Religion and politics
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[edit] Necessity of religiosity among politicians
- It has become part of our political culture for candidates to be forced into asserting their religiosity. The creeping emphasis on religion in our political culture, with some candidates openly professing their beliefs on the campaign trail -- at times even hawking them -- is something that should deeply concern all Americans.
- Religion in the Presidential Race: A Troubling New Precedent. Anti-Defamation League (10 December 2007).
[edit] Temporal authority for religious leaders
- The leaders of a faith have their responsibility and authority in the sphere of their faith, but in the sphere of public, of the public domain, they have no authority.
- Meet the Press Interview with Mitt Romney. MSNBC (16 December 2007).
[edit] Dialogue
- Mitt Romney: Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.
- Tim Russert: But when you say freedom requires religion, can you be a moral person and be an atheist?
- Mitt Romney: ...the founding of the nation and the, the sense in this case of John Adams describing the fact that our constitutional form of government and this American experiment required morality, which in turn required religion. And, and yet, of course, on an individual basis, you have many individuals of great morality and--that, that don't have any particular faith.
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- Meet the Press Interview with Mitt Romney. MSNBC (16 December 2007). Romney expressing his opinion that generally only monotheistically--"we're all children of the same God"-- religious people can be moral although there are specific cases--"on an individual basis"--of non-believers who are moral.
