Voting is moral duty, not spiritual

hello my friend i have never yet met... any line of truth wiszzz-duMMMm, or opnionion deserves thier rightful place in life and conversation... the problems come win people get two smart.. and elle-A------vate 1 two another... The christian bible clearly says ...give un two Caesar whut iz sieze-her...and give too God what is God's.. pretty simple stuff eye think even a pope might 1 dey be able two understand the mean-hing ;-)~ people vote when they know it counts and will get results they don't like puppet showz.... his-story shows houses of card all fall down .... butt the simple-est trugh is a foundation that will stand 4 ever.. true is true.. don't let any-1 change the meaning of trew

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Oooopss, Ooopsa,

"I Like VYASA, but I Don't like his Hindu's"

ooooppssa, Meant, "I Like GAUTAMA, but I Don't like his Monks. AND Or

"I Like CONFUCIUS, but I Don't like his Followers", TAO Et al but..." Ya.

F A R N A Z M A N S O U R I2:

NOMOSTAE!

It is Dhalwi [Hannukah] nigh/Dayst in Sweet Sweet INDIA. And

Poppa "Mahatma Gandhi {pbuh et al}"

Was right to say, "I Like MOSES, but I Don't Like his JU's". [Similar said].

Oooppss, Correction: I Like MUHAMMAD but I don't Like his MUhammadans" [Similar].

Oooppps, ooopss meant, "I Like JESUS, but I Don't Like His Xristians" [Similar Said].

Oye...!

Antisemitic Gandhi,

Having lost your job for your antisemitic rants published here, you were to have reported on what you learned from the aftermath of the scandal you created.

You have not done so. You are several years overdue. I would imagine that the father of Daniel Pearl, who wrote on this thread in reply to your disgusting discourse, would be particularly interested in knowing your moral disabilities have been removed.

As for your views on the topic, nazism is not considered a religion; hence, there will be no referendum on building concentration camps stateside.

more religions of peace BS.vote who u want but spare us the propaganda crap

It may be possible to completely separate organized religion from politics, but it is impossible to separate faith and politics. People vote based on what they believe is right and wrong. If a candidate were to say that his intention was to destroy the environment by cutting down all forestation and dumping our waste into all bodies of water, would you vote for him? Of course not. What we believe about right and wrong influences our decisions. Some people believe abortion and gay marriage are wrong. That's their belief system, and they take it with them into the voting booth. I wouldn't expect an environmentalist or an evangelical to abandon their morals outside of the polling station. News flash: it ain't happenin'.

Sigh. The constitution requires that the state keep out of the business of establishing religions.

It guarantees freedom *OF* religion, not freedom *FROM* religion.

Go. Read it and weep.

The relationship between morality and religion is coincidental.

"I believe it is the moral duty of every individual to vote in an election..." Since it certainly is not "immoral" if one does not vote, you probably should modify the word "duty" with the adjective "civic," as in "civic duty," rather than "moral," at least if the subject is voting.

BALONEY! There is no moral vs. spiritual division for the Christian. I vote as the Spirit leads me. I don't need a church leader to tell me how.

Fortunately I am an atheist so I don't believe in 'morals'. I won't vote until the the drug war is stopped. The drug war may be moral but it isn't ethical or constitutional.

The pope said that "decriminalizing abortion is a betrayal to democracy,. . ."

Sigh - - - so many ignorant multitudes in our populations actually believe that the Pope (a mere man, and very ignorant of Biology, to boot) is infallible and actually speaks for God.

Sigh - we can put a man on the Moon, but we are still STUCK with prehistoric levels of PURE SUPERSTITION.
Madness!

Do you really think god cares who the next mayor is or which side wins a war? If you do, then you have a very petty image of god and need to rethink your values and spiritualism.

That's why politics shouldn't involve religion; it pollutes and corrupts religion, religious people, and religious leaders.

Voting is neither a spiritual or moral duty. It is a civic duty. Both spiritually and morally, a person may have objections to voting, seeing other ways of living the spiritual or moral life as more meaningful and important. The may even refrain from voting as an expression of that life - perhaps, for instance, believing that voting gives power to a state system that is, at heart, immoral. Voting is a civic duty - one that expresses a person's felt duty toward participation in a democratic system of government. In other forms of government, there would be no sense of a duty to vote, since there would be no vote. There, one's civic duty would be expressed differently. So the question asked is a false one - there is neither a spiritual or ethical duty to vote; the duty is a civic one, and the church is treading on thin ice here.

When will people understand that the Catholic Church needs to keep its rather large well financed bureaucratic nose out of politics. "Cardinal" Burke is a right wing whacko who is a cardinal merely because he falls in line with Rome. Ignore them all and it will be better for each of us.

" If the Constitution requires that religion be left out of the affairs of the state"

It doesn't. The state is not allowed to establish a state religion, and it is not allowed to prohibit the free exercise of religion. It does not require that religion be left out of the affairs, as long as that religion is not being instituted as the state religion.

It's not a moral or civic duty...it's a choice...we are free to vote or not vote...there is no duty involved at all.

no - it's a CIVIC duty. Jeeze....

The Catholic Church is a Communist-style institution.