Liberals? How is America's future threatened with a Christian President in office?

Question

What has a Christian President done to offend or harm you?

crushinator,

When Russia has attacked us, then we'll talk.

American Patriot,

Great point!

Ok, for all you who think there is a "Seperation of Church and State" I direct you to the following -

http://www.earstohear.net//

Hint: There is none! PERIOD!

Hildulf,

No thanks, I don't need false pretenses.

Hildulf,

No thanks, I don't need false pretenses.

Stony,

'Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and HIS righteousness, and ALL these other things will be added unto ye'

Seek ye first!!!

Stony,

That's the only difference in me and Islamofascists, I don't go around killing people!!

My faith in Jesus Christ is before all things, for if not, I would have nothing for hope of another tomorrow.

You should think about that!

Answer 1

Josh: Yeah!!, So you think Jesus would have approved of our President getting a bj in the oval office? Yeah, extra marital affair. That sounds real Christian. Oh, that's right, it wasn't sexual relations.

Separation of Church and state means that the government can't tell you what religion to practice or what church to go to! it isn't there to say that a church and government can't work together. "One Nation under God"! Period!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Not liberal, but Christian, With a Christian President (if truly Christian) the Office and the nation would be better off.

Answer 4

Depends on the Christian. what particular beliefs they subscribe to and whether or not they intend to impose thjeir beliefs when in office. I wouldn't have a problem with some Christians, but I don't want a fundamentalist who takes the bible as literal truth and rejects science and any of the crackpot "Left Behind" types with their absurd Armaggedon theories. These types could start WWIII because they don't give a crap about life on earth as long as they do something that their delusional mind will get them into heaven.

Answer 5

Not threatened at all. Why would someone be threatened by another's religion. As long as they don't cram it down my throat or only consider their religious beliefs in governing rather than what is good for all I have no problem. The founding fathers made very clear that we are not to combine church and state. It doesn't matter which church.

I am a Christian so obviously a Christian president would not bother me just because he/she is a Christian. How he/she uses his religion may be a problem.

Answer 6

This is not a liberal or conservative question. I am a not necessarily the most conservative person or hugely fanatical about the faith but I am a Christian.

I can say something quite certainly, Mr. Bush has offended me.

He has offended ALL Christians. Primarily because he done several things with which we should all find pause.

1. Using issues as wedge issues isolates and denigrates both sides of our discussions, and in nonsensical ways, reducing our commons of discourse to infantalized sound-bites which reduce to absurdity "either side" of an issue.

2. By repeatedly promoting his particular brand of evangelical charismatic variant of protestantism we have again infantalized a venerable tenant of American public discourse, which has resulted in marginalizing the traditional variants of our faith and as a result in both the world and popular culture are re branded as some 1/2 ****** escatological cult of questionable merit.


3. By taking a fully escatological position in foreign policy he has virtually guaranteed that the United States or other western powers, will suffer severe biological and or nuclear attack as a direct result of his biblically inspired foreign policy decisions which have cost far more than simple soft-power losses than other effective means of war fighting might have done.

Finally,another aspect of this damage is that, this has created manifest tragedies of both a foreign and domestic policy which actively is hostile towards and seeks to shun and exclude rationality and competence for divine inspiration and policies based on escatological intuitions.


Furthermore on your points regarding the constitution, you are patently not correct. The establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", furthermore, the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The Free Exercise Clause has often been interpreted to include two freedoms: the freedom to believe, and the freedom to act. The former liberty is absolute, while the latter often faces state / federal restriction.

This is done to protect the citizenry from being persecuted by an officially state sanctioned form or religion such as caused 400 years of nearly continuous bloody wars in Europe.

Answer 7

It's not just liberals who believe in a separation of Church and State. All of our Presidents have been Christian, so that's obviously not a problem.

The President, when it comes right down to it, is a (very) glorified administrator. Can you imagine how you'd feel if your company's office manager said you had to pray with your co-workers before getting your stationary request filled?

President Bush has been taking tax dollars and giving them to churches for 6+ years now. Given the language of the First Amendment this is clearly unconstitutional. I don't see how the GOP can talk about cutting taxes and spending and then turn around and give money to select church groups. You cry about liberal social programs but it's okay for the President to give money to your church. That's textbook hypocrisy.

Our government, courts and schools must support everyone equally and not show any bias toward any one group or religion. Favoring one over the others simply isn't fair or is it what the Founding Fathers intended.

In 30-40 years the state of Michigan will have many communities with Muslim majorities. If they say that the Christian kids have to pray with the Muslims in school and say Muslim prayers, you will be okay with that?

Separation of Church and State not only benefits our citizenry but our churches as well.

I wonder if you realize that putting your personal beliefs above the freedom of others gives you something in common with the islamofascists.

EDIT: Sir, your Christian rhetoric in reply to my answer doesn't make you right, it just makes you ignorant. It also supports my contention that you have more in common with the islamofascists who killed over 100 of my associates on 9/11 than you do with any veteran, such as myself. Your type of "christianity" is bad for America.

Answer 8

I'm not a liberal, but I'll answer...

The Christian president is an opponent of science.
He's an opponent of freedom.
He's an opponent of the Constitution of the United States.
He's an opponent of the educated.
He's an opponent of education.
He's an opponent of Freedom of Choice.
He's an opponent of Freedom of expression.
He's an opponent of Freedom of religion.
He's the most secretive president in history.
He got us into a war which has cost THOUSANDS of American lives under false pretenses (I find that pretty offensive and harmful).

Shall I go on?
Is there a character limit on this thing? Because it's a LONG list.

Answer 9

I would only be offended if said Christian President allowed his political decisions to be led by his religious beliefs. As long as he understands separation of church and state I do not care what religion the President would be.

The US's future is only threatened with a Christian as President when that President does things that are not in the best interest of the citizens of this country but are in the best interest of religious groups.

Answer 10

I could care less what a president's chosen faith is, as long as religious doctrine is not the basis of government policy.

We're against Iran and the Taliban because their governments work on that principle, remember??

Answer 11

I have no problem with a christian president who can keep faith and logic separate. It's the ones like Bush who don't even try that I'm against.

Just look at his stem cell stance. Totally illogical and only based on faith. Rationality and logic take a back seat.