>I would HOPE that if, theoretically, a better candidate was atheist, he would go with the better candidate. We're appointing a jurist, not a pope - and I'm a practicing Catholic, so that's not a swipe at Christianity.<
You sound more like one of those Dems that calls CSpan on the GOP line and bashes Bush.
No Christian would advocate putting an agent of Satan in a position of leadership.I suggest you do a little less practicing and a little more being.
Tell that to Constantine.
Congratulations, yours is perhaps the most ridiculous statement of the day. An atheist is not automatically an agent of Satan. In fact, there are plenty of agents of Satan masquerading as Christians these days.