Apparently McWay can't comprehend of an intelligent person PRETENDING to be religious in order to sway genuinely religious sheeple. Read about L Ron Hubbard some time.
I can comprehend it. I can also comprehend a desperate atheist, who repeatedly sticks his feet in his mouth, making up stuff to cover his you-know-what, when his crackpot claims get dismantled.
You have NOTHING that shows that Obama is an atheist; you have NOTHING that shows that King was such.
Would Martin Luther King Jr have become a minister if he'd been able to run for office...? I think had he been born in Europe or perhaps just born two decades later he'd have been a socialist politician or trade union leader.
Likewise, if Obama had been born in Europe he wouldn't need to maintain the pretense of Christianity during elections.
And, if Scott Norwood's FG were 2 feet to the left, the Bills would have a Super Bowl Championship.
BOTTOM LINE: IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. King was a minister, not an atheist, end of story on that one. Obama, regardless of where he was born, lives here and professed to be a Christian.
And, bottom line, YOU SAID that you'd vote for him, a professed Christian, and (by your own words) a "moron". Quit trying to make up hypothetical "would've, should've, could've" scenarios to prop up your flatten points.
They ain't atheists, period. You have NOTHING that shows either man was "pretending".
Mother Theresa's letters are actually quite explicit... she had no faith that God existed for the last few decades of her life. She simply felt trapped into maintaining the facade of piety.
Christopher Hitchens (a respected historian/biographer as well as a celebrated, outspoken anti-theist) has written very convincingly on all three of these subjects.
Wrong again. I've read her letters and they say nothing of the sort.
All across the globe, in every field of human endeavor, the VAST OVERWHELMING majority of intellectuals are atheists (or should I say: "realists"). Why should intellectuals running for office in America be any different?
Could it be that American voters are "just too fucking dumb"? (to bring us back on topic)
The Luke
You mean to bring YOURSELF back on topic. You're the one that stated that you would support certain candidates, namely Obama and Paul. Yet, the only way to get yourself out of the corner, in which you painted yourself, is to pretend Obama is an atheist, which he IS NOT. And, lest we forget, you mentioned the one reason why you would not vote for Paul, and SURPRISE!!!! His religious beliefs was NOT the reason you gave.
Europe and their alleged intellectuals have nothing to do with the matter. You proclaimed your would-be support for two presidental candidates, BOTH OF WHOM are Christians. You have zip that proves that they're pretending to do that for political expedience, relying solely on your warped (and unsubstantiated) concept that high intellects and Christian faith can't mutually exist.
What's worse, you continue to make false statements about both King and Mother Theresa. Neither denied that God existed, especially King. Theresa's letters expressed her being rejected by God, feeling spiritually empty, and thinking that He is not (or will not) answer her prayers. Again, she is hardly the first Christian to express such feelings. Many in the faith have expressed such woe LONG before Mother Theresa.
Everything she's experiencing is what average believers experience in their spiritual lives writ large. I have known scores of people who have felt abandoned by God and had doubts about God's existence....Who would have thought that the person who was considered the most faithful woman in the world struggled like that with her faith?" he asks. "And who would have thought that the one thought to be the most ardent of believers could be a saint to the skeptics?" - Rev. James Martin
To top it all off, Mother Theresa wanted those letters destroyed because,
"I want the work to remain only His (Jesus)." And, she felt if the letters were published,
"people will think more of me — less of Jesus." No matter what her peronsal feelings were, she DID NOT want them to hinder what she believed to be God's work. So much for all the atheist flap about MT.
The more you try to hide your pitiful posturing, the more pathetic you look. You find a figure whom you think is an intectual and insightful guy. Yet, when you find out he's a Christian, it skewers your warped worldview, to the point that you have to make up foolishness to cover your exposed self.
You are just as "dumb" as the American voter, because you have expressed your (at the very least superficial) support of TWO presidental candidates who are BOTH Christians.
