n_huffhines
What's it gonna cost?
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I would rather the opposite. Someone 2ho chooses to be a devout Christian without subscribing to the day/age theory or the gap theory is likely to have the morals necessary to be a good leader. You can't be a bible thumper and a pathological liar like 99 percent of politicians are. I can't imagine a scenario where a presidents belief in what age the earth is would have any bearing whatsoever on a policy decision or any kind of national security. So I don't see where there could possibly be a downside. You have a leader with great morals and integrity and no negative consequences to their interpretation of the bible. I can see the atheists asinine argument would be that his belief would mean that he denies science or is easily fooled. Radioactive carbon dating is not all of science. Nobody alive today was alive at creation...and records don't go back that far either. So it takes faith to try and date the earth or universe regardless of what one believes. Either you believe in the accuracy of a very narrow portion of science, which often is very erratic and undependable (2 sample of the same piece of limestone can give dates millions of years apart) or you believe in a literal interpretation of the dates and lifespans of 5he bible. Both beliefs take faith. One takes faith on man, the other in God. I've seen far too much of the ignorance and outright stupidity of man to put 100 percent of my faith in anything man does. I don't know how old the earth is bit I know that believing it is 6000 years old does not make one a moron.
Personal morality has almost nothing to do with being a good POTUS.