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Gary3545 Wrote: Aug 24, 2012 7:34 AM

The answer to George Stephanopolous’s question: “ … how [can] an idea like that … even get in your head” is this: the same way all irrational ideas get into the heads of religious people—through the mental action method of validating “knowledge” known as, faith — that is, evidence not required and if you are really faith driven then no evidence is best and is the preferred way before the truly faithful “religious” mind concludes X (or Y or Z or whatever) is true.

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Rock Strongo Wrote: Aug 24, 2012 7:56 AM

Sort of like blind faith in the notion that Barack Obama is "brilliant" and that his policies are working. No evidence exists to support these claims (and there is plenty of evidence to the contrary), but the "really faith driven" believe it anyway.

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Akin and His Critics

Todd Akin would do his party and his country a service by stepping aside. The rest of the campaign will be dominated by this side issue, possibly denying Republicans a key Senate seat. To use the words "legitimate" and "rape" in the same phrase betrays a serious lack of judgment. Only about 1 percent of women undergoing abortions report that they were raped, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. One percent is not zero.

That much having been said, I must offer a mild dissent to the widespread view expressed by both Republicans and Democrats that what...

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