re: #188 SanFranciscoZionist

Actually, they are not. Ludwig is speaking from a long-standing tradition in both Jewish and Christian religious observance, of looking to biblical texts for guidance about what God desires of us, and using those texts to support beliefs.

Michelle Bachmann is openly claiming that God speaks to her directly and endorses her work. This is actually, within most Jewish and Christian traditions, completely different.

Right, and note that Bachmann and many others have a different religious tradition. Are you saying that the “traditional” religions are supperior to others? What about the Hindus, Buddhists and Animists? Where do we draw the line?

For me the answer is simple, a persons religious beliefs are there personal and private business, I don’t judge one superior to the other. One Principal I do assert is this:

The separation of Church and State.

I don’t want to hear about what “God wants” from by representatives, regardless of whether they are Evangelical, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, or any other flavour traditional or not.