Posted on 11/02/2008 3:05:29 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
On Saturday's Religion page in The Washington Post, they highlighted the latest hot item from their On Faith website, which really should be called On Doubt, since it so heavily promotes atheism and liberalism. This time, it was New Age guru Deepak Chopra, denouncing the allegedly ridiculous idea that God should play a role in the voting booth:
There never will be, and never should be, a religious reason to pick one candidate over another. God hasn't personally voted in an American election, but he keeps voting by proxy. In an ideal world that would never happen. Supernatural beings aren't citizens. Omniscient deities don't make choices (since they already know every outcome in advance). To anyone who holds a serious regard for the Constitution, voting your faith should be a private matter, not a public one. It wouldn't make me happy to know that a Catholic friend voted for someone solely because he was a Catholic, or that a Jewish friend voted for someone solely because he took a hawkish stand pro Israel, but that's their right. No public discussion is required.
Yet we have to be realistic. God is going to vote by proxy this year. The real question is where his massive voting bloc is heading, now that the Republican Party has been so thoroughly discredited. Can we hope that religious voting will return to being a private matter? In the past, various noxious movements that were anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic made grabs for political leverage, only to sink back into the miasma. Is something like that about to happen now?
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So Deepak Chopra thinks we should still have slavery?
“now that the Republican Party has been so thoroughly discredited.”
What planet are these reptiles living on?
Chopra is a chalatan snake oil salesman who pedals feel-good universal spirtualism and oneness. He thinks levitation and transportation are possible. He’ a QUAKE who has sold a lot of dumb books. Guess that makes him an expert.
“charlatan” oops.
Here's a secular one: abortion. That's a good reason. Even atheists believe in the cause for life.
And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's. Luke 20:25.
We have a duty to vote against evil, in all its smooth-talking forms.
QUACK-—so much for typing prowess!
If Obama wins this election, we all better get right with the Lord. Those who voted for him are going to be left behind for sure.
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According to David Icke that would be the Alpha Draconis star in the Draco System.
Chopra is a “self described” expert on religion, but his books preach only thing: be one with nature. (I know, I had an ex-GF who read that crap). Just because you wrote books on a subject which doesn’t have an exact definition, one should not be an ‘expert” on it.
The most idiotic and rude thing that Chopra can do is disseminate politics which is a subject totally alien from his make-up world of spiritualism. This is like Bugs Bunny explaining E=MC2...Chopra should just stick to TV infomercials.
What would TuPoc- Choke-on-Oprah know about God?
Sonewhere there’s a ‘dicount’ motel missing a night manager.
Did you mean QUACK ? :)
Brief translation: “I’m a religious expert. Religion has nothing to do with politics. So vote for Obama!”
Sure, that makes a lot of sense.
ok never mind. Didn’t see post 7.
LOL.
There never will be, and never should be, a religious reason to pick one candidate over another. God hasn’t personally voted in an American election, but he keeps voting by proxy. In an ideal world that would never happen. Supernatural beings aren’t citizens. Omniscient deities don’t make choices (since they already know every outcome in advance). To anyone who holds a serious regard for the Constitution, voting your faith should be a private matter, not a public one. It wouldn’t make me happy to know that a Catholic friend voted for someone solely because he was a Catholic, or that a Jewish friend voted for someone solely because he took a hawkish stand pro Israel, but that’s their right. No public discussion is required.
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He should be ticked that so many of his black friends are voting for O solely because he is black.
I see nothing wrong with praying for Our Lord to send us a leader who loves this country and will protect the unborn. This could very well be 0bama. Then I will pray and believe that God will fill his heart to bursting with love for America and for the unborn.
Posted by our friend St. Louis “Conservative”
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