"Book links Obama to massacre of Christians"

M Goddard....I'll say off the top that I'm an independent and am not particularly enthusiastic about either candidate...

With respect, if you are to receive any respect for your comments and criticisms, you really need to consider the CONTEXT and INTENTION of remarks/events you are referencing lest you be interpreted as a raving lunatic.

To suggest that Barack said the US is no longer a Christian nation is ludicrous. Barack has only ever said that he believes in the value of separating church and state - this is not a radical idea, it is built into the very foundational ideology of the United States, so for you to insinuate that he is somehow unpatriotic, or unChristian is reprehensible.

Let me also remind you that, for all intents and purposes, Obama IS black - he is not lying when he says this, he is not trying to obscure the well known fact that his mother is white, he is merely reflecting how growing up in American Society has led him to identify himself. The fact that he has a white mother is trivial - it does not change the fact that, for his whole life, he has probably been referred to and treated as Black, and lets be honest, if you didn't know he had a white mother, any educated person could easily mistake him as Black. Do not forget that American classification of race is deeply rooted in the slavery era assertion that only "one drop of negro blood" makes you black. He is not a liar when it comes to his race, merely a reflection of his society.

Your comment about not wanting to wear muslim garb is insulting, inflammatory, and completely unsubstantiated. Period. Unless you can provide any compelling evidence to back this up, you should be ashamed of yourself.

If this is so much like Nazi Germany, and Obama is so much like Hitler in trying to convince millions to believe horrible things, then tell me, what exactly is so horrible about Obamas remarks? You may not agree with his policy, and that is completely within your rights...but to somehow suggest that Obama's rhetoric is on par with a psychopath calling for the mass extermination of Jews? once again, without providing any proof for this allusion, you should be very, very ashamed of yourself.

As a U.S. citizen, you are entitled to your voice, but you should also respect the voices of others and if you are to criticize them, you should do so in a reasonable manner. Instead, you engage in a baseless witchhunt by villifying the person with whom you disagree without any substantial evidence - now that sounds an awful lot like nazi germany.

Wait a minute, folks.

Christianity has been almost obliterated in Iraq since the US interventions, 1991 and 2003, McCain supported. Isn't McCain complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians (and greater numbers of Shia and Sunni)?

About the only way Beliefnet could be fair and balanced on McCain and Obama would be to run the references to a McCain-like figure's cannibalism in his North Vietnamese cell on the NBC drama Medium with the same size headlines as those here--or maybe to delete about 10 of your last posts. This site isn't a discussion of belief. It's an arm of the Republican party.