Senator Elizabeth Dole goes godless on “atheist” Senator Kay Hagan
Recently we wrote about Fox News’ absurdly juvenile blog post, “The Devil Is In the Details: Another Obama Connection You Ought to Know About“, in which the author attempts to tie Obama to, wait for it, Lucifer. The devil, as you may know, is totally evil, and you should super not vote for someone with an extremely tenuous connection to the lord of the imaginary underworld.
[That was sarcasm. Please vote for Barack Obama.]
We despaired for the future of America upon reading that ridiculous blog post, and hoped that was the last we would hear of politicians with so very little regard for the intellects of their constituents that they would try to fearmonger with such sad material. Alas, America, Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., thinks you’re even dumber than Faux Noise does.
It’s not entirely politician’s marketing team’s fault that they think their electorate is susceptible to being manipulated by this garbage. The Pew Forum on Religion and Politics reports that almost 70%, “the vast majority of Americans agree that it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs”. Regardless of political affiliation,
Overall views of the presidential candidates are linked with views of their religiosity; those who perceive a candidate as being very religious tend to express the most favorable overall views of each candidate, followed by those who perceive the candidate as being somewhat religious. Those who view candidates as being not too or not at all religious, on the other hand, are much less likely to express favorable views. Notably, even people who themselves are not particularly observant have a more positive opinion of candidates they believe are at least somewhat religious.
Americans, the Pew shows, have a bias towards thinking religious people are good guys. In light of the survey results, no candidate would dream of campaigning without professing to be religious, so a) you can’t trust that they even are genuinely religious and b) they may well turn out to be Ted Haggart-level hypocrites, a self-fulfilling prophecy with a Christ complex. Not necessarily good guys, so shake that image and give the good people at Pew a straight answer next time they call.
And what of Dole’s opponent, the atheistic Democrat Senator Kay Hagan? A practicing Christian, Kay said that Dole should be “ashamed of herself.”
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