Great! Just what we need, MORE God in "the public square"!

[MNBrewer]

On campaign trail, Romney ratchets ups God rhetoric

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/on-campaign-trail-romney-ratchets-ups-god-rhetoric/

"At campaign events these days, Mitt Romney often says that if he is elected president, he will emphasize the role of God in American society and will not “take God out of the public square.”

That kind of rhetoric is a departure from earlier less God-focused versions of the Republican candidate’s stump speech and his early apprehension with discussing his Mormon faith."

[Enrique]

1. he's calling it his "Hail Mary" strategy

[nc4bo]

2. I think I'll invest in a silver crucifix and grow a few fields of garlic to protect me from them.

[cthulu2016]

3. Then we need to talk about Romney's God, don't we?

He is making his God an aspect of policy, so a halfway sane country would want to know what this God of his is like.

And America would be shocked to find out.

[MNBrewer]

5. I was thinking of "god" in general....

I think we have some excellent examples of what happens when too much god gets inserted into the "public square" going on all over the world right now.

Personally, I make very little distinction between his god and Obama's god.

[cthulu2016]

6. I do not either. But the voters he is appealing to do care.

As an atheist, I don't have a dog in this fight.

But it has to be "fair" to examine the religious views of self-avowing would-be theocrats.

The inverse is too senseless.

[a geek named Bob]

4. I don't know...

A good church sing-a-long (after imbibing some communion wine) can be a lot of fun...

[jmowreader]

7. This tells me he's in danger of losing his base

Romney's base is down to two groups of people: EXTREMELY rich people (the kind who consider anyone with less than $10 million in cash on hand to be "lower middle class&quot who want him to eliminate the capital gains tax, and hyper-religious people who are looking for a clean-shaven Mullah Omar with a cross instead of a turban.

Those guys are mad about things like not being able to put a creche in City Park, so if Romney starts talking about keeping God in the public square (apparently that huge tax-exempt building he lives in now ain't good enough for him) he might retain the Christians.

As for the rest of them, most extremely-rich people would be better off with Obama's policies than with Romney's...having a zero-percent tax on investment income doesn't do you much good if your investments all collapse thanks to Romney's policies.

[rurallib]

8. maybe we ought to have lots of gods in the public square

Allah, Zeus, Ra, Krishna on and on. Every square could have hundreds, every invocation could go on for hours praying to each one.
Maybe then people would realize what fakery it is.
Or they'd kill each other in a couple of weeks.

[MNBrewer]

9. Statues? Public art? I could go for that

[HeiressofBickworth]

10. Hmmm, I wonder

Are his increased references to god made to introduce us to the White Horse Prophecy whereby Romney and the LDS believe that he will be president and LDS will govern the country? It is their intention to have a theocracy -- just their brand and not the others who also believe in a theocracy. That's the problem with wanting a theocracy: who's will be the dominate entity?