It really disturbs me to think that someone would base their vote during a democratic election in the United States based primarily on the religion of the candidate. I imagine that happens all the time as I figure that is also part of the reason that our current incompetent president was elected (and re-elected).
Why would a person’s religious beliefs have anything to do with their ability to execute the job of being a public servant? Why would their religion make them qualified to do the job?
I assume this kind of person would vote that way because they think other religions are immoral. Or maybe inferior? Inadequate? Or maybe they think our democracy is so weak that one evil person could undermine the entire thing?
I know that last one isn’t the case because Bush hasn’t destroyed the world (yet).
What frustrates me about this is that I feel you should vote for a person based on what kind of a job you’ll think they’ll do. And a person’s religion has nothing to do with their job performance. I work with people of different religions and I’ve never been able to draw any conclusions that one religion is better at doing a certain job than another. I just don’t think you will find any data that can support that.
When I vote for a president in the next couple years I can guarantee you that religion will be very low on the list of things I’m looking at. I really don’t care if the president is a Christian or a Jew. For that matter, I really don’t care if they are a Muslim. Does it really matter? Is a Muslim inferior than a Christian as a leader? Is a Jew?
Maybe it’s easy for me to say this because I have no religion so I can’t really align with any candidate based on that belief. So it naturally would fall to the bottom of my list, yes? But I don’t think so. I was raised as a Christian and I think there is still enough Christian residue in me to understand that just because a person is a Christian does not necessarily make him competent.
In the end, I really think that dangerous thoughts and actions like people equating competency with religion will be the death of us all. Having faith in a higher power is one thing but placing all your faith in a human being just solely based on their religious belief seems mighty risky. Many lives have been lost that way in human history and it is only a matter of time before some fanatic does something that really does end it all for all of us. The ironic thing is that it would probably make a lot of people happy because then they would finally get to meet their maker! Maybe it is a self fulfilling prophecy, that tricky book of Revelations?
As for me? I’m not yet ready to give up on this Earth so I’ll vote based on critical thinking, not my religious beliefs.
Won’t you join me?
-David
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I couldn't agree more. And people's irrational belief that my worshipping the serpent god, Set, somehow means that I'm a bad person because I sacrifice people to his hoary wrath is totally ridiculous. It's part of my religion, people! Hello! If you think drinking the blood of virgin maidens somehow means I won't do a good job, then perhaps one day soon, you shall look into his soulless diamond eyes and meet your own eternity! Set, I call thee forth! Your age is finally here! Fear, oh thee who has not the stomach for primal glee! Quake, all who shall fodder his slitherings! Give me the power, scaled one, to prepare the soil to be blackened by the fires of your ire! Set's course is clear and I shall rudder his mappings to the promised land of eternal damnation!
Figures this kind of post would bring out all the dirty, rotten Set worshippers.... Go back to Stygia you fucktard!
SET WILL HAVE HIS VENGENCE UPON YOU! TOTH-AMON AND I SHALL FEAST UPON YOUR ENTRAILS! ARISE, O SLITHERING BEAST OF THE UNDERWORLD! FOR THE RING AND THE CROWN!
Religious Christian ideology and capitalism are merging. Churches are basing new theology on capitalism globally. More Pentcostal Christian mothers are buying Hummers and Suburbans to plow their way through traffic to salvation. God has mandated the true Christians to take the oil from the cradle of civilization and use it to prepare for the rapture. That is why we haven't pulled out of Iraq, by the way. al-Malaki's government has not yet signed a contract with Exxon. Once they do, Exxon will hire Blackwater, and all our underpaid troops can come home. Why can't Condi Rice speak plain English? Oh, and God has mandated to leverage our long term economy with the finances of a filthy "developing nation" who is not afraid to feed it's people cardboard soakied in caustic soda and pig fat, and brush it's teeth with antifreeze to suck up our debt in the short run. Why bother to invest long-term when the chosen few will be plucked from the earth, from their gas guzzlers with Jesus fish. That is the tag, by the way for rapture, either a fish or a "Support the Troops (i.e. unwilling crusaders)" magnet.
Anyway, have a terrific weekend!
P.S. Set is a fag.
Are you as inundated with churchies in El Paso as Bud was in central Tejas?
I am thankful that I can go days and sometimes weeks before even a hint of religion -- no billboards, tv, radio, or traveling ministries intrude on my mind.
Unless it's the radio show New Life Live. I can't get enough of that. I'll have to write a separate entry on that.
Lou,
If you find it unsettling, I will gladly remove "Farting Preacher II" from Crappin' all over the place. I'll bet his studi smells divine, however.
Bud
No. No need to remove anything, Bud. In fact, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about, but I'll check it out.
Lou
Enjoyed Farting Preacher more than I should have. Praise Bud!
have any of you seen "Jesus Camp"? its a documentary about kids at a fanatical church camp in the plains. I left a blog about this on my myspace page. check it out!
Bud's happily submissive wife (gag), Denise
Denise - I haven't seen it yet but Alisa and I have a borrowed copy we plan to watch. So hopefully I'll be in the "know" soon...
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