[selzer]

I think it is easy for people to give up talking politics, because politics may be affecting their lives and maybe a big part of their lives, may even be part of their identity, they do not worship politicians or politcs and do not have it in grained in themselves from early on, that the party is more important than they are themselves.

i think in the past people would say God and then country were first, but nowadays we are lucky if people put God first even if they do believe in him. So while some people keep God in his place, between 8 and noon on sunday morning, or in its proper place on saturday afternoon or evening. Others see God in the place where many of us have our dogs.

No, I am picking on myself here too. Some people consider God when the change their address, their job, their vehicle, their budget, their time constraints. And we here more likely consider our dogs in this place. I certainly have. If God told me to go out tomorrow and kill all of my dogs, I would see a psychiatrist and get on meds. Not that I do not believe that God speaks to people these days, but I think that God is far more likely to speak to us when we have dog food in our car and see a homeless man and his dog than to tell us to destroy what we love to prove our loyalty to Him.

But when we identify ourselves, we identify ourselves as Christian, Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Athiest, Agnostic, and the list goes on, much more readily than republican, democrat, independent, libertarian, communist, socialist, etc.

I think for me I am a Chrisitian first, then a dog person, then a protestant, then an American, then an electrical engineer, then a German, English, Hungarian, then a republican. I think some people may have their politics right up there with their being a dog person. For these people, it is much harder not to discuss it.

But for others, who see God in everything that happens, it is also unnatural for them to never mention it on the site.

I think that if we are all suing for tolerance, we should be tolerant of religion in whatever shape and form it comes in. Otherwise, some very nice individuals might be lost to us. I do not think that banning religious posts will make us more tolerant or make there be less fighting and arguing amongst individuals.