I'm really disconcerted, if that's the word, with the infusion of religion in our national politics.

[pinto]

Approaching 60 years old here and I've never seen such a focus on who's the better, more consistent, staunch supporter of a religious based approach to national governance.

Yeah, it's always been an undercurrent. Yet the rhetoric seems to get more pointed as the long election process wears on.

We're a secular nation. A nation of laws. A nation of checks and balances.

Religion has its place in our communities. I happen to ascribe to one. Yet faith based standards have no role in our political system.

The tenants, lessons and experience of a faith may play a part in an individual's world view. Yet, the separation of church and state trumps all in political participation.

(side note to Republicans) It's in the Constitution. Read it.

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Logical]

2. FFRF.ORG will set you free!!! n-t

ffrf.org

[northoftheborder]

3. right!

[struggle4progress]

4. It's nothing new:

Even such a brilliantly sensual and scandalous poet and engraver as William Blake was not immune to mingling patriotism and religion, with the legend that Jesus' uncle Joseph of Arimathea brought him by sea to England in his youth:

Marx wrote his famous epigram Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes as the English concluded their first opium war in China, and he was familiar with the phenomenon of the merchant ships laden with opium carrying missionaries to the Chinese

Nobel laureate Tutu has a similarly famous saying describing the experience on his continent: when the white man came, they had the Bible and we had the land; and they said "let us pray" so we bowed our heads and prayed; and when we looked up, WE had the Bible and THEY had the land

[pinto]

5. ...

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[struggle4progress]

6. I gotta go -- but my friend can stick around

[edhopper]

7. "And no religion too."

That's what it says Celo.