She asked if they "believed in God." What does that have to do with qualification for presidency? If they had said they were atheists she obviously wouldn't vote for them because her shallow priority was based on religion. As it turned out the candidates indicated they believed in a deity.
What a person has within his heart and soul regarding faith is a personal issue. It's about choice that is free to everyone in a true democracy. What other people believe is none of their busybody business. Besides, how does another person's faith harm the questioner?
Many conditioned, programmed Americans still think blatantly you must be "god fearing." But persuasions are not values. Besides many people are hypocrites and lie about their religion to get parental, social and political approval. It's especially in European DNA due to the vicious religious Inquisition of the Roman Empire when people were killed and tortured if they didn't believe in a god. It's latent fear still gripping humanity.
What good god would want his creations to fear him? A good god is loving and not fear mongering. And besides, what ever happened to the multitude of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses? Did they die, or was it because the primitive people died? Has money taken their place as a bottom line in buying political religious votes? Besides, scientists now know how humanity has evolved.
Helene, World Enlightened News WEN
