Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1113 Editor's Choice: 9
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The only way Democrats can approach faith is with generic platitudes.
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The moment they indicate that have any heartfelt spiritual affinity for anything not learned in college level poly-sci and/or sociology they run the risk of irritating their activist core. Just like any GOP candidate has to genuinely pretend to have real faith else they piss off the fundies.
It's really unbridgeable. As the country becomes more and more faith oriented with every decade, Democratic politicians have a thinner razor blade to walk on. So they're left having to mouth unassailable platitudes like "Doing Good is Good" "We should all love one another" "I identify with the message of Jesus" etc etc etc.
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h_lance et. al.
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]84% of Americans self identify as "Christian" (with the finer points of that left up to the respondent)
74% of Americans believe in some form of an afterlife.
More than half of Americans polled advocate some introduction or acceptance of religious instruction in public school
The fastest growing demographic in the US today is Conservatively Catholic Hispanic.
Of course America is inexorably shifting toward a more faith oriented base of some kind.
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But screaming for the heads of all the priests is not going to win you elections
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the 1920's & '30's in Mexico, there was active murderous persecutions against the Catholic Church. I suppose the hope was that they would wipe it out (Graham Green wrote about it in The Power and The Glory). But it doesn't work and ultimately it's unpopular. Similarly any American candidate for just about anything isn't going to get away with some of the angry crackpot things I see here "Let's Abolish Religion etc...." Please save that revolutionary nonsense for the Chinese Communist political re education camps.
THAT'S the problem the Dems have. They have a constituency that wants to trumpet some universalist aggressively atheist new world order, no matter who is pisses off no matter how many elections they lose as a result.
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not a fan, couldn't tell you either way
[Read the article: Does Madonna still matter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I would like to burn her husband at the stake stoked by every foot of worthless shitty crazy incomprehensible film that loser ever directed.
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walter_map
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please if you're going to personally insult me, at least make it more clear. What is it you're getting at exactly?
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the other part of the disconnect has to do with the 'type' of religion you're talking about
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not what brand or faith but it's very aspect. Rev Wright is a pulpit preacher. Not an academic. He's not a religious scholar. He's not a Black John Shelby Spong, for example. He's a shouter. And for Whitebread America that's offputting unless you yourself come from a raucous Pentacostal or Baptist background. It all seems a little weird to you, doesn't it. So in that way Wright was right, that criticism is in part a condemnation of Black churches, it is a little bit.
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"...do not understand how the average fundamentalist Christian manages to.."
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the confusion, that's what the nature of fundamentalism IS. "Those who insult the religion of peace shall be murdered" is another one. What's not to understand about that?
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No not more secularism, whatever that means
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They simply have to come clean when asked. Because it will be asked. And answers will be wanted, so dancing around it isn't going to make anyone happy. That's as much a part of running for office as kissing babies, making speeches at BBQ picnics and the like. That's part of the American process. You may not like it and you may patronize and condescend to those people but there it is. There's more to running for President than internet fund raising.
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walter_map
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nope. 'Fraid not, still unclear. I got the death threat thing. But otherwise, nope. Still don't see specifically what you're getting at. ARE you getting at something specifically or just venting?
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Oh my bad now I got it walter
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Jews murdered Jesus. Gotchya, Mel Gibson. Duh. I need more coffee.
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[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Walter Walter Walter,
I'm not a Christian and Atheists like you are neither here nor there. One wonders where all your hate of others comes from. Tis a pity that self professed "God's Chosen" such as yourself are so willing and eager to slaughter everyone else in the name of difference.
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so bottom line
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You could never rise above personal insults and name calling, and your buddy below, well, he's just contemptible.
Good job that, at swaying the masses, walter. There's a great political strategy. Let me know how that works out for you.
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Obama's state grant donor scandal.
[Read the article: Dem candidates up with new ads in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-killerspin27apr27,1,7650855.story?track=rss
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So at the end of the day
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon readers simply toss the entire political issue of religion out the window, toss the people who talk about it in the trash and cut off those from their own party who want to engage it. Screw everyone.
OK, I'm sure that will work out fine. Good Hunting.
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Obama's state grant donor problem
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-killerspin27apr27,1,7650855.story?track=rss
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All of this is besides the point
[Read the article: Dem candidates up with new ads in North Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama supporters and the press who kneel at their dirty sandals are completely off base when they delude themselves that Obama will win NC. He won't. He will win in Chapel-Hill (the Berkeley of the East), he will win in some of the upscale areas in Charlotte and surrounding areas and he will win in Durham.
You get it all wrong, it's not entirely a racial thing. It's a centrist thing. Obama is viewed as too radical by the Dem voters in NC which is generally one of the more conservative Dem regions in the country. True we have a Dem gov but that's like a Texas gov, aka everyone else's Republicans. And none of the Dems of any merit even want to challenge Elizabeth Dole for her Senate seat because they know they can't win.
Sorry Salonbots it's not about how we all hate and lynch black people, but they will rise up to crush Whitey no matter how hard you want to pimp that. And it's not about Wright. It's about centrism and nature of the Democrats who vote here.