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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:14 PM Aug 2012

A "war on religion"?

America is a nation of religious diversity, as well as non-believers. Like it or not, we share this country with people of many different religious and spiritual views and backgrounds.

Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Secular Humanists, atheists, agnostics, "Spiritual but not religious"....that's just a few off the top of my head. All all represented in America's population.

Our current President has acknowledged this religious diversity. He has also, far as I can tell, respected the Constitutional separation between church and state much better than his Holier-Than-Thou, "born-again" Republican predecessor. Yet, because of the objections of certain religious authority figures and their fellow travelers on the Right (I am, of course, referencing the contraception/hospitals controversy), Obama is now, according to Mitt Romney, waging a "war on religion"?

There's nothing wrong with having religious or spiritual convictions, by the way. There IS something wrong, however, with using said convictions for the purpose of political and social oppression. I guess some people, namely Mitt Romney and his right-wing supporters, can't tell the difference.


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A "war on religion"? (Original Post) YoungDemCA Aug 2012 OP
Well said! K&R frogmarch Aug 2012 #1
Someone needs ot query Bishop Romney on his views about theocracy...n/t Blue Meany Aug 2012 #2
hey, better to fight a war on religion then Iran. n/t Odious justice Aug 2012 #3
You want to know what a war on religion is? CanonRay Aug 2012 #4
+1,000 nichomachus Aug 2012 #5
+1 AnotherDreamWeaver Aug 2012 #6
Word! Raster Aug 2012 #9
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2012 #7
similarity janlyn Aug 2012 #8

CanonRay

(14,036 posts)
4. You want to know what a war on religion is?
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:35 PM
Aug 2012

Ask the guy who shot up the Sikh Temple. Ask the guy who shot up the Unitarians in Tennessee. Ask the guy who shot Dr. Tiller in church. That's a fucking war on religion, and it's being waged by the right.

janlyn

(735 posts)
8. similarity
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 03:02 PM
Aug 2012

What I find the most amusing, is these very same people will tell all about how bad the Muslims are,all the while they cannot see the similarities in there beliefs..

Both want to suppress womens rights

Both think homosexuality is a sin,and in some cases advocate death.

Both want governments run on a religious doctrine...

etc.......

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