Sun Tzu

I think that being President is the type of job where you are not going to please everyone. You are going to make some made, and some happy. Every decision is going to have this type of effect. I saw an interesting movie a few years ago called Deterrence. One of the character’s part was the President of the US. He made the comment that it was the President’s duty to follow an agnostic mindset while in office. That of course is not true, but I thought it brought up a good point.

If a Christian President (a true Christian- not one claiming to be) is in office, then that person enters the office with the solid belief the Armageddon is going to happen. They have the belief that this world as we know it is going to come to an end. Does that have the potential to influence decisions? It would seem to me that thinking as an Agnostic (neither confirming, nor denying the existence of God) it puts the focus on the here and now and exclusively on the civilization’s progress. Not to say a Christian wouldn’t.

I debate with many of my friends about this country being founded on Christian-Judea values. I disagree.
The puritans came here to practice their spiritual beliefs, but the country was founded later because of problems with England. Where does it refer to Christ in the Declaration of Independence? The Constitution?

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking