Here's my two favourite infidel responses to Mitt Romney's deeply offensive speech on religion yesterday, which conveniently left out we of little faith.
Kevin Drum hits the hardest in the most overtly angry post I think I've ever read from him:
I can't tell you how much this pisses me off. I'm well aware that this is par for the course among Republican politicians these days, and Romney is doing nothing more than engaging in what's become routine conservative disparagement of those of us who aren't religious. But the cowardice and pandering here is just phenomenal. Not only does Romney not have the guts to toss in even a single passing phrase about the nonreligious, as JFK did, he went out of his way to insist that "freedom requires religion," that no movement of conscience is possible without religion, and that judges had better respect our "foundation of faith" lest our country's entire greatness disappear. And that was just the warmup.
And here's Michael Weiss over at Snarksmith, an ever brilliant blog, on Romney's ridiculous phrase, "the religion of secularism":
There is no such thing as the 'religion of secularism'. It ranks not as even a cute form of semantic jujitsu. An atheist who goes to the Supreme Court asking that his son be excused from delivering a pledge of allegiance with the words "Under God" in it is an atheist who chooses not to be anesthetized by warm consensus and to hold the First Amendment to its own clear language. There is nothing 'religious' in this. Laws exist either to be broken or upheld. Although it is refreshing to see the faithful using the term pejoratively, sneeringly for a change - if only they followed this line of thought to its logical conclusion.
Here, here boys.
