But I have to say that I know a number of Liberals who revere JFK and at least some of them openly declare that people who are serious about their religious faith have absolutely no business trying to influence public policy.
My brother, for one, saw George W. Bush in the White House as a major step toward theocracy. He thought we were becoming like Iran -- because Bush was a strong Christian. To my brother, this was just wrong.
In my opinion, even the best of churches have forgotten their part in making America. They actually believe that there’s some kind of constitutional restriction on political speech from the pulpit and can’t even consider the possibility that they themselves planted the seeds of the American revolution.
And your brother was completely wrong. We hardly moved towards becoming a theocracy during the Bush years.
Liberals tend to hyperventilate and magnify their fears. Thus, a Christian in elected office to them means we are becoming a theocracy. Of course it’s absurd, but that’s how some liberals think.
I have never understood how liberals have these free-wheeling discussions about “separation of church and state”, and then take it to mean that public officials should not have a strong faith, or any faith.
I hear all these people who also think religion has no place anywhere near government. These are the people who remove original crosses and such from seals of cities. Don’t they read the constitution? Our government was based on Gd. Do they really only want atheists in office?
>> “My brother, for one, saw George W. Bush in the White House as a major step toward theocracy. He thought we were becoming like Iran — because Bush was a strong Christian. To my brother, this was just wrong.” <<
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Your brother was one confused dude!
George Bush was, at best, a symbolic Christian. He didn’t even understand that Allah is not God, but a synonym for Satan.
I’m tired of fundamental secular humanists ramming their theology down the throats of the State.
Ask your brother if we were a theocracy in 1787, when the Constituion was written. Back then most states had State Churches. Ask him if we were a theocracy in 1950, when there was prayer in schools. And ask him how atheism is not a theological position, and therefor a state religion.