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Thread #110707   Message #2326433
Posted By: GUEST,Fantasma
26-Apr-08 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Subject: RE: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Credit where it's due, IMO. The University of Chicago is one of the top religious studies program in the nation, and Howard always is in the top 5 of any rankings of historically black colleges.

I'm just SO fed up with the religion card in American politics, I could scream.

I love Bill Moyers, but I am fed up listening to him go on and on and on, using one liberal religious guest after another to bludgeon the religious right with, you know what I mean?

I am not intolerant of religion by any stretch. I consider myself open to the best of all of them, but that doesn't include taking it to level of actually believing in deities. But there is much to be learned about human nature, and certainly politics, by taking religion into consideration.

But I'm still really, really yearning for life in a post-religious world.

Which is why I hate Obama so much. His use of the religion card all over the place. Makes me sick, the same way Dubya makes me sick with his use of the religion card. I see absolutely no difference between either one of them. I believe them to both be venal opportunistic politicians, using the hot button identity issues to get themselves elected president so they can be king of the world.

I'm REAL tired of the whole Wright/Hagee thing. I wish someone would lock them in their churches until the election is over, thank you very much.

The interview did NOTHING for me, except to weardown my respect for Moyers for going for the gotcha game of bagging the first interview.