WP: Election Spins Not Only Facts, But Faith

[Southpaw Bookworm]

As this maddening presidential election whirls toward its conclusion, our ever-spinning candidates -- and the dizzy media tracking them -- have put God on the agenda.

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Many journalists see religion as a near-impossible subject: antagonizing to nonbelievers and offensive to those who believe differently from whoever's quoted. Our nation's founding on the wise principal of a separate church and state further discourages examination of religion's real effects.

But it's tougher to separate individuals from their guiding beliefs. A recent New York Times magazine story describes Bush's "faith-based presidency" as a "with-us-or-against-us model" that discourages doubt and discourse. I'm untroubled by a born-again president listening to his God, but I have a question: Whom else is he listening to?

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But who's scarier: The few who believe a politician is chosen by God? Or the millions more "reality-based" voters who ignore proven facts? Despite extensive publicity of the report to Congress that Iraq had no significant WMD program, 72 percent of Bush supporters still believe that Iraq had either actual weapons of mass destruction or a major program for developing them, according to a study by the nonpartisan Program on International Policy Attitudes. Seventy-five percent still falsely believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda. Kerry supporters, who hold opposite beliefs, are hardly spin-proof.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14388-2004Oct31.html

[Catfight]

1. Religion is there to control simple minded people by telling them

that wise people and educated people are evil. Therefore, they remain stupid and controlled by wise men and educated men who keep them stupid. The stupid never see the hypocrisy in their words and actions, therefore, they remain subservient to the wise men who again, state that educated people will never see heaven. How clever it all is. Read Animal Farm, it explains it perfectly.