Is there anyone out there who thinks that the Democrats left God out of their party’s platform by accident? Can you really think that it was essentially a typo?
Well, Jacques Berlinerblau, an associate professor and director of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, whose next book “How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom” will be released this month is saying that the Democratic Party’s removal of any mention of God “was an accident.”
In 2000, God was mentioned four times in the party’s platform. In 2004, God was mentioned seven times. And in 2008, God was mentioned once, according to Fox News. Now He’s gone. All gone.
In a piece for On Faith, called “The ‘Godless’ Democrats: Again?” Berlinerblau writes:
This raises a key question: How did those who drafted the platform make an error that hands back to the Republicans–if only for a nanosecond–the stick they had used to beat the Democrats senseless for a good 30 years?…
The point is this: as much some atheists, separationists and conservative Christians would like it to be so, the absence of a divine reference in the party platform was an accident—an error that masks the Democrats often troubling turn to faith-based politics and pandering.
Berlinerblau said that the Democrats made sure that they wouldn’t be vulnerable to charges of godlessness because there were many mentions of God during the first night of the convention.
Yeah, that changes everything. Nobody will even think about it anymore.
And if you can believe that I guess you can believe that Georgetown removed the cross when Obama spoke there by accident as well. Just a big misunderstanding.
September 5, 2012 at 10:06 pm
What's really scary is that I heard that Gov. O'Malley of my (communist) state of MD is a front runner for US president in a few years (heard on PJTV Trifecta today). He's the Baltimore mayor who started the "Believe" campaign. As one can imagine, "God" was not implied.
September 6, 2012 at 6:04 am
"Yeah, that changes everything. Nobody will even think about it any more."
I know you're being sarcastic, but there is actually quite a bit of truth to that statement. People won't think about it any more if it doesn't fit with their projections of the Democratic party. People who have always voted Democrat will continue to do so no matter how far out of step the party moves away from their personal beliefs. And they will find instances, like someone mentioning God once in a speech, to justify sticking with a party even if that party no longer reflects their views.
Unfortunately, too many people would rather "go down with the ship" rather than admit that voting for Obama and people like him was a bad, misguided, and naive idea.
September 6, 2012 at 4:09 pm
"an error that masks the Democrats often troubling turn to faith-based politics and pandering." "…faith based politics and pandering" The Declaration of Independence and our U.S. Constitution are faith-based politics. This individual teaches? at Georgetown?…pandering to the devil?
Establishing Satanism prohibits the free exercise and is contrary to religious freedom, to speaking and writing about God, to peaceably assemble with God and to exercise individual expressions of God. Satan is not so stupid as to deny the existence of God, since Satan's very existence depends upon God…not so with Berlinerblau.