Dezerteagal5 wrote:
How would you feel if a religious extremest got elected into a powerfull seat in the government, and made serious decisions based on there belief in god??
For me, being an athiest, that would piss me off beyong belief!.
How would you feel (whether your an athiest or a believer)?
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For example, a politician bans condoms in your state because he feels that god doesn't want people to have sex unless its to make kids.
I thought you came from the US, in which case you already live in a country with such a government.
G.W. Bush Quotes:
"Our priorities is our faith."
"I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president."
"Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do."
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."
"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
"[I encourage] employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land."
"Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and should support effective social services, including those provided by religious people and organizations. When government gives that support, it is important that faith-based institutions not be forced to change their religious character."
"Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character.... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue."
"Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess -- the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God."
"I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person."
"My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives."
"And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image."
"In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives."
"I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened."
"After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism."
"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
