I'm late to this party, but the arresting statement in Mitt's religion speech was this:
"Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone," the GOP contender said.
Doesn't seem like much of a leap from that statement to assert that the non-religious don't deserve freedom.
Scary.
And the statement itself flies in the face of religious history...didn't Christianity itself get started and prosper under the yoke of Roman tyranny? Hasn't Christianity itself been the catalyst of crushing oppression? Seems to me that religion has often been the enemy of freedom.
Ryan Sager's thoughts.
