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The frequent references to their personal faith as a rationale for public policy by all of the Democratic candidates this year is straight out of a playbook by political consultants who, for the past four years, have repeatedly told Democrats that they must make every effort to take back the pious religious high ground from Republicans.
The idea that doubt only serves to strengthen faith--and that the true value of doubt lies in its ability to strengthen faith--is the specious argument advanced by every Defender of the Faith whenever and wherever a child questions religion. I must have heard this hundreds of times from the nuns who taught me in parochial school.
Oh, for heaven's sake. This question irritates the...inferno out of me. Of all the pointless, utterly childish notions associated with traditional religion, belief in eternal bliss in heaven or eternal damnation in hell surely tops the list.
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