Catholic priest and Fox News contributor Father Jonathan Morris argued over the weekend that atheists were not suitable candidates for president because it was “hard to trust” someone who did not believe that God would punish them.
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According to Morris, anything that did not “inform” a public official’s life was not faith “because faith is a set of beliefs.”
“It’s a belief in God, it’s a belief that there are eternal consequences for your actions,” he explained. “And I think that a leader that doesn’t have that — a set of core beliefs that help him to make justice an important part of his life and his decisions because he knows that there are eternal consequences, well, it’s somebody that it’s hard to trust.”
I hate that some people are so blinded by religion that anyone that doesn't follow it's rules or believe in it are amoral sociopaths who need fixing to them. BYE.
If anything, I find us more trustworthy. I don't need the fear of punishment to be a moral person. In fact, I find it scary that a lot of people do. What are they capable of without their fear of God?
If anything, I find us more trustworthy. I don't need the fear of punishment to be a moral person. In fact, I find it scary that a lot of people do. What are they capable of without their fear of God?
Exactly. They're being "good" people because of fear and not because of any genuine satisfaction in loving their equals and protecting nature. It's like being a good person is filling a quota to some religious people.
They're being "good" people because of fear and not because of any genuine satisfaction in loving their equals and protecting nature. It's like being a good person is filling a quota to some religious people. 
