"Freedom is important to Republicans as long as someone else pays for it on the battlefield and on April 15th."

all religious people are morons. this is fact. accepting even an iota of religion as true requires a level of mental retardation that immediately disqualifies a believer in any higher form of thought.

liberals, although they like to believe themselves to be intellectually superior to conservatives, are not quite so superior as to avoid the disease of religion.

they too can be morons.

to a bunch of morons, different levels of moronicity amongst themselves may seen significant---this may allow liberal religious morons to consider themselves more intelligent than conservative religious morons, maybe because the former believe that yahweh created the universe 15billion years ago while the latter believe that this happened just 6000years ago.

to an atheist standing outside the moron-pit, these trifling differences are without distinction. a quantitative squabble about the duration of time in the past when some magical miracle occurred is trivial when compared against the mental depravity that accepts miracles in the first place.

An extreme example is former Evangelist (heavily involved in the founding of the Religious Right) Frank Schaeffer kicked some serious ass on D.L. Hug-Lee's show the other night.

Amazingly he left the Religious Right and is now a religious liberal who supported Obama. 

Click Here to watch Frank describe the Religious Right

So yes.

"People who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them." LL

"he believes that ALL religious people are against abortion. ALL religious people are against stem cell research. ALL religious people are against science."

I can assure you that Cenk does not actually hold these opinions. What he means to say is that ALL the people who oppose those things do so for religious reasons. These political fights are always waged against the religious. People are so accustomed to the taboo against criticizing religion that whenever anyone crosses it they over-react.

No matter how much religious liberals distance themselves from the religious right, they seem to always take offense when non-religious people criticize them. As if to say, "Yes, we can criticize them, but just stand back there nonbeliever, you're out of line!"

One thing I admire about the fundies is that they stay true to their faith. They own it, unlike the modern religionists who play shell-games and do a tap-dance when talking about faith.

Of courrrssse!

It seems hard for those who do not have a spiritual life to understand why faith is such an important part of the lives of many of us libs. But when fear-filled, doctrinaire evangelicals claim God's role in advancing their own political aims, it is not difficult to understand why non-religious people would think we're all like that.

But I do weary sometimes of other libs presuming I agree with the nut jobs who use God's name for their own vain ends. Most of us have read the commandment that addresses this issue. It's not a new issue.

The very founders many of these misguided people claim to revere for their so-called Judeo-Christian heritage were also the strongest proponents of church-state seperation. Cenk's Monday guest had it 100% correct. The politically conservative Christian religious groups have been co-opted by power-driven politicians simply for their own ends. In order to be receptive to God's leadings, one has to maintain a somewhat open heart. And it is a deeply immoral act to poison that vulnerability with hatred, greed and fear, as Rove etal have done.