Mr Romney’s efforts to pander to the Christian far right (which, until recently, showed ambivalence about him) are continuing apace. Discovering his motives is easy: access the massive organizational infrastructure and bottomless pockets of the Taliban in suites and ties. And he certainly did a fine job of winning their approval at the first presidential debate. We are told by Sally Quinn in the Washington Post that he won “the God vote”.
When Mitt Romney mentioned the “Creator” in the debate Wednesday, he owned it. “We’re all children of the same God,” he said. That’s about 85 percent of the country he was talking to.
See. This is one of the reasons I am so unimpressed with the so called “moderate Christians” and I think the sooner they stop going to church altogether (only a matter of time), the better off we will all be. As much as they may be against the use of religion as a political tool, as long as they identify themselves as Christians, the religious right will keep using them as pawns in this”85%” game.
Citing the Declaration of Independence, Romney said: “Second, is that line that says we are endowed by our Creator with our rights.”
I seriously doubt that when Thomas Jefferson put the word “Creator” in the declaration he had any idea how much abuse it would lend itself to. After all, people like Sally Quinn never mention that Jefferson also said this:
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
But the article only goes downhill from here.
This is a religious country. Part of claiming your citizenship is claiming a belief in God, even if you are not Christian.. We’ve got the Creator in our Declaration of Independence. We’ve got “In God We Trust” on our coins. We’ve got “one nation under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance. And we say prayers in the Senate and the House of Representatives to God.
Oh boy. The same mix of lies and half truths again. Do people who buy into the poppycock even know that “god” on paper money and pledge of allegiance are relics from the Red Scare? Do they have any idea that there was no prayer at the constitutional convention?
And we are blessed with this gem, from the article:
Up until now, the idea of being American and believing in God were synonymous.
Seriously?
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The article ends with a good bit of concern trolling.
But the God thing clinched it. If Obama wants to win the next debate, he needs to wear God, as much as it offends him to do so, the same way he captured the flag for this one.
Ms Quinn, is hypocrisy a Christian value?
