of course it is a reason to vote against him--
unless you share the same set of assumptions, bush's entire worldview is irrational. for it to function as irrelevant, you would have to yourself be a fundamentalist protestant.
i was raised catholic and have never met anyone who ascribes to catholicism who imagines the relation of god to believer in the same terms as a fundamentalist protestant.
and who are the fundamentalists to impose their particular, kinda bizarre understanding of what constitutes "real faith" on others?
and what turn of events has brought us to the point where they do not have to frame themselves as being a particular set of believers, operating in particular cirumstances, on the basis of a very particular set of assumptions about the nature of belief?
and what does any element of that belief system have to do with democracy?
how could you expect someone who thinks god whispers in his ear to take opposition seriously?
and how is the inability to consider what opposing viewpoints have to say not a recipe for irrationality?
and how has the bush administration not demonstrated this problem again and again and again?
and if this is not a criterion that can and maybe should influence how you vote, then what is?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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