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concheet · #31 (**permalink**) 03-16-2008, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Sickntiredofliblies

Here's a question that is related to this topic:
What percentage of christians would support a president that is openly atheist?

The current secularism of our government is certainly not a fond choice that the christians have accepted. Nope, they've fought it as much as possible and still are. They want our public property to display religious law and candidates like Mike Huckleberry have stated their intentions that we amend the constitution to reflect "god's law". There are many other examples today of christians that wish to revert our society to the dark ages of blind faith without reason.

Maybe. But we are still a democracy actually based on basic Christian law... no murder, no stealing, etc. Very little of the so-called far-right Christian agenda is actually law. We still have abortion-on-demand, gay rights, essentially legalized prostitution etc. I agree with Shadowman that "People of faith can also use reason, no one is looking to go back to the dark ages, but neither do I want to run headlong into anarchy," only my tendency would be to use the word "decadence" over "anarchy."

Huckabee is an extremely intelligent man. While one might not agree with everything he has to say, I would hope people would listen to him rather than tune him out because he is religious. (then of course we have Obama and his religious preacher: "God Dam* America")

We have only to look at Europe's problems with their Muslim minorities to see what happens if one becomes overly secularized. An overtly political religion such as Islam will move into the vacuum and THEN you will see the new dark ages, imho.