Thursday, October 07, 2004

Say What?

So this morning's New York Times makes the idiocy official:
Polls suggest that Mr. Kerry may be paying a price for his privacy, with nearly three-quarters of the public wanting a president of "strong religious faith," and a swath of independent voters who identify as religious swaying toward Mr. Bush.
This on a day that Atrios dubs the media's "Catholics hate Kerry day," based on a few items stressing that lifelong Catholic Kerry is having trouble wooing Catholic voters.

What's ironic about this is that only one of the two major-party presidential candidates this year actually is a regular churchgoer. (Hint: It's not who you think. Second hint: It's not Bush.) Indeed, it would appear, sometimes, that Bush -- in addition to spending his Sunday mornings presumably practicing his putting or playing Donkey Kong rather than sitting in a hard old pew listening to boring old sermons -- isn't even terribly au courant on his Bible. Yet he knows how to lard his speech with just enough high-cholesterol godliness to satisfy the yearning of the electorate for cheap spirituality.

This is really, if you think about it, such an easy thing to fake. Indeed, in my darker and more cynical moments (i.e., all the time), I wonder if W's whole religious thing is as fake as everything else about him -- whether being "born again" is just a convenient way to render irrelevant a worthless youth of privilege, drunken debauchery, and duty shirking.

2 Comments:

Blogger Eyes for Lies said...

I think laws should force politicians and candidates from ever bringing up "God" in office or while campaigning! We are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

In my state of WI, they are running horrific ads that if you want more money to go to your church to support God, there is only ONE candidate for you.

Excuse me while I go toss my cookies!!!!

1:57 PM  
Blogger ahab said...

How right you are . . . truly nauseating. Thanks for the comment!--Ahab

5:48 PM  

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