GOP Candidates: Is every word of the Bible literal?

A CNN/Youtube questioner wants to know if the GOP candidates believe every single word of the King James Bible

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News & Politics

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• CNN
• presidential
• candidates
• debate
• religion
• politics
• bible
• Huckabee
• Romney
• Giuliani

[tattypatty]

Of course it fucking matters. You are lucky enough to be a citizen of one of the freest and most powerful countries in the world. And you have a book full of violence and slavery and myths. You actually have leaders believing that this shit it LITERALLY true. Do you want to live in a theocracy?

[tezkingkong]

Spoken like true politicians....Cowards...

[Petey0707]

@tattypatty Unfortunately, alot of people do.

[KJVWordofGod]

I know that guy in the video. He uses/used the name Calciumboy on YouTube.

[titykaka1]

@tattypatty lol america is not the most free nation in the world : no democracy, no freedom of speech and no free healthcare

YAY!

[Johnf85]

fuck this video

[cometrally]

Nice audio and video, dude. I enjoyed hearing every fourth word.

[globalchaos1984]

WTF SCRAMBLED VIDEO AND AUDIO

[fridrik777]

@bs17 If your interpretation (which is the "modern" interpretation) of the law is correct, then why was school prayer and even Christianity taught in schools up until the late 20th century? In fact, prayer in school was commonly practiced until 1960 when Madalyn Murray O'Hair used her young son to challenge it and won her case in Supreme Court. You should read her story in Wikipedia. She and her son were abducted and gruesomely killed by a fellow atheist in her employ at American Atheists.

[bs17]

@fridrik777 Exactly -- the Founders tied the hands of the government so that they could not impose any particular set of religious beliefs on the citizenry. Prayer in public schools is by definition a state endorsement of religion, and is particularly insidious in that it seeks to indoctrinate children in public schools with a particular set of religious beliefs, and is therefore irreconcilable with the first amendment.

[fridrik777]

@bs17 The Founders explicitly tied the hands of the government and not the hands of the church. They said, Congress shall not..." People greatly misunderstand and some even distort their intent. They were not looking at churches as the problem, but rather the historic meddling of government in the lives of its citizens and churches as the fundamental problem to avoid. The Founders did not abolish public prayer or religion in the schools - WE DID! The verse I gave shows 3 roles of our government.

[bs17]

@fridrik777 You quote a Bible verse about God being king and judge, and expect people to believe that has anything to do with a legislature, presidency, and judiciary branch? And you need to understand that the VERY FIRST SENTENCE of the Bill of Rights says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Many of the Founders may have been Protestants -- though Jefferson was certainly an agnostic, as was Franklin -- but they strictly separated religion and government.