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Originally Posted by apocalipstic
On the original question....In the words of the late greatest John Lennon....
"No hell below us, above us only sky!"
On the more recent discussion...
Why would it be a problem if President Obama were Muslim? Alledgedly the USA believes in division between church and state.
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There is also this inconvenient piece from the Constitution:
...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
That is Article VI of the Constitution. Someone--I forget who it is at the top of my head--wrote that Article VI applies all the way down to the citizenry such that if we impose a religious test for office we are in violation of the spirit of the Constitution.
We should not take into account the religion of any person running for public office. When I was growing up religion was a private affair, a matter of individual conscience. I find it terribly ironic that those who would style themselves super-patriots, the last true lovers of America would be so quick to apply a religious test for office while many of us freethinkers, attached to no religion in particular or holding loosely to something like Buddhism (as I do) apply no religious test.
Ironies abound in modern America.