Which Jesus freak presidential candidate do we like best?
Friday 18 January 2008 - Filed under Politics + Religion
Curious then, would you be more likely to vote for an apparent true believer like Obama or an obvious panderer like Hillary? I ask this seriously as I do think that Hillary appears somewhat insincere and phony in religious settings. Or do you just have to throw religion out the window totally as you realize that every candidate has to at least appear to be a bible thumper to get elected.
My tolerance for wacky religious views in political candidates is proportional to how much they let it directly influence their politics. There are lots of religious people on the left who support a secular government. Lots of ‘em. So Obama being a J-freak is less scary, of course, than Huckabee being a J-freak because Huckabee is proud to let it influence his politics and Obama won’t let it influence his at all.
I still find it mind boggling that socially conservative Republicans don’t take their party back. Or become Democrats. Democrats are not nearly left enough for me. They are light-weight Republicans in many respects. If we end up with Huckabee, I’d like to see a lot of socially conservative Repulicans vote for Obama.
2008-01-18 » lolife
21 January 2008 @ 9:06 pm
lolife says:
First off, not a Huckabee supporter. But…
Liberal religious fanatics OK, Conservative religious fanatics, not OK. I get it.
Perhaps I should publish some of the more, shall we say, interesting teachings of Obama’s church. Those are pretty enlightening and if Obama doesn’t stand behind those teachings, why does he go there? There are LOTs of churches that aren’t quite so radical. But Huckabee’s the nutjob, correct?
Gotcha.
21 January 2008 @ 9:36 pm
No, what I said was religious people who are secularists do not bother me. Religious people who openly let their faith influence their politics bug the shit out of me.
It’s also a false to claim that one cannot adhere to a religious faith and be a secularist when it comes to public life. Look at that — me defending religion!
Huckabee is nuts, though.