Rick Warren's Forum To Include Questions About Candidates' Personal Lives

The questioning by Rev. Warren is another "unWarrented" intrusion by the Religious Looneys into the politics of our country. Why any candidate has to subject him/her-self to this I find an outrageous violation of the doctrine of separation of church and state.



If the evangelicals or any other religious groups want to get involved in politics, they should say so and start paying income tax like any other pressure groups! (And this includes the Catholic Church!)



I'm reminded that when Ron Reagan Jr. was asked if he had any plans to run for president, he replied that, as as atheist he didn't have a chance (to which he might have added that his background as an, um, ex-ballet dancer would have disqualified him even more.).



Rev. Warren apparently speaks to God and tells us what God "wants". Since "He" never spoke to me, I can't speak as infallibly as these guys.



I am sure that the country wants another administration as "moral" as the one we would love to simply disappear and get another president who also speaks to "God".
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Bill Maher On "Religulous": Film Till They Throw You Out

To my mind, religion has long been a black mark on human history, from the Old Testament bloodthirsty god who tested Abraham by telling him to sacrifice Isaac and who instructed the Jews to slaughter various populations that "he" didn't like, to the various "Christians" with their even more bloody history and whose god "abominates" whatever the Catholics or any other group of holy rollers says "he" does.



Look at Christian dogma: the "Annunciation" (when the angel Gabriel flies in, Mary doesn't turn a hair but merely recites the Magnificat!), the Immaculate Conception (Mary was born free from sin.), the Virgin Birth, the "miracles" and, of course, the "Resurrection". That all these myths existed in earlier civilizations doesn't matter.



And, of course, the priestly pederast sex scandals of the Catholic Church gives them the right to lecture us on "morality"!



Do they do "good works"? Undoubtedly, but so does the secular world and the religious groups' "bad works" over the centuries (in every area) easily overshadow the good.



I'm not a big fan of Bill Maher but I'm very much in agreement with him on this subject.
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