A reminder about what Ron Paul has said about religion:
The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance.
It’s all a big fucking mess. Two untenable ideas going at it – fundamentalist free marketers vs. fundamentalist Christians, both with corrupt interpretations [...]

“If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony, and justice, among men.”
Who’s the deluded hippie? Peaceful cooperation and harmony=BP, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, etc. etc. This philosophy makes no sense at all – and there is experiential evidence [...]

A very interesting piece talking about how religion and Ayn Randism are totally at odds with each other. A variant on What’s the Matter with Kansas – or why does the Republican base vote against its own self-interest?
America’s working people are in desperate need of health, education and welfare, but they are also mostly [...]