(October 16, 2012 at 3:22 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: and Reagan was the saint.
This is the part that truly is faith based, especially by modern Republicans.
Reagan raised taxes 11 times, raised the debt ceiling 17 times, turned a surplus into a deficit in his first year, turned the US from a creditor nation to a debtor nation.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
