In God We Trust

May 09 2008

I’m watching an old episode of The West Wing (titled “In God We Trust”). The Republican candidate for president struggles with the role of religion in American politics as his faith gets called into question by the press. Below is a link to the clips from the episode.

Clip from The West Wing

This calls into question the nature of the separation of church and state in this country; and, while this is an issue I find pretty fascinating, the truly interesting thing is that this issue is being brought up by a television program. The show is doing as its creator (Aaron Sorkin) has preached in most (if not all) of his work: to raise the level of debate in this county. I can only hope that this episode was watched by many different sorts of people each with their own varying viewpoints on the matter and jumped on the stage opened by the program and began discussing these things.

I think it’s great.

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May 08 2008

so i’m not quite sure of the direction of this blog… or its purpose for that matter… but here’s what i’m thinking so far:

i will write daily (or as daily as i get to) about whatever topic seems to suit me for that time… a venue for fluid thought… essentially… sort of…

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