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In reply to the discussion: So our President gets down on his knees and prays to "God". [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I'll summarize it: "Look! The president prays! Are you going to mock him? You mock Tim Tebow! Why don't you mock the President?"
The people being disrespected in the OP are unbelievers, because that's who this little nose-tweaking flamenbait* thread is aimed at.
I've said repeatedly I don't care if the President prays or not, I only want his religious beliefs- such as they are, or may be- to not interfere (as they did in the case of the previous occupant of the Oval Office) with things like support for science or stem cell research, etc. I've also said that "God" means so many different things to so many different people, apparently, that maybe the "God" Tim Tebow thinks cares about the outcome of his football games might not be the same "God" Obama is praying to... but apparently that point is too complex or metaphysical for some of the folks on this thread to want to deal with.
That said, I do NOT believe that religion has any kind of a monopoly on "Hope" (or morality, for that matter) thank you very much.
[font size=1]*this was originally supposed to be "flamebait", obviously, but upon further reflection, I've decided I like the typo "flamenbait" better.[/font]