The Handbook simply does not take into account why people seek out a religion and what
kind of effects religions and their advocates hope to promote in human life.
Not exact matches
I personally think
religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no
effect on what type
of leader they will be.Unless they are some
kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years
of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one
of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be
of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.
People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way
religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge
of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my
religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you»
kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any
effect, so it is just a waste
of time.
Azim Shariff, a psychologist at the University
of Oregon in Eugene, says it contrasts with his analysis that, taken as a whole, previous research found no overall
effect of religion on adults faced with these
kind of moral tests.