Obama and Religion

[kirisutogomen]

This is the sort of thing dpolicar usually posts, rather than me, but it was my mother who pointed me at it, and I figured people might be interested anyway: Obama and Religion.

Also, I saw the movie Traitor and it was better than I expected. It wasn't precisely the genre the ads had suggested, either, which had something to do with my pleasant surprise.

Comments

[harrock.livejournal.com]

This provides as good a moment as any to trot out my original aphorism on religion: "The most dogmatic person I know is an atheist".

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

You've got a lot of company using that aphorism.

In my experience most other people are using it to defend why X Christian practice should be left officially enshrined, because not mentioning the Christian God is somehow militant dogmatic atheism.

You are probably the only person in the country using it as an actual description of personal experience.

[harrock.livejournal.com]

Actually, upon reflection, I should probably say "the most religiously intolerant person I know is an atheist". I'm pretty sure that this is due to the company I keep, and that I'd have no difficulty coming up with different intolerant people if I was in a different environment.