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"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom."
December 6th, 2007 (11:50 am)
Joan Walsh on Mitt Romney's speech on religion and politics:
As she noted, Romney's speech laid out a vision of America with no place for atheists, doubters or nonbelievers, and it chilled me.And:
But I wasn't reassured, I was alarmed. Romney blasted "the new religion of secularism," referring to those who continue to argue for strict separation of church and state, which apparently, like certain of the Geneva Conventions under the Bush administration, is becoming "quaint." I sometimes find the anti-God stridency of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens grating. Listening to Romney's speech I realized what a necessary corrective it is to corrosive political pandering. Calling secularism "religion" is a cheap shot worthy of Bill O'Reilly, not a major presidential candidate. I can't help hoping Romney's speech fails to soothe religious conservatives, because the sooner the Republican Party faces up to the destructive cost of its electoral dependence on religious extremists, the better off our country will be.I can only say, "Ditto."
Glad I have one, as it seems that in another 10 years or less I'll need it to flee from this country. As a member of the most hated group in America (atheists) , I'll be the first up against the wall.