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To: TBBT

So “free market” Sowell just endorsed a guy who on Sunday divided the electorate into “believers” and “non-believers.”

So my question is, “do you have to believe like Ted” to be a believer? Madison said this was extremely dangerous, because Madison, a loose Anglican, saw immediately that people who weren’t “believers” like the majority would face problems from, say, the Puritans. (People such as the Baptists, whom the Puritans persecuted, but didn’t kill).

When you begin dividing the electorate as “believer” vs. “non-believer,” it will inevitably come to “whose specific belief” is acceptable? We already see Freepers who rejected Carson because he was a Seventh-Day Adventist, Romney because he was a Mormon. Does it get to Catholics?


23 posted on 02/16/2016 5:54:52 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

yep it’s evangelicals vs everybody else.. and you wonder why Cruz is going to start falling apart with the American electorate.. they don’t like religion pushed into their faces,, they never have.. it’s a personal thing that they don’t want politicized,, preaching an hour sermon Sunday put a lot of voters off even here in SC I can tell you,, notice his poll numbers dropped after that


33 posted on 02/16/2016 6:02:18 AM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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