Fox News contributor Rev. Jonathan Morris said on Sunday, during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” that an atheist President would be hard to trust because he doesn’t fear “eternal consequences.”
Morris’ comments were made during a conversation about the “Faith and Freedom Coalition” event, which was held in Iowa on Saturday and which featured several 2016 presidential candidates.
“Faith is a set of beliefs, right?” Morris said. “It’s a belief in God. It’s a belief that there are eternal consequences for your actions. And I think a leader that doesn’t have that — a set of core beliefs that help him to make justice an important part of his life and his decisions because he knows that there are eternal consequences, well, it’s somebody that it’s hard to trust.”
He said that in terms of faith, “if it doesn’t inform your life, then it’s not faith.”
Morris also stressed the importance of “not making stuff up in order to get votes.”
“One thing that is very certain, is you can’t fake religion,” Morris said. “Sometimes politicians fall into that, I think. What matters most, I think, to us Americans — those who will be voting — is what these guys said before they were running for President, the way in which they lived before they started running for President.”
“I think they have to be very clear about the values that they believe in, not making stuff up in order to get votes,” he continued. “And then people will say, ‘You know what, I like him even if I disagree with some of his beliefs, I like the fact ‘cause I can trust him to be who he says he is.’”
Fox News host Peter Johnson Jr. asked Morris whether voters should elect a President by judging people for their faith.
“For example, if someone running for President is an atheist,” Johnson said, “are they qualified to be the President?”
“You know, I would say faith is not the most important thing, but wisdom in terms of a leader,” Morris said. “But yes, I think it certainly makes a difference who that person is.”
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“It’s a belief in God. It’s a belief that there are eternal consequences for your actions.”
No, it’s a belief that John 3;16 is your Get Out Of Hell Free card, enabling you right wing freakazoids to kick poor and working people in the teeth, exploit others. ravage the planet, lie, cheat, and steal with absolutely no consequences for your actions, because your messiah died on the cross to wash your sins away. All you have to do is buy in to the story. It’s Cthulhu’s Wager, wearing sandals.
Do I have that wrong, preacher? I don’t think so.
I other words: “Anyone we cannot coerce with the threat of Excommunication (which works SO WELL in the Dark Ages) cannot be “trusted” to do exactly what we want done.”
You know, like the Opus Dei members on the Supreme Court.
Ah yes, that pesky “Reformation” and “Enlightenment” that we are still fighting against. Don’t they know we are GODS MESSENGERS and thus Infallible?
To which I say: “I will choose a path that’s clear. I will choose Free Will.”
Oh if only Hunter S Thompson was alive to give us Fear and Loathing on Fox News
Deal with the abuse scandal in your church and leave matters temporal to the experts.
Nice to see Fox move on from the standard fearmongering of Dems, Liberals, Feminists, Muslims, public school teachers, scientists, union members, immigrants, intellectuals, minorities, the ACLU, ACORN, vegans, environmentalists, PETA, community organizers, Hollywood and Gays. Atheists were starting to feel left out.