Perry Chase didn’t say anything about Republicans or Democrats. He said, “there are plenty of “fruits and nuts” in the holier-than-thou crowd.”
“Arnold sure ain’t a big churchgoing guy, or else he’d be against abortion and embryonic stem cell research.”
Answer me this, jg,
Why are churchgoers against embryonic stem cell research? You’re preventing embryos that are going to be discarded from being used to save human lives.
Also, you use the word “churchgoer” as though it means that one is supportive of god’s word. Surely you know that a mere profession of faith and goodness means nothing. Surely you know that there are millions of churchgoing, bible-thumping, holier-than-thou types who don’t even try to follow god’s word. I’m going to give you credit enough to assume that you know these things. So, maybe I’ve misunderstood what you’re saying. When you say, “Arnold sure ain’t a big churchgoing guy, or else he’d be against abortion and embryonic stem cell research,” do you mean to imply that if he were a big churchgoing guy that necessarily he’d do his best to live by god’s word and therefore be against those things? Or do you mean something else?
It’s been my experience that the sooner after I meet someone they profess their religious conviction, the more likely it is that they are bereft of moral charachter. I understand that plenty of churchgoers aren’t like that. But just being a bible-thumper isn’t any indication that a person is “good.” In fact, if I had a choice of leaving my daughter in the hands of a church full of people or an atheist club full of people, I’d pick the latter.