How Pious the Prius Party Poll

[Wildkow]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ May 5 2006, 06:39 AM) [snapback]250171[/snapback]</div>

i really don't care as long as they don't go around trying to get elected solely by appeal to a certain group of religious people.

using religion to your political advantage... that's downright nasty.
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What she said. period.


Ha!!!!! Something we can agree together upon. I'll feeling giddy!

Wildkow

[galaxee]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ May 8 2006, 01:42 PM) [snapback]251561[/snapback]</div>

What she said. period.


Ha!!!!! Something we can agree together upon. I'll feeling giddy!

Wildkow [/b]

let me pick myself up off the floor...

[Wildkow]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 5 2006, 05:09 AM) [snapback]250147[/snapback]</div>

George W. Bush = worst president in history
George W. Bush = Christian
Some kind of connection?
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A rather weak one since it is only one, compared to the fact that all US Presidents were Christians.



Wildkow

p.s. Sorry for the cheap shot I couldn't resist I knew someone would bite though!

[larkinmj]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ May 8 2006, 03:24 PM) [snapback]251623[/snapback]</div>

A rather weak one since it is only one, compared to the fact that all US Presidents were Christians.



Wildkow

p.s. Sorry for the cheap shot I couldn't resist I knew someone would bite though!
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Oh, I forgot- you are the expert statistician, right?

[windstrings]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 5 2006, 05:09 AM) [snapback]250147[/snapback]</div>

George W. Bush = worst president in history
George W. Bush = Christian
Some kind of connection?
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Good thing you don't know anything

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ May 5 2006, 06:39 AM) [snapback]250171[/snapback]</div>

i really don't care as long as they don't go around trying to get elected solely by appeal to a certain group of religious people.

using religion to your political advantage... that's downright nasty.
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thats the democratic trick... they proclaim allegiance to a religious party in public but deny it in their personal lives.

I think its a moral obligation to admit your religious stance in public that you believe in private.

Politics have everything to do with religion because politics have to do with avocating and being an ambassador for the people. People are religious.

"using" religion is bad, but "being" religion is ok.

At least those who vote will know what they are voting for.

I would rather have someone who states his faith and is honest even if I don't agree with it rather than have someone who appears to take a religious stance when it is not in his heart at all and he is just "using" religion for his own personal political gain.

Study a candidate before he was running for office and see what his "and his families" religious stance was then.

[eyeguy13]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(windstrings @ May 8 2006, 11:49 PM) [snapback]251982[/snapback]</div>

I would rather have someone who states his faith and is honest even if I don't agree with it rather than have someone who appears to take a religious stance when it is not in his heart at all and he is just "using" religion for his own personal political gain.

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Ahhhhh, but how many Americans would vote for a Muslim Presidential candidate??? Or a Jewish candidate. I'm not attacking you, just a rhetorical question open to anyone.

My bet, not many.

Good example of what you stated above is George W. Bush. He HAS used religion to his personal gain. What was his first act upon entering office in 2000? Faith Based Initiative. Faith Based. The religious vote got him elected in 2004. There is no denying it. States fell red based on moral/religious issues. Period.

I really wish there was a true separation of Church and State.