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To: Colofornian
If the content and direction of faith is 100% irrelevant to who's in the Oval Office, then I guess you and many others in this thread wouldn't care if an atheist was in office--as long as he/she shared many of your prominent values. Correct?

Sorry, that's a straw-man. As there are very few pro-life athiests, this is very, very unlikely to happen.

186 posted on 05/04/2007 9:36:18 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
As there are very few pro-life athiests, this is very, very unlikely to happen.

First of all, "very few" doesn't equal zero. Secondly, as an example, over 20% of self-id'd homosexuals voted for Pres. Bush. You can't stereotype every atheist or every homosexual according to your pre-conceived idea of what every atheist believes. You can speak of generalities and be generically true. That doesn't make it absolutely so.

You make it a "straw man" only because you choose to give no weight to what a minority of folks within a certain identity trait might believe and practice.

Just because most Mormons don't practice polygamy doesn't mean we won't one day have a polygamist Mormon run for public office somewhere. (Oh wait a minute...I guess there are certain mayors & city council members who already qualify under that description)

194 posted on 05/04/2007 9:59:01 AM PDT by Colofornian
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