Comments on: The Catholic Vote

By: Venkman

Venkman — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:24:01 +0000

For starters, Atheism is no more a religion than off is a TV channel. Second, is very wrong to assume that different sects of Christianity hold the same moral values. I know Atheists who are more “Christian” than those that are supposed believers. You can’t make assumptions just off of labels.

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By: Flint

Flint — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:32:30 +0000

The difference is whether they attempt to enforce their tenets upon others.

If you hold your belief higher, but do not insist that others obey your beliefs, then you are not setting your tenets above the law of the land – you are setting them apart.

You may veiw your beliefs as more important than the laws, but if you are viewing them as separate, then they cannot be “above,” because they are on a different axis. The distance between NYC and LA is less than the height at which the moon orbits, just as some view laws as less important than beliefs, but one is “length” and the other is “altitude,” so they are not in competition.

The problem isn’t the devout Muslim whose wife and daughters wear veils. The problem is the one who wants the government to force all other women to wear veils, as well. Both view their beliefs as more important than mere laws, but the first sets his beliefs apart from the law, while the second seeks to remake the law to match his beliefs.

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By: Flint

Flint — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:26:15 +0000

Mitt Obama and Barrack Romney are the same.

Remember, ObamaCare is modeled after RomneyCare. They have essentially-identical records on guns, and similar anti-gun beliefs. If you put them each in a box with a computer terminal, so you couldn’t see or hear them, and asked them questions, I doubt you could tell which was which.

If it’s between those two anti-Americans, I will be writing in “none of the above candidates is acceptable.”

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By: Raub

Raub — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:18:34 +0000

Dear me. No. That wasn’t meant as a judgement against Atheists in general, just a light-hearted guess at our friend STIG’s possible state of mind when typing. He was possibly just a little cranky while skimming Mr. Ogre’s blog. We all have our off-days and moments of flawed manners. There are endless truckloads of religious people who can give one a dim view of organized religion. The trick is to remain intellectually honest about it and avoid universal statements or declarations that are overly generalized or pointlessly rude. Ie; don’t be a bigger dick than you have to be. It doesn’t really help.

Raub:)

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By: James

James — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:36:44 +0000

DB:

Romney will be the Republican candidate come November. I pray that your dislike for him does not prevent you from voting for him. I’m sure you won’t be voting for Obama, but please do NOT stay home on election night because you don’t care for Romney. I have too many friends who are already talking that way. Every election I hear about how we need to defeat the Democratic candidate “or the country will be lost”. I heard that line with Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. But the reality is that THIS WILL BE an election whereby the results may likely change the country forever. Romney is not the greatest, I get that. But Obama is so far worse that the implications of another 4 years for him is hard to contemplate. He will get to choose at least one more Supreme Court justice. Just at Elena Kagan. Kagan has said repeatedly that her “model” supreme court justice is retired Israeli supreme court justice Aharon Barak. Mr. Barak is clear in what he believes a judge should be: a person who does not look to the letter or intent of the law, but someone who weighs the circumstances and decides how to rule based upon what the “social good” dictates. Barak is Kagan’s “hero”. She’s used that term. Thus, her idea of what the constitution says depends on what her personal beliefs are. Can you imagine that? Forget about the second amendment, which she believes does not confer an individual right, but consider the fact that she has been on record as saying that the public should be disarmed. Obama, Kagan and their ilk are the people who worship at the alter of Man. They are Godless. They reject the idea of natural law. The law is whatever they believe or say it is. We cannot have another 4 years of Obama. You must vote for Romney. You must tell your friends to support Romney. It’s a moral imperative to keep Obama from another 4 years.

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By: Kristopher

Kristopher — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:06:18 +0000

Hmmm … I’m an atheist, but I don’t have any desire to force the religious to pay for other people’s activities.

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By: wyatt

wyatt — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:52 +0000

December?

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By: db

db — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:00:05 +0000

As a devout practicing Roman Catholic, I would have to say that there are more DFL Clergy then Laity (congregation). You will find a slight majority of pro-infanticide reprobate Catholics east of the Mississippi, but west of ol’ Miss we are majority Pro Life. Us Knights of Columbus see to that. My daughter and her catholic girlfriends wouldn’t think of aborting. The young girls that have gotten pregnant are keeping their kids or giving them up for adoption.
Remember, if you are pro-infanticide, you automatically excommunicate yourself from the Catholic Faith and choose do damn your soul to eternity. Pope John Paul II saw to that. So, unless Pelosi repents, and I pray she will, she has set foot to follow her master Satan into hell of her own volition.
Now, if the Catholic Church ever allows gay priests like the Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, etc., I will be joining the Church of LDS, my second religion of choice. All Catholics I know have zero problems with Mormons. In fact, outside a few lunatic fundamentalist churches, Mormons are a non factor and this is just something the press keeps alive and tries to make it an issue because Romney is a GOP taking going after their boy, President Obama.
I don’t like Romney because of his political record, end of story. Same goes for the other two front runners. I like the guy in last place, but, unfortunately, he is getting no traction so I will likely be forced to hold my nose at the booth again in December.

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By: James

James — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:34:17 +0000

As a Catholic, I can say unequivocally that a young, Catholic female college grad stacked with $150,000 in student loan debt and no job prospects is still 50% likely to vote against Romney only because he is pro-life. The whole “Catholic Vote” angle dies with the 60′s. Obama and he buddies know this. That is why they were so brazen to act as they did against the Church. We’re in serious decline folks. And there ain’t no comin’ back from it. Keep your powder dry…….

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By: Raub

Raub — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:29:05 +0000

That is true. And if anyone of TJ’s caliber or philosophy were advocating a re-write or re-build, I’d be game to discuss it in detail. But in this enlightened age or ours, we tend to hear people decrying the Constitution for its failure to describe or allow a total autocracy.

Raub:)

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