the utter groundlessness of religious opinion, but instead it seems only to have encouraged greater religious commitment.
I would have expected exactly that. People are so unpredictable, and confusing...
 

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When it comes to attitudes toward religion in the US, one should also bear in mind the differences between more and less densely populated areas, and between what H. L Mencken scornfully dubbed the "Bible Belt," roughly coextensive with the South, and the rest of the country. There has been what the title of a book by Michael Lind--seven years old and now out of print, but still topical--terms a Southern takeover of US politics.