The God-o-Meter
Time and Beliefnet bring you this election’s journalistic innovation: The God-o-Meter.
The God-o-Meter provides consistantly updated tracking information on where the candidates stand with respect to god on a scale of one to ten (one being an ungodly, sodomite heathen and ten being Mother Theresa). The scale currently runs from Barack Obama at a beatific nine to Rudy Giuliani at a lowly two. He must be desecrating crosses before debates or something.
It’s interesting to see a Republican at the lowest point of the spectrum and a Democrat at the highest. That goes against expectations, which I always appreciate.
The election is currently missing any candidate willing to hang out at the ‘one’ end of the spectrum. This election needs more Bloomberg.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
So pointless. Either they’re being measured against their own professed faiths, in which case comparing them is not fair, or they’re being measured against some (other) arbitrary standard of godliness. I bet it gets hits, though.
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
hey doorframe, remember that awesome episode of “the west wing,” when alan alda tells the press “you people are idiots, most of these candidates are lying to you when they talk about god, so stop fucking asking me about it” and shit?
alan alda for president!
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
i also love it when the defense of the supposed importance of a candidate’s religious belief consists of an argument about how “95% of american citizens believe in god, so a religious person should represent us as president.”
well, huge portions of the american population like a lot of dumb shit. i’d prefer a president who DOESN’T think “jack bauer” is a real person.
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
ps alan alda for president!!
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