tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post8123815789987826690..comments2024-01-12T18:27:33.795-05:00Comments on Exercise in Futility: "A Great Blemish Upon The Instrument"Tommykeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-60939438001485902742011-12-11T10:12:04.469-05:002011-12-11T10:12:04.469-05:00The fact is the populace applies a religious test ...<em>The fact is the populace applies a religious test in a most overt way, and our politicians listen.</em><br /><br />Quite true Robert. For most of the history of the country, that unofficial religious test applied to Catholics and still does for Mormons. I wonder if the choice of candidates was an admitted atheist and an admitted Scientologist, which would the voters would choose.<br /><br />As for Obama, I know that Ann Coulter claims that he really is an atheist.<br /><br />I was thinking, to people who would ask an openly atheist candidate "how can we trust you?" his or her reply should be "because if I wasn't an honest person I would pretend to be a religious person, which is exactly why the Constitution prohibits a religious test for public office."Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35315805.post-60053747560332647602011-12-11T01:49:00.708-05:002011-12-11T01:49:00.708-05:00Still, how many avowed Atheists hold office in Con...Still, how many avowed Atheists hold office in Congress today, two maybe? The fact is the populace applies a religious test in a most overt way, and our politicians listen.<br /><br />I sometimes wonder whether Obama is really a religious man or if he just professes publicly to avoid the fallout that would surely assail him from the masses?Robert the Skeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863488312604865183noreply@blogger.com