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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jdg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Does it take one to know one?  You set off my non-believerdar when you first drew Phil from Heck (and yes, I am an atheist).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingdinosaur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think they both might have a belief in the supernatural, but I can't be sure it's their primary religion.    IMO I think at least one of them puts politics in front of religion in terms of what set of beliefs he acts on.  Therefor, at least for one of them, politics his is primary religion and not the supernatural.  

To paraphrase what Chesterson said, if you get rid of the Big God, you'll end up getting lots of little gods.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from choefel]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I almost forget. Didn't the 'decider' say we went into Iraq because his heavenly father told him to?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from choefel]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stui, have you forgotten about the born again tird that was at the helm for the first 8 years of the millenium? You can say he really doesn't believe, but he certainly exhibits the traits of the so-called on-fire christians I've come into contact with. After all, the hollow &quot;I'm gonna stab you in the back&quot; smile is pretty much standard fare with all of them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from leahxraexcar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[(non)Believerdar. What a wonderful concept.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rationale]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@delius1967

Itâ€™s reassuring that god thinks a few points on a scorecard will make up for all the war, famine plague and pestilence that we can see around the globe.
 
Maybe that's why we have the 1%, to balance out the vast numbers of nasty things. All in god's plan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Asking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Interesting concept. 

Gay people presumably have the most sensitive and best-calibrated &quot;gaydar&quot;, (everyone is attuned to the things that matter most to them and sexuality is a fundamantal part of most people's makeup). Similarly, I'm guessing that to have an effective non-believerdar, you'd need to either be a committed believer or someone with a deep-seated antipathy to religion.

Speaking as a non-believer who doesn't get very militant about it (unless provoked), I don't think I could do much better than chance at identifying non-believers in a controlled experiment. 

One other thought, though - if you want the idea to gain traction, you need to call it something snappier. Why not turn it around and come up with a hypothetical knack for spotting believers? You could call it &quot;Praydar&quot;.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ghosttie]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am concurrent - I concur.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from marcoklaue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, could you maybe get a &quot;Scott Adams for President&quot; website?  Or could one of your blog readers and supporters create one?  I wanna support your bid (I'm not American so I can't vote, but I can tell all my American friends to vote for you), but it's sort of tedious to find the relevant parts of your blog to link people to when they're wondering who this candidate is.  Just a single page should be enough, updated as you get new ideas or review old ones.  And maybe links to the blog entries that are relevant to your presidential bid.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Raskolnikov]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[He's lucky he wasn't reared by the Catholics]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Phantom II]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sounds like projection to me.  You're an atheist, so you see atheists wherever you turn.  

As far as Obama goes, I have no idea what, if any, religion he believes in.  He was first reared as a Muslim, and then further reared by his maternal grandmother, who was a Christian.  Then he went through a latent period until he joined Rev. Wright's Black Liberation Theology church.  

Black Liberation Theology as practiced by Reverend Wright is a Marxist-based separatist activist organization. Many feel it fits nicely into President Obama's world view.  I disagree with others here who posted that then-community organizer Obama wasn't in the church very much; reports have said that he was there almost every Sunday, and he heard everything Rev. Wright had to say.  Whether he agreed with it or not is something we don't know for sure.

So rather than an atheist, it's likely that he is more of a deist or a theist. But again, it's difficult to know for sure what a man who, on the one hand, says the most beautiful sound in the world is the Muslim call to prayer, and on the other says that Reverend Wright led him to accept Jesus Christ as his savior.

As far as Newt Gingrich goes, I think you're flat-out wrong.  Speaker Gingrich converted to Catholicism in 2009. If he were faking it, as you believe, there are a lot of religions he could have chosen that are easier to become a part of.  Converting to the Catholic faith takes a lot of work and a lot of training.  As opposed to, say, Islam, which only takes the reciting of a single sentence to convert.  There is still prejudice against Catholics in politics, so he didn't help himself there, either.

So while God only knows what Obama's religious views are, I'm pretty sure that Newt really believes.  You'd better get the Klystron on your non-believerdar tweaked up.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In my experience, the majority of &quot;believers&quot; are faking it... Not that they are explicitly and intentionally lying, but I've met shockingly few Christians that know anything about their own religion, let alone what differentiates one from another.  If it's not a simplified variant of the  Christmas story or a dozen or so fun stories you'd hear as a child -- like Noah's Ark, The Garden of Eden, or Daniel and the Lion's Den -- the majority of Christians don't know anything about their religion.  I understand that Jews tend to know a bit more about their faith and Muslims tend to know less about theirs. But it would seem hard to defend the label &quot;believers&quot; when in reality they haven't bothered to so much as catalog the things they claim to support.

Reminds me of the congressmen backing the SOPA &amp; PIPA legislation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Raskolnikov]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our leaders' religious beliefs are not always benign.  George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bibleâ€™s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. 

Mormon men believe that if they are good, they'll each get their own planet to populate and rule over in the afterlife.  Scientologists believe that our ancestors arrived in spaceships from another planet.

Maybe it would be good to have a Mormon president just to shine a light on how ridiculous all religion is.  Or, it might be good for the NASA budget, anyway.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mazarlarry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I agree with the generalization about Presidents and believers, with Bush W being the exception.  I don't doubt his belief in divine guidance, but I doubt he got the message right.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Dalebert7]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I agree with byzcath that politics is way too dirty for any true Christian. Especially at the presidential level. You might get elected dogcatcher by turning the other cheek - if no one was running against you.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DNA]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

I wonder if the voters in US are given an opportunity to compare the contestant's ability to be a world leader. Specially given the curious fact that a substantial chunk of the US treasury is owned by non-americans.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was reading up on Obama's &quot;community organizer&quot; experience, since that phrase doesn't mean anything to me.  One interesting bit from those stories was that Obama was initially really ineffective because he didn't go to church.  He avoided participating in a religion for a long time before realizing that he had to belong to a church in order to work with the pastors who were an important force in community organization.  I always thought it was weird that he didn't seem to know anything about Wright's sermons when it came to light how anti-American and racist the reverend was, but now it makes more sense.  In my mind, there's nothing wrong with making lifestyle changes that are necessary for your career/goals.

Sadly, I agree about Gingrich and raise you:  He seems like a sociopath to me.  I hope he doesn't win the Republican nomination.  I'm pretty conservative and I've never voted for a Democrat, but I'd vote Barack over Newt without much further thought.  Obama seems to be a pretty good guy, and Gingrich does not.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mhoff1387]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm glad I wasn't alone in pegging Obama as an atheist (or at the very least a diest), even as the media was having a field day over his Christian/Muslim upbringing.  In fact, I'm betting that the vast majority of congress is at most diest, and either claim to be Christian out of ignorance of their own beliefs, or political expedience.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rbgos]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Funny how this is very different in the UK.  While Tony Blair was PM, he was &quot;nominally&quot; a Christian, but kept God well out of his politics; it was only after he left office that he &quot;came out&quot; as a fully-fledged bible-thumper.  He knew we didn't want a bible-thumper running the country.

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat leader, and deputy PM in the current coalition government) is a declared atheist.  No-one in this country gives a stuff.

Although, I must admit, if someone was some religion other than Christian or Atheist, that might affect their vote-ability.  There must be a few Muslims in parliament by now, but none is going to make it to PM any decade soon.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from bolikana]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If the politicians in the U.S. don't differ from those here in Germay they would do everything for getting elected.  Remember the politician is the only species which can be pro and con at the same time regardless of the subject as long as it gets him some more votes. So its very likely you detect a politician by what my be called  the politiciandar.
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