Religion + Politics = Disaster

As the electoral college landscape keeps getting bleaker for McCain and Palin, their campaign has decided to attempt to revive the Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright angles of attack against Obama.

By no means do I defend Wright and his furious craziness, which can be seen here:


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36T1fnIafC0)

But McCain and Palin have their own ties to cracked-out religious leaders.

John Hagee is one example:


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNi7tPanUA)

And Rod Parsley is another:


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg)

McCain, as Obama did with Wright, has repudiated these embarrassing nut-jobs. But he was more than happy to accept their endorsements when he thought it would get him votes. In any case, at least neither McCain nor Obama were in attendance at these people's churches when the idiotic statements in question were made.

However, the same cannot be said of Palin and the bat-shit-insane pastor she's associated with. Of course, her church is pretty bizarre overall anyway.

Here's a video of witch-hunting pastor Thomas Muthee blessing Sarah Palin and her political career to protect her from those pesky witch attacks--he then goes on to describe how fundamentalists need to take over every aspect of American society:


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWM7E_WMfo)

So what I take away from this is that far too many American politicians are cozy with crazy-ass religious figures. Seriously, can we please elect an atheist or agnostic one of these days? Please?

Also, I highly recommend Bill Maher's new anti-religion movie Religulous. The Daily Iowan's glowing review can be found here.