Michelle: Joe is guided by faith...will listen to science

[stopbush]

I love Michelle O as much as anyone, but I look forward to the day when bromides like “guided by faith (ie: make believe)” are no longer seen as a positive for a political candidate.

[SCantiGOP]

1. I don't mind it

I think it means "has a strong moral belief that guides his action."
I don't care if that system is secular humanism (like me), Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.

[progressoid]

8. That's the problem...

That faith in god is somehow necessary for a strong moral belief to guide one's actions. Which implies that those of us without a faith in god don't have that guide.

[Siwsan]

2. People can interpret that phrase in a number of ways.

You can have faith in things secular, too. Such as faith in science. Faith in the goodness of most people.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Not really.

They aren't equivocating here. They are highlighting Biden's religion because they trying to pitch his candidacy to religious voters.

[Siwsan]

7. It sounded, to me, like a pitch to rational people, whether they be religious or secular

But that's just my interpretation. Religious people are an outreach group, too.

[Ingersollman]

3. I

agree. To me, it's pandering. With the social changes we are undergoing, I'm gaining confidence that I might live to see the day when these things are things of the past.

[RussBLib]

4. It depends on which faith

And unspoken is that Biden's faith is Catholicism, a branch of Christianity. I guess Joe's "faith" is "better" than Trump's, which is just one hypocrisy piled on top of another.

Morons these days are guided by their faith in the QAnon BS.

Do I need to say that, in just another in the long, long list of people guided by their faith to commit atrocities, in 2001, a bunch of Islamic fanatics, guided by their faith, flew jet planes full of innocent passengers into buildings filled with people.

But I totally agree.

[Brainstormy]

5. I hated that line.

hated it!