Reply #39: I know lots of good, church-going people who do good works. I respect them greatly [View All]

[bertman]

for that. But that doesn't mean that I want my government to be filled with people who are religious people.

Christians do not have a corner on generosity of spirit, compassion for others, and doing good works for others. I know many non-believers who do good works for others but who do not proselytize for atheism or agnosticism or any other form of non-believing.

Dr. Benjamin sounds like a compassionate person who will be a good Surgeon General. But I ask the question, why does it have to be a woman steeped in christian tradition to the point that she attributes her decision to go to medical school to be "divine intervention".

Our government will run just fine without having overtly christian, jewish, muslim, hindu, daoist, atheist, agnostic or other folks at the helm.

it's the people who wear their religion on their sleeves that bother me. Usually because they just can't accept the fact that I don't want to be one of them and don't accept their view of the world as being run by supernatural forces.