People convert from non-faith to faith, or from one religion to another, or within faiths to different denominations all the time. … When someone converts to Islam, the religion the person left behind doesn’t issue threats or express fury.…
“I think she is so great that she should start her own religion -- that’s how much I love her,” the woman enthuses. … After all, Oprah has, in all the ways that matter, already founded a religion. … “Spirituality is not religion,” she asserts. But it is a guiding framework for her life.…
The Catholic Church long was suspicious of America as a freewheeling Protestant nation that rejected the state support for religion … The separation of church and state as practiced in America has given religion the space to flourish and the respect necessary for it … The Holy Father quoted the Father of Our Country for the proposition that morality and religion are the "indispensable supports" of…
Barack Obama said the people in the small towns of Pennsylvania “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like … Obama offends millions of Americans by his remarks about people in small towns, guns, religion and immigrants, and then dismisses it…
"Cling" to religion? Obama here insults all religious Americans, 80 to 90 percent by some polls. … Obama apparently believes one embraces religion out of bitterness, not due to spirituality, values, belief in or the acceptance of … Obama insults the Midwest in particular and people of religion in general. Yet he remains in touch. President George W.…
Radical Muslims view Christianity as a religion of peace. … But Christians, including George W.Bush, believe the opposite – that Islam is a religion of war.…
Americans respect the separation of religion and politics, but can they respect the candidate whose preacher loves the man and hates … Religion in our politics has a long lineage.…
We're too dumb to think through big issues, so we "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them …" … I didn't wear my religion on my sleeve, but I mentioned it now and again (as I do now and again in MULLINGS) in passing when it made … These bitter, frustrated small town people, from Southeastern Ohio, from Appalachia, who cling to guns and religion and "antipathy…
We now know that there are at least two forms of religion that Barack Obama does not believe in: the religion preached by the Rev. … Jeremiah Wright, who baptized his children, and the religion clung to by the bitter people of Pennsylvania, whose votes he hopes will … crowd at a San Francisco fund-raiser that it did not surprise him that bitter people in small towns in Pennsylvania "cling" to religion…
But he may be less lucky with remarks he made recently about embittered, small-town Americans, who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy … issues of culpability, so they resort to racism, xenophobia, isolationism, and protectionism," and "a simplistic Sunday school religion…
It's not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant … recycling the liberal cliches of the '80s, namely that
Pennsylvania's "bitter" voters have been duped by "wedge issues" like guns,
religion…
