Why don't people just make up their own religion?

[Anymouse]

Please do vote, and make it Obama. As the only superpower on the planet, the last thing we need ( as a civilisation) is the likes of Palin and Huckabee and their creationism beliefs, or mitt Romney and his crazy cult attempting to send us into another dark age.

Yours sincerely

A European.

Don't forget people like Michelle Bachmann, who had to spend a sizable portion of her campaign denying she had dabbled in witchcraft as a teen. Unfortunately here, though no one would ever admit it, people vote ofttimes solely based on their religious views, but justify it with canned sound-bite rhetoric from Fox News (that organization is owned by a foreigner, why do the wingnuts let a foreigner tell them what to think). There is an organization here trying to get a moratorium on building mosques. It has the support of a couple Congressmen (though not the Muslim Congressman who was just sworn in to office using the Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson).

You could have the best social, political, or economic plan ever devised in the history of politics, but if you announced you were an atheist, you would be ignored by the press and at the polls; if you said you were a Wiccan, your fight would be even harder than Bachmann's and she is a Tea-Party Republican.

CS Lewis wrote in his novella It Can't Happen Here, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the Flag and carrying the Cross." You only need to turn on the news to see that is happening now. And when these Christian wingnuts that believe in an Apocalypse in their own generation have the keys to this nation's nuclear arsenal, they will have the power to bring it about, as foretold in the Apocalypse (Revelation).

And so many people here wonder why so many in Southwest Asia despise the United States and think it restricts free religious practice; the best proof that this is not so would be to support our Constitution's First Amendment guarantees of religion. Yet these same wingnuts are working just as hard to tear it out of the Bill of Rights, not believing that when the First Amendment is in tatters that the vast new powerful laws could be used against their religious beliefs as well. Or anyone who does not toe the religious party line of the Tea Party wingnuts or other such radicals.

The best defense for religious freedom is the defense of all religious freedom, including the freedom to have no religion at all. They do not see that the Soviet Union's constitution also had guarantees of religious freedom. The Soviet Union did not have religious freedom because the Soviet Constitution prohibited it; they did not have it because they put soldiers in the churches.

I'm not voting; it's a lost cause, and I need the time to build a bunker or apply for political asylum in another country. I have no doubt where Wiccans will stand on the political enemies list when these folk get elected by well-meaning, but uninformed, sheep.