So apparently Mitt Romney very carefully dodged the religion question.
The talking heads of course, have plenty of sentences they pronounce but put very little information into them. In fact, if I didn't know for certain that they're idiots who failed in other careers, I'd guess they were part of some NWO conspiracy to hoodwink The People. Of course, this has nothing to do with reality, since The People have long ago given up on government as anything but another parasite to pay off, and that's why no matter how much you idiots protest George Bush we'll put another person like him in office, democrat or republican. Guaranteed.
Mitt Romney wants to be president of the USA, but he's a Mormon. He did not endorse separation of church and state in his speech, but he did imply that his belief would have no bearing on his being in office. As if that didn't saturate you in bullshit, he backed off from and the talking heads fled from talking about the real issue here, preferring instead to nibble around the periphery.
First, the idea of church and state being separated is unworkable, and was never intended in the way Americans interpret it. What they meant was "our government can't have a state religion," as they do in England. Too late: anything can become a religion when dogma oversteps the lines of demonstrable reason. If we believe that terrorists hate our freedom, that's a religion. Even more, all of our leaders are Christians or Jews, with a smattering of Muslims for PC affirmative action credit. We have a state religion, we're just smart monkeys who don't
officially state it as a state religion. How clever.
Next is the idea that doctrines don't matter. Compare Romney's statement to these: "I believe in al-Qaeda, but it shouldn't make a difference running for office" and "I believe in abortion as a legal right, but it shouldn't matter." Doctrines are doctrines, whether we
officially label them as such or not. There are differences between the sects of any major religion, and insisting that we pretend there are not is to put our heads in the sand. Note that I'm not commenting on Mormonism specifically, but a general principle. Rastafarians are Christians too.
Finally, they're denying the fact that we do have a state religion, which is that the state cannot have an
official religion but that we'll all talk about religion to maintain the power balance. We want someone who
appears to be a whole family man, and is
officially considered safe by some religion, so we pick lawyers with lots of money and big doofus families. Our religion is that our freedom is open for anyone, but we're going to use that freedom to make sure we apply standards which aren't
official but might as well be.
Misanthropy courses through the veins of any smart person who reads the news with a critical mind. Of course, that person is also such a minority that if they dare speak their mind, they will be crucified and labeled a child molestor. C'est la democracie.
