Sir;.... The war with terror as it is presented to us is a small thing, and a contrived war of choice... The war against capital; the insidious war against the destruction liberty by wealth is life long and never ending.... The war against ignorance, the tendency of people under stress to withdraw into magic and religion, and to submit their rational discretion to the influence of earthly authority acting for religion -is limiting to human progress; and it results in terror... People in every generation, if they will be free, and have freedom to hand to their children, must throw off the authority vested in simple humans beings acting in the name of God and fate and faith; and take matters into their own hands and decide for themselves what is moral in light of what is healthy.... This country began with a relegation of religion to the outside of government, and those people so little versed in science and reason managed better to do what is right than we do today... If it is normal for people hard pressed to burrow into the folds of religion and to hide between the pages of the Bible, it is all the more certain that government should deliver justice to people in their society and in their economy... The failure of government is the success of religion... The weakness of government is the strength of religion, and with religion comes murder, violence and terror for an ungodly -godly cause.... The danger of terror is real... The cause of terror is not beyond our control, and it does not wait on some foreign shore, or come in with the tide... Terror begets terror... Faith breeds fear... Faith answers fear with fear... If you say terrorism is the reason to vote for Mr. Mccain; my answer is that organized religion everywhere is terror, and has always ruled with terror and rules still in every small town in America with terror... A vote for Mr. Mccain is a vote for terror... It is a vote for more of the condition that brings forth terror because what he represents, what those who support him represent -is a reliance of government upon faith instead of science, and a rejection of reason in the conduct of our affairs... Look at your country, man.... Was the South of Slavery, and the South of the Klan NOT hand in glove with organized religion??? Even Stonewall Jackson suffered attack for teaching slaves to read the bible... Religion was not for them; but against them. It was not for their freedom, but against their freedom, and when Jackson had to choose a society he chose one that denied to slave human beings both their access to God and to their liberty. But was it not the truth, that each side had its religous justification for burning this country up in Civil War???.. We are a house divided, and the hate inspired and given voice by religion mocks the suffering of billions around the world on a cross of capital. Religion is going to run this country or destroy it. . Religion justifies your war and your terror... I do not vote for an agent of that destruction... I vote for liberty, justice, equality, and democracy...Thanks...Sweeney

The best reason to vote for McCain: He isn't 0bama.
And as for Mr. Sweeney, apparently when he was baptized, they held him underwater a bit too long, accounting for his phobia against religion.
As for slavery, it was the religious convictions of the abolitionists that drove them to fight against the institution of slavery. No one is forcing you to be religious (not in this country, anyway, although I can't say this about the home countries of the people you don't believe to be terrorists), but don't try to force people NOT to be religious, either.

Nick in Virginian; Sir;... You are not disagreeing with me to say the abolitionist fought on religious grounds... Who can say that violence was not necessary, but it should not have been justified by the preaching of Christ... But Christians and christianity are very flexible on the issue of violence, and as the Crusades shows, they could absolve people of sins in advance of their crimes if it suited them... Islam is a martial religion... Violence is an accepted tenent of their religion. To accept struggle and if need be, violence is hot hypocritical for them as it is for us... So; why can't we leave them to be in their own land??? Well; we happen to want their property at the price we are willing to pay... How dare they resist us... Even Mr. Obama is wrong to say we should charge them for their rebuilding and for the military presence out of their own oil revenue... Really; Come and break my house and camp on my front lawn, and send me a bill for the damage you do, and see how I take it... We have little in common with the Muslims... They are more like the Society of Jesus, or the Dominicans in that they all take their religion very seriously... We don't... Not only do we beat up on the people of God, Islam, but we persist in trying to pervert their religion by broadcasting immoral sexual trash into their western t.v.s; and we challenge them with our own behavior, which puts every material good between us and our God... I'll be the first to admit I am a lousy Christian, but if the issue were slavery, or Islam, I hope to tell you I would not have to be a Christian to act as a Christian and prize a live enemy more than a dead friend... I don't care for the religious right, and the way they use rights like the freedom of speech to attack all rights, and all the time evade taxes while pushing a political agenda... And I would not trust my life with them, nor yours... They do not seem to grasp reality, that violence is wrong, that inciting to violence is wrong, even against Islam; but, that worst of all, is their perversion of our democracy, which is our only method of resolving differences -short of violence... I think they want to hijack the political process in order to hurry their enemies to their judgement; and I want to see it used to communicate, that is, to tell the truth to the people so the people can decide.... That free dicision, is something religions forbid there members, and want to deny to the nation, and even to the world... I'm religious... I study the Bible, and all matter on religion...The immorality I eschew, I eschew freely... But religion is only a form of relationship... Just like the nation is a relationship, and humanity is a relationship... And it is a lousy relationship when one side dictates to the other, or threatens violence, or stuffs up everyones mouth with nonsense... So, let me apologize in advance of any pain you might suffer from my words... We all have to learn to talk... We have to quit turning the government to crap in the process of trying to capture it, and use it against our fellows... And we have got to quit using our religion to justify injustice... Let us all keep our enemies alive, and bore them to death, if killing them with kindness is out of the question... Thanks...Sweeney