Genesis is known to be impossible to any rational person. Shouldn't a basic knowledge of REALITY be a prerequisite to becoming the most powerful person in the world? Would you trust someone who thinks women came from a rib with a SINGLE nuclear weapon? C'mon....
2007-06-07 07:40:19 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't the screening process called 'the primaries'?
If the majority of voters also think Genesis is literal, then shouldn't they be allowed to select a candidate who thinks the same way?
I get very worried when I hear about ANYONE boiling this stuff down to a single issue. OK, so your screened candidate does not believe in Genesis. What does he think about the national debt? How does he stand on economic controls? What is his thinking about immigration?
MOST of the issues a President has any authority over have little to do with their religious beliefs.
2007-06-07 07:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would think it would be not only appropriate, but essential. I surely woldn't want someone leading our country who believes that the human race is a "cosmic accident" without purpose or hope. Such a person has no reason to be law-abiding, unselfish, etc. If evolution is true (which is impossible!) then man has no judgment, no inhibition against murder, robbery, rape, etc. After all, what's the worst that can happen? Death. And then nothing!
I prefer a president who worships God, has the spirit of Christ, and truly has a desire to "serve" his country well.
Anything less is unacceptable. Period.
2007-06-07 14:51:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since evolution is scientifically proven to happen, and anyone who knows anything about biology knows this, any person who is willing to make a judgement to the contrary has demonstrated two things.
1. They display a lack of knowledge of basic modern science
2. They display an unwillingness to explore a subject fully before making a judgement about it.
Both of these things are unbecoming of a person who will be making extremely important decisions every day. And the results of such a personality are evident in the way George W Bush has turned this country on its ear...
2007-06-07 14:59:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure.. They can screen out those candidates as soon as the screen out the ones that can believe such fairy tales as the idea that our world was created out of a 'big bang' which came from no outside force.. pushing together nothing (because without God there would be nothing to push together would there!?).. causing these finite particles to become a world with life and everything..
Once they screen out people that believe that kind of drivel, they can start screening out people that believe in a higher power.
Oh, of course, then they can start screening out people that believe in anything like love too.. I mean.. I can't see it, taste it, touch it, etc.. but *I* know it's there.. but since you all seem to insist that God doesn't exise because you can't see him, touch him, etc.. I guess love doesn't either, huh?
Then.. I guess that would just leave some unfeeling, unbelieving, unintelligent idiot to run the country...
2007-06-07 14:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by RotundSwede 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, and what about old people? Don't trust anyone older than 51. Painful memories of a world steaped in ignorance may jade our sense of objective reality. And what about those acid-heads out there voting for the last 40+ years? Many of them still believe in 'The dark side of the moon'.
2007-06-07 14:55:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
Genesis is known to be true and archaeology continues to find evidence that supports the accounts of the founding and development of the Jewish nation, the flood, altars Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob built, the Edomites, ancient Egyptian civilization. . .
2007-06-07 14:46:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the thing about how the world was created is that no one can prove or disprove anything. so obviously to screen someone out because they think a God created the world, would be as dumb as a christian screening out an athiest (wait alot of them do that already).
alright, go ahead screen em out.
Demosthenes
2007-06-07 14:48:24 · answer #7 · answered by Demosthenes 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nope, not unless you want to screen out people based on any number of other beliefs (personally held ideas that are not based entirely on facts and cannot be experimentally proven), and if you are going that far, evolution is a belief (a religion to many). what we observe around us in nature or in laboratories is mutation &/or adaptation, not evolution.
2007-06-07 14:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by Act D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether or not they accept that it is a religious story and not scientific fact.
I do have my own religious beliefs but I do not use them as a criteria on which to judge the education and welfare of others.
2007-06-07 16:41:41 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
And anyone who believes Joseph Smith literally.
2007-06-07 14:48:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋