Isn't that an Oprah thing?

Hey! I wasn't invited in to the Secret Society. I guess I've been snubbed again.

Interesting question. Actually, if someone was a declared atheist, probably not. But that's because I've known too many proselytizing atheists who push their religion of non-religion on people. In other words, even atheism has its orthodox practitioners.

Now, would I vote for someone who didn't declare a particular preference for any specific set of beliefs but claimed they were at least spiritual, or who owned up to being a very casual practitioner of whatever their religion was? Hell yeah.

edit: how the hell did I end up putting a flamingo in this post? Bizarre. But cool. I think I'll leave it.

Secrecy in religion bothers me because I'm not sure you can declare that you believe in a particular religion when you haven't been told what you believe in.

Secretive organizations, on the other hand, are just cliques with a little costume drama. Joining a secretive organization is a bit different from declaring you believe in things you don't even know about.

Um...I'm not talking about the practitioners not knowing what there involved in but them not being willing to tell people not yet within the circle. Romney knows everything he needs to know about Mormonism; the question is whether he is open with other people about what those things are.

I'm not sure how being a half-hearted religious person is an improvement. I have more respect for people who realizing what they believe commit themselves to it wholeheartedly. I just thing they're wrong.

I'd vote for an atheist over a religious person if their qualities were the same. I don't vote down party lines and don't plan to start anytime soon.

Not quite what I was getting at. By the time people get to the inner circle, they've long since committed themselves to believing what they're told. And I wasn't really relating that to Romney in any way.
Not so much half-hearted as disconnected from dogma or perhaps willing to follow their heart when it differs from the religion they otherwise consider themselves as believing in.

Yes, but that is what I was talking about and you stated your post as a response to my question. So I figured I'd clarify.

I know this is obnoxious, but I just had to quote this in honor of yet another genius gone too soon. Loved Richard Jeni. Platypus Man will always be one of my favorite comedy features ever.

Apparently, candidates who are going to talk about religion, talk about it close to primaries. This is because those who show up to vote in primaries skew toward believers and even more than that, toward church-goers.