11/28/07 Republican Debate-The Bible

[montenegrin2010]

Romney is hilarious!

[bluesykeys7]

...because Christianity is not based off of what people do, its about what Jesus did. and of course humans have been corrupting it ever since.

[bluesykeys7]

alrighty, just want to add in there that people should not discuss things they are ignorant of. Most likely, if you oppose the Bible, then all you are basing your opinion off is something you've heard another uninformed person say. also, everything in the Bible is not literal, because everything in the world is not literal. Anyway, it is not for you to condemn people who are Christians, and it is not up to you to condemn Christianity based on people's actions....

[OnlyTheWeakNeedHelp]

@bluesykeys7

or...My beliefs on the bible are based off of the bibles, and every other religions, lack of proof. I will "condem" all those who throw away their rational mind for faith. If you choose to believe in something for no reason, you are irrational, you are crazy, and you should be locked away from the rest of society

[Tzimnewman3]

If you beleive the Bibile is the word of God then stoning people to death and selling your children as slaves is acceptable as it tells us in the Bible. Also, if you beleive in the Bibile being the word of God then you must never eat let alone touch pork since it is a sin in the Bible to do either of this.

[bc39foot]

Wow...I wonder how many more centuries, decades, years we will let the bible be a teaching tool of human life. Don't people realize oppressors wrote the bible????? Yeah some of the stuff is true, in an allegorical meaning, but it was used as a control mechanism.

[coldman0727]

Huckabee owned this question. I hope McCain goes with Romney as his VP though. If he gets Huckabee, I'm voting Obama.

[LardMonkey6]

I agree with Mike Huckabee!!

[kmcl11]

I am surprised grwon men...DO NOT knwo the bible. The bible is full of nonsense that we do not follow today. I wonder what the other men said. Who believes jonah was literlly in a fish, that LOts wife turned to a pillar of salt, or that we should stone homosexuals, etc

[Chachalacamayor]

I also think that bible is a great source of morals and dignity. I see great wisdom in Moises and the massacre he held against medianites for worshiping a false icon. Josue is a great moralist too, and he proved it slaughtering man, woman and children in the battle of Jericho. I always admired Abrahm, and his determination to sacrifice his own children to satisfy a very kind god.

[Chachalacamayor]

Yes I do, I believe in giants and unicorns. I believe in a geocentric model of the universe. I also think in the world was created in 7 days approximately 6000 years ago. The carbon 14, and electromagnetic radiation was put by god to prove our faith.

[gb10100]

dude.. stfu

[Anatolia90105]

It is Al Gore what?

[12patriot12]

This question was a waste of time. Shame on CNN. What is relevent right now is the word of the people, The Constitution. A more important question, especially now, is "How do you feel about The Constitution?" The Constitution gives us freedom of religion. To worship one God, many Gods, or no god at all. Some of us are Christians, some of us are Jews, some of us are secular, and so forth. But, we are ALL Americans.

[ArchMageZeratuL]

No, that question was very important. If you believe the Bible to be LITERALLY true, then you are a menace to society and should not be given any position of power.

[12patriot12]

Excellent point! Hear! Hear!

[greg14105]

Take good look at that Bible. It doesn't look too "dog-eared" like the ones I've seen from people that read it a lot.

[Madaxxeman]

if they only knew the truth. check out: ze it geis tmo vie. c om

don't forget to close the spaces. :)

[djc854]

The correct response is, "that's a shameful question, unworthy of an American voter and inappropriate in a presidential debate."

[facelesscoward]

Why? Most voters are looking for someone whose world view most closely lines up with theirs and religious beliefs make up a large part of a person's world view. That's why we won't see an openly atheist president for a while.

[Bagobie]

Are OneGuilt and texacution the only people with brains that have commented on this video? ...This kind of question is something you will ONLY find in a republican debate.

Being independent myself, I believe the only descent republican candidate out there is Ron Paul.

Google him; you might be surprised.

[boris1010]

Well not that it matters to much to me, then to you guys cuz I'm Canadian, but I like to watch anyways to see whats going on. Guiliani's answer was great it had a modern sense of things and was close to huckabee's in many ways, the use of the word aligorical was perfect and helped explain things towards the question but huckabee's answer was the best mainly cuz he knows what hes talking about on that topic

[tvcrazyman]

I'm not sure the question was fair, but I think Huckabee answered it to perfection. Really believing what you say, makes all the difference in the world. Guiliani's answer was terrible.

[CozyPaddedCell]

Might very well just be wifhful thinking, but it seems to me that Giuliani might just be fakin' it. It's appalling that in 2007 someone has to at least pretend they believe in the preposterous to have a chance to be elected.

[midnightracoon]

But Huckabee was a preacher.

DUH.

of course he's gonna be "Yeah Jesus Rocks!"

[jetking88]

The question, although ridiculous was fairly fair. He did use a KJV which is the Bible that Mormons use. As a Bible college student, I was surprised with the strength of Huckabee's answer. It seems that we want our candidates to be religious, but we don't want them to ACTUALLY believe in it. we'll only elect hypocrites.

[lkmsax]

moat anyone that is familar with the LDS religion would realize that the question was directed specifically at Romney. it was pretty well disguised, and I think that Romney was probably the only one on stage that knew what it was about, but I also thought that he did a pretty good job at answering it. whether or not the people choosing the question knew what the intent was, is a diffent issue altogether.

[basterdpeople]

hahahyayaya its all a pissing contest like who can be the biggest, most mindless slave to the words that fell out of the mouth of god himself and landed on the page, untouched, unedited since 1000 b.c. (the year the earth was created) LOL

what absolute crap. being a republican must be so hard.

[AlchemistTraveler]

Hillarious!

Romney cracks me up. He's a scared little boy up there.

[ByrdieFae]

...LOL.

Were...were they trying to one-up one another? I think so.

[rapportski]

OneGuilt...you're a fool. There is no such thing as separation of church as state. Read a little.

[texecution]

"Separation of church and state is a political and legal idea usually identified with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... The phrase building a wall of separation between church and state was written by Thomas Jefferson in a January 1, 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association."

Use the internet a little.

[OneGuilt]

Wow... why is religion always finding its way into the government when there is SUPPOSED to be a separation of Church and State? Honestly, whether or not a candidate believes in the Bible matters very little to me, and I'm an atheist. I just want my president to be good at his JOB!

[MrTitiez]

@OneGuilt Some religious people believe a religious politician is more trustworthy, because they have strong morals that they live by.

[ZenShroud1]

@MrTitiez Sad but true.