Sam KestenbaumVerified account

Guys, if you're short a few Progressive Christian feminist ladies, I've had some viral hits in that dept! HMU!

many, many people call on religion when it's convenient and disregard it when it's not

But that's not what that admission was about at all @skestenbaum @RichLowry @deanbaquet

I know, I'm more offering an explanation re religion in every day life

You don't know many religious people. Most are religious to the core—affects everything they do and that happens to them.

Most of the people I know are religious and are the reason I hold the opinions I do. Their behavior is inconsistent w/faith

I'm sorry to hear that, man. We're poor beggars trying to follow a better example. Forgive us.

Prime example - Pope Francis, I know many Catholics who dislike him because of his other worldly compassion. It's obscene.

The same people criticizing Francis are also running homeless shelters, hospitals, orphanages. Can't forget that.

I dont get religion either.

Sorta says it all.

Yeah, well....religion is difficult to understand

Atheism requires as much a leap of faith as does belief in God.

And....bullshit.

Always nice to encounter an open mind.

My mind is open. You can't possibly convince me that the absence of belief requires belief. It's nonsense.

Commitment to belief in the absence of God is a belief. It's not that hard.

@mattdpearce @deanbaquet is this a BAD thing? It's 2016, half of Americans don't identify with any particular religion.

so you want to completely misunderstand 165,000,000 people? And not care that you do?

I believe in separation of church and state. You see the incoming admin? Think they care?

I thought we were talking about the NYT. My apologies.

I thought so too. :/

we were :)

so now even "reporting" on religion is the same as Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,