I hate people!

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true, there are fanatics. but there are also people who hold fast to their beliefs, even if they are dead wrong and it is clear they are wrong. or they vote for a president because he claims to believe the same things they do and says he converses with the almighty. that is some messed up shit if you ask me. government and religion are supposed to be separat in the us so why did people vote for bush because he was going to ban gay marriage on religious grounds? i don't understand why the christian church is allowed to impose it's values on everyone in this country when we are supposed to have a seperation of state and church.

Two things, first off having faith and being an idiot AREN'T mutually exclusive lol. Second, because people will vote for those they identify with. The president is a person, and if he shares the same religious standings as yourself, that is an obvious reason to vote for him. You want to be able to identify with your leader after all. It isn't like there conspiracy behind the scenes where the church is controlling our government. It just so happens that some of these people have also learned the power of the excuse I was talking about before. This is the reason why it is important to keep your faith personal, so that others can't use it as a tool to manipulate you, like the Muslim extremists do to recruit suicide bombers.