Would you vote for someone who consults a non-living being for advice?

Question

How can people vote for a professed 'Religious' person?

Answer 1

I think it is interesting that, in society, someone is "crazy" for talking to someone that they can't see (schizophrenics), and it is perfectly normal for a politician to do it when they say its God that they're talking to. To me, there is no difference between the two.

Answer 2

Persons of faith who pray for 'guidance' or 'inspiration' or whatever, sure. It doesn't work for me, but it's an exercise in introspection that works well for some, and if they're competent to lead, why hold thier religious practice against them.

Of course, if they pray expecting a glowy figure to apear with thier answer, and maybe a nice flamey sword with which to smite thier enemies, then, uh - no.

Answer 3

Americans are inexcusably scientifically illiterate. One of every five Americans thinks that the sun revolves around the earth, and one in three thinks that evolution is definitely false. That puts America on par with Turkey and far behind Western Europe and every other modern nation not dominated by religious ignorance and bigotry.

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mstrywmn --

Evolution is both a scientific fact (the fossil record) and a scientific theory (just like gravity, electricity, nuclear theory, and the theory of general relativity).

And apparently you did miss the fact that there is no “missing link”.

You skipped all of those sciences classes in school, huh?

Answer 4

Unfortunately, we have no choice currently but to vote for religious people in America, because ignorance and superstition reign supreme.

The best we can do is vote for candidates who don't talk about their religion, in hopes that they secretly are intelligent and aware enough to be athiest or agnostic.

(This strategy pretty much rules out all Republicans.)

Answer 5

Darth: I believe Humanist meant consult in terms of "converse with." When going to our founding fathers--or any dead philosopher--for advice, one is actually consulting their work, not them. Religious people claim to be consulting "God" or "Jesus."

I don't understand why someone consults a NONEXISTENT being for advice. Or turn their lives over to someone who has been dead for nearly 2,000 years, a nifty way of avoiding responsibility for your actions, no?

Answer 6

Ronald Reagan was elected and Cons still love and adore and worship him.

Not that there is anything wrong with having a Whitehouse staff Sorceress like Joan Quigley

Answer 7

May have no choice, politicians all say they religious get votes. Believers not vote man admit he atheist.

Answer 8

I tend to not trust people over the age of 10, who talk to beings I can't see for advice on how to run their lives or a government.

Answer 9

I would tend to shy away from anyone who gets personal advice from any dead person for the simple reason that politicians seem to be the only ones they're talking to...

Answer 10

Yes, I read the works of Thomas Jefferson, and St. Thomas Aquinas all the time. Also, Albert Einstein.

Not to mention Darth Sidious of course.

Answer 11

It is called faith...and many people have been insipred by it & have benefited from it. Don't knock it until you've tried it. However, I do agree that it has been too frequently exploited by politicians.

Gary F: Evolution is just a theory, not scientific fact or proof. Or have I missed the discovery of the "missing link"?