Hillary is still in the race? Yeah, I thought I smelled something ....

I don't want the most gullible candidate, I want the one best equipped for critical thinking. Lack of logic leads to things that don't make the slightest bit of fiscal sense, like Hillary's health care plan.

I agree. Let's have a candidate who's demonstrated at least once in his life that he's capable of having an independent thought that wasn't spoon fed to him by an advisor, an opinion poll, a psychic, or some talk radio gasbag on the relevant side of the political spectrum.

I, too, get a bit disgusted with the sanctimony sweepstakes every election year - wherein each candidate tries to out-holy the others. Religion should be a mostly-private matter, not a DKNY sweatshirt. And prayers should be supplications, not marching orders to God as to who should be smited this week.

Didn't First Lady Hillary Clinton have "conversations" with Eleanor Roosevelt? Do these "conversations" indicate Hillary is "spiritually rich?" Will Eleanor be helping Hillary with policy decisions?

There's no such thing as "critical thinking".

Thank you! Thank you very much. You're too kind. No, please. Thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Even_Wrong

"People cling to faith because they're irrational, and want magical solutions, and because..."

Amy, you're indulging in a little magical thinking of your own if you actually believe that you know what is behind the thinking of every religious believer on Earth.

Of course, I doubt that you've got the aid of the Force or any other paranormal phenomenon in diagnosing the mental problems of all the crazy religious rednecks (as you see them, anyway) living out in the hinterland.

Nor are you actually indulging in magical thinking. Instead, you are indulging in lazy thinking: You've either taken a few of your own experiences with religous believers you know and extrapolated that limited experience out to the entire human population, or worse, you've taken your own private theory about the nature and causes of religious belief and assumed it to be a universally true fact. Either approach constitutes faulty logic.

Your description is undoubtedly true of SOME religious believers. It is also undoubtedly NOT true of others. You cannot make it true by denigrating everybody who doesn't see it your way.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/self-importance

Well Dennis since you seem to be a rational person not interested in magical solutions please give us your rational explination and proof of god

Lack of logic leads to things that don't make the slightest bit of fiscal sense, like Hillary's health care plan.

Agreed. I. Still. Loathe. That. Phoney. Bitch.

Just sayin'.

...Not Even Wrong.

That statement sets up a whole different way of looking at people like Dennis, "either approach constitutes faulty logic." This guy is "not even wrong" because if he where to sample only a few of Amy's writings, examples could be found that rational logic is used throughout.

Religion is not even wrong, just look at creationism.

**It especially disgusts me that Clinton and Obama will be having a faith-off tonight on TV, as if superstitious belief, belief without evidence, is what we need from a leader of what's still the most powerful nation in the world.**

Not to be outdone, Bush has invited more than 7,000 people to trample the White House lawn to celebrate His Papal Goodness after President Bush GOES TO THE AIRPORT HIMSELF TO PICK UP THE POPE.

Later, there will be a gigantic, expensive, White House dinner for the Pope, which the Pope will not attend.

Why? According to Bush, it's because (1) the Pope represents millions and (2) he's a man of faith.

Now join hands and sing "Let's All Gather At The Boob Tube, And Fool The Christians One More Time!". Both parties join in.