A great example of what religion in politics SHOULD be - Buttigieg.

[LAS14]

Jim Wallis: You have talked more about Jesus than any other candidate — Republican or Democratic, why?

Pete Buttigieg: Because I think it's important and because I fear that there's been an effort to recruit Jesus into one political party, the Republican Party. And of course, God doesn't belong to a political party in this country. And as Lincoln said, everybody's trying to get God on their side, but you're probably better off trying to make sure you're on God's side. But I think we just need to even out the conversation. And there's an allergy in my party to doing this. And the allergy comes from a very healthy place, which is that we've seen what happens when people are subjected to other people's interpretation of their own faith.


https://sojo.net/articles/pete-buttigieg-faith-source-unity-and-its-role-2020-election

[msongs]

1. not interested in pete's religion thank you nt

[RLG]

22. That makes two of us.

nt

[Demsrule86]

2. I don't want politics and religion mixed period...and I am a Christian.

Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." Romans 13:1 "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. Separation of church and state is essential. This makes me lose trust in buttigeig.

[dalton99a]

4. The mayor's goal is to establish himself as leader of the "religious left"

I don't know how he can do that without black Democrats, most of whom are Christians

[Demsrule86]

8. He won't succeed...but I do not want any religion period...separation of church and state for me.

I am less likely to support Buttigeig because of this except of course in a general.

[dalton99a]

3. Leave religion out of it

[Maraya1969]

5. I understand what he is doing. And I applaud him for it. One of the right's labels for us

is, "Godless" which is fine as long as that is what you are. But plenty of people aren't. And Pete is just making that point. Plus he can tell those sanctimonious republicans to shove it!

[LAS14]

6. +1

[catrose]

7. +

[redqueen]

14. Agreed.

It's an important part of life for fhe majority of Americans.

It's a mistake to cede this to republicans because they do use it to influence people. This is smart.

[Garrett78]

9. It always amazes me when highly intelligent people believe in fairy tales.

Of course, he could just be playing smart politics. Or he could be someone who experiences a great deal of cognitive dissonance.

[LAS14]

10. When people easily settle on "fairy tales" in situations like this...

... I like to ask "Why is there something and not nothing?" Or "What created the matter that produced the big bang?" It's questions like these that cause lots of physicists to be religious.

[dalton99a]

11. 2009 Pew Research Center survey:

Most physicists don't look at the Big Bang as a religious event:

Because the universe also began as a singularity, time itself could not have existed before the Big Bang. Hawking's answer, then, to what happened before the Big Bang is, "there was no time before the Big Bang."

"We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in," Hawking wrote. "For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in."

https://www.livescience.com/63854-stephen-hawking-says-no-god.html

[Garrett78]

16. In the US more so than Western Europe, believing in that for which there's zero evidence...

...continues to be considered a virtue, but we're slowly making progress. This, of course, makes the likes of Bannon, Barr and Pompeo all the more desperate and extremist. They desperately want to bring about a pre-Enlightenment fascist theocracy before it's too late.

[Garrett78]

15. I recommend taking the time to read this lengthy piece:

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[LAS14]

21. If this weren't Democratic Primaries instead of Christian Liberals... I would have...

... take the time to explain that I don't think either of those questions constitute "proof" of God's existence. I would never make such an argument. Can't be done.

[SidDithers]

13. But Pete's apparently the "smartest" of all the candidates...

his piety is, IMO, disqualifying.

Sid

[Garrett78]

19. He's definitely highly intelligent, and I suspect he experiences a lot of cognitive dissonance.

[SidDithers]

12. Fuck no...nt

Sid

[BeyondGeography]

17. Obama tried everything and they went 81-19 for Trump

Knock yourself out, Pete.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. It should not be in politics, the end.

[brooklynite]

23. To everyone who rejects Buttigieg's engagement of religion with politics...

Every other Democratic candidate has professed religious faith and is doing the same thing; they’re just not talking about it.

[progressoid]

24. Religion is the LAST thing I want to hear from my politicians.