To be blunt, have you ever looked at Mormonism? Native Americans are actually Jews, the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, interracial couples deserve to be stoned, etc.
The guy who attended the Brigham Young and tithed from his winnings can be assumed to pretty religious, and he stomped all over everyone on Jeopardy, a trait I'd normally consider a huge indicator of intelligence and rationality. John S. Lewis also comes to mind, as does Henry Eyring, and Philo Farnsworth - the guy who invented the Television - and Ingebretsen, the guy invented the compact disc. I'm not a huge fan of the LDS but to assume the religion itself somehow impairs one's rationality simply by being a member is not realistic.
While other religions have equally or even more psychotic scripture within, I still wouldn't vote for someone solely on the fact that they have chosen to believe in that religion. Sure, the left does spend a lot of time on religion, but not without cause.
I'm pretty sure the 'cause' for most of the left discussing Mormons of late is a simple and rather despicable desire to rabble rouse right-wing Christians against Mormon candidates, based of their own flawed assumption that anyone on the right who is religious must be a fanatic.
I find the increasing religiousity in american politics downright frightening.
Jon Huntsman, the No-Drama Conservative (he speaks like a diplomat but he is no moderate)
- 03/09/2011 05:11:12 PM
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I haven't had a chance to read the entire article yet
- 03/09/2011 09:00:22 PM
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Do we need two catholics in the race? *NM*
- 03/09/2011 11:24:19 PM
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I'd settle for one real one.
- 04/09/2011 09:44:03 PM
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Santorum is not a real catholic? Furthermore Gingrich converted to Catholicism *NM*
- 05/09/2011 12:39:38 AM
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Real Catholics, especially educated Latin-mass types should understand just-war morality *NM*
- 14/09/2011 12:47:28 AM
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Personally I think the left spends way to much time focusing on relgion
- 06/09/2011 02:04:54 AM
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Religion is an indication on whether or not a candidate is rational-minded or not.
- 06/09/2011 11:11:43 AM
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I agree the left does use religious prejudice to disqualify candidates
- 06/09/2011 02:04:02 PM
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How is it any different than Islam?
- 06/09/2011 05:00:30 PM
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Good point, they're all crazy.
- 07/09/2011 06:30:32 AM
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I am an athiest, but they are not all crazy
- 08/09/2011 02:19:38 AM
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The religions are crazy. The people believing in them are not necessarily crazy.
- 08/09/2011 06:33:46 PM
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I've yet to meet a rational sane atheist.
- 12/09/2011 10:01:59 PM
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Did you just call yourself irrational and/or insane? 
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- 12/09/2011 10:38:24 PM
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- 12/09/2011 10:38:24 PM
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It's late, so you may have to spell it out for me: Did I claim to prove a negative in there?
- 13/09/2011 12:09:09 AM
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That's a good point!
- 14/09/2011 04:34:36 PM
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At the risk of extended tangent, that's a reasonable premise, but not one that leads to atheism.
- 21/09/2011 12:55:57 AM
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To cite a pop culture figure, Ken Jennings seems pretty rational
- 06/09/2011 10:09:25 PM
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They can compartmentalize.
- 07/09/2011 06:33:42 AM
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Everyone does that
- 07/09/2011 06:59:02 AM
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So, you don't think that religiosity in american politics is increasing?
- 07/09/2011 06:56:12 PM
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No, absolutely not
- 08/09/2011 03:25:49 AM
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Why the hostility?
- 08/09/2011 03:36:37 PM
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That would be my question for you
- 08/09/2011 05:01:42 PM
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Ay.
- 08/09/2011 06:27:17 PM
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Honestly, I had the same reaction as Isaac, which is why I responded as I did.
- 12/09/2011 10:12:36 PM
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why do you think America is becoming more religious?
- 07/09/2011 03:07:58 PM
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I said religiosity is increasing in american politics, and because it is. *NM*
- 07/09/2011 06:57:35 PM
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spoken like a true believer, who needs facts when you have faith and righteousness *NM*
- 07/09/2011 09:36:45 PM
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Just based on my observations. I haven't written a report on it.
- 08/09/2011 03:38:40 PM
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Gallup has looked into it
- 08/09/2011 04:44:25 PM
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Again, that's not what I said.
- 08/09/2011 06:04:13 PM
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There's an odd line halfway the article...
- 03/09/2011 10:39:42 PM
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Which lines are you referring to? *NM*
- 04/09/2011 10:03:06 PM
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This part:
- 04/09/2011 10:25:57 PM
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really? I didn't read this as a neutral article
- 06/09/2011 02:07:22 AM
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If you read it as a positive pro-Huntsman article, that only makes the contrast weirder still. *NM*
- 07/09/2011 10:26:30 PM
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I think the problem may be your prospective
- 08/09/2011 05:09:31 AM
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Seriously? That quote parodies and mocks things that matter to conservatives.
- 08/09/2011 08:39:21 PM
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That actually sounds like a joke conservatives would say to each other where no media could hear
- 14/09/2011 12:52:18 AM
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Well, I certainly like him better than any other Republican candidate I have heard about. *NM*
- 06/09/2011 10:34:36 PM
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That actually managed to alarm me a lot more than it reassured me.
- 12/09/2011 09:52:31 PM
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