(June 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm)Chuck Wrote:(June 3, 2011 at 3:13 am)tackattack Wrote: I haven't even read the OP, but I think almost all of religion in establishing a political platform is almost entirely for posturing and plays little to no part in their actual administration.
Bullshit. Even if the politician is cunning enough to see religion as the tool to ingratiate, fool and corral the more gullible of the masses, once he adopts religion as significant parts of his platform, his career interest would henceforth be served by ostentatiously inconveniencing and thwarting the rational and enlightened, in order to curry favor with the pious and the idiots.
Religion is a poison that is toxic when taken in any form.
Very valid point. I see how that could lock them into a course of action. Why are almost all politician connotatively understood to be crooks not saints then?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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