christians scare me

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I'm not responding the rest of the thread, just voicing my thoughts.

Having religious people in power does not necessarily scare me. It is possibly to be perfectly reasonable and religious. I might worry a little about what sort of decisions a strongly religious person might make, given that they already (in my view) accept illogical ideas, but that is not significant; it is possible to be reasonable and religious. However, I am scared by fundamentalists holding a position of power. Many of these people demonstrate a shocking disregard for human rights and for the enviroment. I do not want somebody in power who believes this world doesn't matter because the "Second Coming" is right around the corner. Nor do I want somebody in power who will use their personal beliefs as justification for discrimination. Nor do I want somebody in power who will try to replace science with their beliefs.

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I'm not responding the rest of the thread, just voicing my thoughts.

Having religious people in power does not necessarily scare me. It is possibly to be perfectly reasonable and religious. I might worry a little about what sort of decisions a strongly religious person might make, given that they already (in my view) accept illogical ideas, but that is not significant; it is possible to be reasonable and religious. However, I am scared by fundamentalists holding a position of power. Many of these people demonstrate a shocking disregard for human rights and for the enviroment. I do not want somebody in power who believes this world doesn't matter because the "Second Coming" is right around the corner. Nor do I want somebody in power who will use their personal beliefs as justification for discrimination. Nor do I want somebody in power who will try to replace science with their beliefs.

I firmly believe that a lot or most of the decsions that the current United States Adminstration makes are in fact based on Religious beliefs, plus the current ADm, made it celar from the begining, that they want to give granrts and donations to "Faith Based Groups" if this is not religious beliefs wouls somewone please clearify to me what a "Faith Based" group is, this has been evidenced for example by them Vetoing Stem Cell Reasearch when even poeple like Nancy Regean suport it for Scientic reasons i believe it was vetoed because the Religious Right supports the Current Adm. they are oppsed to it and the Adm, does not want to loose it's suport, even JohnMcCain supports, Arnold Schwarzenegger among other Republicans support Stem Cell research, this is just 1 example, i will not list others