Godless

More fallout from Mitt Romney's big speech:

A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers…

I imagine the campaign would have a problem here, given that Romney flatly asserted that "freedom requires religion", whatever that means. I realize that Mitt's not campaigning for my vote, but is it too much to ask that a GOP presidential front-runner not go out of his way to insult other people's theology while defending his own? Apparently so.

Personally, I could care less about Romney's specific religious beliefs, and it scares me that a large enough contingent of Republicans apparently care a whole lot and think that where you believe Jesus will show up next is an important consideration for civil government. What also scares me is that, religion aside, he seems to have very few strongly held beliefs, and the ones that he does hold (e.g. torture is a good thing and we should do more of it) are repugnant.