It seems that both the Barack Obama and the John McCain campaigns have got themselves into a wee spot of bother - oddly enough, for speaking the truth.
First up to bat is Obama with
“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?”
Is that not the truth? How many different Christian sects are there with how many different interpretations of what their God and/or his son said, did, or meant, when he/they said this, that, or the other thing? For petes sake, they can’t even agree on the abominations.
Then John McCain’s right-hand man said that a terrorist attack on US soil would be a “big advantage” for the campaign - again, is that not the truth?
Does anyone doubt that if that were to happen that the fear and paranoia would kick up a notch and McCain would be elected by a land slide?
Amid all the spin and rhetoric isn’t it strange that two pieces of plain simple truth are worthy of controversy?
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Of course Obama is right. That is the very reason that the US founding fathers built the wall of separation in their constitution and declared - by a unanimous vote - in the Treaty of Tripoli that the US was not a Christian nation.
But in order for people to appreciate that, you have to expect them to have actually read the US Consitution and know some American history. And that kind of knowlege is in shockingly short supply in the US these days.
Pity, they used to be the beacon of freedom and now are just another oppressive regime.