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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 06/25/2004 : 13:11:21
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Thought I'd pass this along to you good people here.
Excerpt from a recent Larry King interview. The below is culled from about halfway down the page...
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/23/lkl.00.html
KING: Do you ever think of running for office?
REAGAN: No...
KING: You've got a pretty good name going in.
REAGAN: It seems to work for some people.
KING: Wouldn't hurt you.
REAGAN: No, I'm not really cut out to be a politician. You know that I sometimes don't know when to shut up. That could be a drawback. I'm an atheist. So there you go right there. I can't be elected to anything because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist.
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Below is a recent post from a Atheist e-list I subscribe to...
I caught part of the California service for Reagan on television last
night -- these comments by his son Ron really got my attention:
"Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made
the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his
sleeve to gain political advantage. True, after he was shot and nearly
killed early in his presidency he came to believe that God had spared
him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that as a
responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference."
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Well, good for Ron for speaking those words...I'd say, aimed right at Bush jr.
George! Pay attention!!
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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ethan
New Member
USA
14 Posts |
 Posted - 06/25/2004 : 20:48:50 [Permalink]
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| Randy, you haven't told us your reasons for thinking Bush wears his religion on his sleeve just for political gain. Many believe it was a truly life changing experience for him, and those close to him say he's a changed man, and deeply devout because of his faith in Christ. Now if you're referring to the months following nine eleven and the whole God phenomenon that went on then, that's what people wanted to hear anyway, and it was very popular to say God bless America, etc. So again explain please why you believe this about him, especially since he's not an atheist and seems to have a genuine faith. |
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satans_mom
Skeptic Friend
USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 00:28:08 [Permalink]
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Eh, it's too bad really, I'd love for an atheist to be elected into political office. It would make a decent amount of sense that a person not biased toward a religion would run a country that is supposedly free of religious doctrines......
Eh, but Bush is pissing all over our constitution anyway.
Ron Reagan would sure beat the hell out of the fundamentalist right-wing Christian Bush that we have in office, according to the views of myself, that is. |
Yo mama's so fat, she's on both sides of the family.
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