Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "I don't think most politicians believe this (or have any intention of living by these ideas) but they're more than happy to pander to the people who do." I've always thought that a large part of politicians are probably atheist, and just pretend to be Christians because they'd have no chance otherwise.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer We keep hearing about a war on religion, but it seems like it's a war that was started by religion against individual liberties. For the religious to say there is a war on religion is like Hitler saying that Poland declared war on Germany.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Actually, they kind of did. (Look up the "Gleiwitz incident" if you're not familiar.) I generally shun Nazi analogies, but it's instructive of plenty of non-Nazi situations too - when you want to attack someone, you claim they're attacking you.
