It’s looking like Obama is most likely going to win the election. I just don’t see America voting in another Republican. Then again, America didn’t actually vote in a Republican for the last two elections and yet here we are, so anything is possible.

In my opinion, Obama is the easy choice between he and McCain, but he’s still a globalist, and he still supports the bullshit War on Terror. I’m voting for Ron Paul, but I’d feel better if Obama wins over McCain. Anyone but him!

I look forward to a president who will uphold the values and principles of the Constitution.

Oh, and the country is/was a Republic — not a Democracy.

You’d do better to read Mr. Madison, who actually penned the original founding document. You might start with the Federalist Papers.

>> The Constitution is the foundation document for the U.S.

There’s no natural law. Neither God nor religion plays any role. There are no “law givers.” Laws do not get made on Sinai. They do not get “handed down.”

The Constitution contains no reference to any god. The word ‘God’ does not appear. (’Jesus’, ‘Christ’, ‘Christianity’ don’t appear either.) The word ‘religion’ appears only once, in Amendment One.

The first amendment protects “freedom of conscience.” Initially the rights of a well-to-do white man (not slave, not female, not propertyless) to freely choose how to conduct his life as a legal person.

One Civil War (1865), the vote for women (1920), one Civil Rights Movement (1965) — that’s the turbulent blood-soaked price paid so far for extending equality (reciprocity).

>> Amendment One also establishes freedom *from* religion.

The U.S is a secular state from its inception. The U.S. is *not* one nation under any god, power, force or immaterial being.

It (she or he or some committee) doesn’t rule here. The people do. Not child molesting priests, not fanatical tax-dodging televangelists, nor cabals of delusional fundies seeking to overthrow the Republic.

God-talk disappears from justificatory language of 1776 (in the Declaration of Independence) and gives way to a view of 1786 (in the Constitution) that the people give themselves their own dignity and rights as citizens.

They enjoy or abuse their ‘freedom of conscience’ in matters of religion, speech, publications, public assembly, petitions to the elected representatives of the people, civil disobedience, and even armed revolution. Is this order on the edge of chaos? Yes.

Some conjectured divinity (or divinized leader) no longer needs to exist as a “holy lie” a la Plato for people to act in ways consonant with social order. The people are sovereign; we abide by the laws which we create for ourselves.

>> Let’s be clear here: The people are sovereign.

Christ is not sovereign . . . God is not . . . they do not exist. They are illusions no more real than Zeus, Sherlock Holmes, or Batman. And, theology is third rate fan fiction. As one wag puts it, “Theology is a subject without an object.”

There are many who pretend to speak for metaphysical nonentities, demanding social control and political domination. They should be seen for the lying frauds that they are.

They are christo-fascists, threats to our secular Republic greater than all islamo-fascists combined.

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c. 2008

And I really hope that ‘Michael Schmitz’ is just a bigot knowingly spreading hateful disinformation, and isn’t truly as ignorant as his portrayal or Barak Obama would suggest. It would seriously worry me if any significant proportion of the USA population actually believed that sort of bile.