Will O's programs crowd out religion? Maybe ...
from hotair.com
Quote of the dayposted at 10:30 pm on March 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
“I do not doubt the sincerity of Obama’s religious intentions. But while many social conservatives have pointed a spotlight on Obama’s socially liberal policies (repealing the Mexico City Policy, for example) few have paid attention to the likely impact his stimulus, bailout, and economic welfare programs will have.
One unremarked and unintended consequence of Barack Obama’s audacious plans for the expansion of government—especially in health care, education, and the environment—is that the nanny state he is seeking to build will likely crowd out religious institutions in America. In other words, if he succeeds in passing his ambitious agenda, the Obama revolution is likely to lead the United States down the secular path already trod by Europe…
In the United States, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, religious institutions have long provided crucial social and moral ballast to the individualistic ethos of our nation. For instance, as political scientist Arthur Brooks pointed out in his recent book, Who Really Cares , religious Americans are significantly more likely to give to charity and to volunteer their time than are secularists. In 2000, he found, for instance, that ninety-one percent of regular churchgoers (those who attend religious services nearly every week or more frequently) gave money to charities, compared to sixty-six percent of secularists (those who attend religious services a couple times a year or not at all); moreover, sixty-seven percent of churchgoers volunteered, compared to forty-four percent of secularists.
This is why, even though Obama’s audacious agenda might provide short-term relief to the economic and social challenges that now beset us, over the long term the Obama revolution is likely to erode first the religious and then the civic and moral fabric of the nation.”
My relatives voted for him.
They are all originally from Arkansas and all are yellow dog democrats. They hunt, fish, and gripe endlessly about taxes, gun regulations, intrusive government policy and rich Republicans. Then they go out and vote a straight DemocRAT ticket.
I call it stupidity gone to seed. Seems they all worship at the feet of their savior, FDR, and his disciple H.S. Truman. They have disowned me and get real PO'd every time I tell them "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PRO GUN DEMOCRAT!" :nono:
