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Originally Posted by molson
But the mutually exclusive thing is my point - do you really think Palin is in favor of the war exclusively to please god, or do you think there's overlap with her own foreign policy views?
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It certainly can push what I believe to be bad fundamental decision making and bad "attacks". For example, book burnings, teaching of a non-scientific issue in publicly funded schools, etc. Its not always about war.
I dont want you to think that i dont see your point that a pol could make a decision without consideration of religious faith and than afterwards, in soundbites, attach some religious belief to it however I think that that is an awfully convenient way to hide said motivations if need be. Which do you choose to believe? On the one hand you have the "you cant remove religion from decisions" and on the other you have the "religion didnt play a role in the decision but we'll throw some religious and faith based verbiage on it afterwards" (or at least not a big enough role to have an affect on the direction chosen). Ill go with your first argument that a person with Religious faith, so strong that it invades their public speak should stand behind their religion and never give it up....but that certainly, IMO, precludes them from holding public office no matter their religion. I guess we could argument semantics about where that line is but based on the quotes Ive read thus far, Palin has crossed that line in my book but perhaps not in yours or others. I would expect the same from Lieberman, Romney and others and will consider this one facet of a ticket's full picture when casting my vote and hope that others do too.