America only highly developed nation that thinks belief in God is essential for morality.

Courtesy of The New Civil Rights Movement:  

America is the only highly developed country where a majority of citizens think you have to believe in God in order to live a moral life. 

Here’s a portion of the international breakdown in response to the question, “is belief in God essential to morality?” 

China: 14% 
France: 15% 
Spain: 19% 
Australia: 23% 
Britain: 20% 
Italy: 27% 
Canada: 31% 
Germany 33% 
Israel: 37% 
Japan: 42% 
America: 53%

As many of you know the name of this blog is essentially to spit in the eye of those who claim that only those who embrace a certain religious belief are capable of being moral people.

It has always been my position that Steven Weinberg was right when he said:

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” 

Besides it is incredibly arrogant to suggest that any one group have the market cornered on morality, and in fact morality itself is a rather mercurial concept, that shifts and changes based on circumstances and needs.

Are Christians. Jews, or Muslims willing to say that they are the moral superior to the Hindus? The Buddhists? The Sikhs? The Jains?

What incredible egos it must take to believe that out of all of the thousands of religions and gods that mankind has worshiped throughout our history that you have figured out the one true religion, and the one true God.

And how convenient that it is, more than likely, the most readily accessible religion for you to access in your community.

In so many ways our country is a shining example of progress, tolerance, and acceptance. But in other ways it is anything but.

Remember that debate that Mitt Romney "won?" Well apparently he also started another international incident as well.

"Let us sing the Spanish anthem together.Ay, ay, ay, ay! oh, I am dee Frito Bandito"

Courtesy of Fox News Latino:

It has become apparent to some that Mitt Romney is in need of a crash course in Diplomacy 101. 

He irritated Britons and Palestinians during a summer tour abroad and has declared Russia to be America's No. 1 geopolitical foe. Just last week, the Republican candidate, who plans a foreign policy speech Monday, raised eyebrows in Spain by holding it up as a prime example of government spending run amok. 

That left Spaniards confused, and threatened to reinforce Romney's perceived handicap in international affairs, precisely at a time when lingering questions over the Sept. 11 attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has President Barack Obama on the defensive. 

"I don't want to go down the path of Spain," Romney said Wednesday night during the first presidential debate. He argued that government spending under Obama has reached 42 percent of the U.S. economy, a figure comparable with America's NATO ally. "I want to go down the path of growth that puts Americans to work." 

The remark was Romney's latest to cause international offense during a campaign that much of the world is closely monitoring. 

No one contests that Spain's situation is dire, its economy in deep recession and unemployment hovering around 25 percent. But Spain's level of government spending is actually low by European standards, and significantly less than Germany and Scandinavian countries with far healthier economic prospects. Spain's woes were chiefly caused by the collapse of a property bubble that had fueled more than a decade of booming economic growth. 

Spanish reaction to Romney was swift. 

"What I see is ignorance of what is reality, but especially of the potential of the Spanish economy," said Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. 

Maria Dolores Cospedal, leader of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party, noted that "Spain is not on fire from all sides like some on the outside have suggested." Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo called it "very unfortunate that other countries should be put up as examples" when the facts are skewed. 

And THIS guy wants to run our country?

By his second day in office America would be in a World War with everybody except possibly the Cayman islands, and only because Mitt would not want to risk blowing up his own money. 

Did anybody else notice that this was reported by the Latin arm of Fox News?

Kind of hard to embrace the old Fox News talking points when this Americano is pissing all over your country, isn't it amigos?