Friday, December 14, 2007

Huckabee vs. Romney: Who's More Jesusy?


Photo from source, AlterNet

As an agnostic, there is very little in politics that grinds my gears more than the injection of overt religion into the political mix. The Democrats are giving a nod and a wink to the religious folks, that much is true. But on the Republican side, the religion factor is becoming perhaps the most central issue in the campaign.

To me, Mitt Romney, uber-Mormon and Mike Huckabee, former pastor, and child evangelist are both supremely bad choices for the oval office. On the plus side, it is somewhat entertaining to see the "my Jesus is better than your Jesus" tete-a-tete that is brewing. 'Scuse me, I've gotta go pop some popcorn. . .

[Excerpt]

Huckabee's Religious Beliefs Are Just as Wacky as Romney's, So Why Should We Care?

. . .Are you f***ing kidding me?

It's bad enough that presidential candidates are debating the finer points of theology in the first place, but that the debate is supposed to prove who would make a better President of the United States is manifestly preposterous. We have lost the plot, people. . .


Read more at: AlterNet

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