Today, Glenn Beck hosted a rally at the Lincoln memorial, ‘a few steps down’ from where MLK gave his speech today, many years ago. He opened the rally with cheers when he stated that “America today begins to turn back to God.“ This is an excellent example of how intertwined the message of Christianity is with politics, especially Republican politics. What does this matter? One should be concerned when someone does not make any sense, then mentions God in front of thousands of people, and they all mindlessly celebrate as though the substance does not matter, only the branding.
This Pew study, with the graphic to the left in particular (although there are many other items worth viewing on the link), shows, for example, that 14% of the people who voted for Bush said that the most important candidate quality was “strong religious faith.” Why aren’t things like ‘bring about important change,’ and ‘intelligent’ more important to people? Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (intelligent conservatives aside) are excellent examples of how many Americans don’t want intelligent leaders, they just want devoutly religious leaders. This sort of mindless mentality is not good in politics. Even to a lesser extent the Obama rants about ‘change’ and ‘hope,’ are examples of a similar problem.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-beck-rally-20100828,0,6808932.story
religion is nonsense and i wish it would disappear.