Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 13, 2015

Carson is correct. Before the president-elect can take office as president he/she must by the requirements of the Constitution swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Devout Muslims only follow Sharia law and thus could not in good conscience swear to uphold the Constitution (taqiyya notwithstanding). You will find several Islamic leaders stating Sharia and the Constitution are incompatible.

Agreed, Tim. It’s a no-brainer to me as well. I am not even convinced we should be allowing Muslims in the armed forces for exactly the same reason.

You can say the same thing about those “devout” christians who believe their religion supersedes the Constitution.

If anyone thinks their religion is above the Constitution, he/she should NOT be in public office. Idiots who wish to rule this country according to their religion are a danger.

Those who wish to live in a theocracy need to move to the middle east. Let them see how they like Iran or Iraq.

This is a secular nation, and needs to remain as such.

“I no [know] of no politicians who have advocated using their Christian religion to trump the Constitution.”.If you’re being honest, then you haven’t been paying attention.

To the best of my knowledge, I have not heard of many “radical” Christians advocating or condoning killing non-believers. I would that is the biggest distinction between those two belief systems.

Nice sheets and hooded robe there Tim. Get them at Hobby Lobby?

But seriously, I find this one of the best Prickly City strips in a very long time. It works on so many levels and it shows that Scott is capable of nuance..Incoming tomatoes already. Yes, I know, many of you have pointed out that Scott doesn’t really do this strip. Forgive me, but I forgot the name of who the ghostwriter is..Nuance: Scott is a conservative. Of Carmen and Winslow, Carmen is the designated conservative. But clearly, Carmen and Scott are not political carbon copies of each other..Nuance: I actually think Scott (or his ghostwriter) is using Carmen to take a shot at Republican “birthers” who did so much to discredit Republicans and conservatives in general.

Not sure if anyone in this crowd would care, but a year ago, I was driving through the northwest corner of Indiana, pretty much between Lafayette and Chicago. Specifically, I was driving through Benton County and the towns of Fowler, Earl Park, and Kentland..What I heard over the radio dial was dark and disturbing. I guess I was well beyond the reach of city radio stations, with country music, rock, or hip-hop. All I heard was religious radio stations. And by religious, I mean Christian..Different commentators, but mostly the same message, from all points of the radio dial:.Obama is a Muslim and has promised the imams in the Middle East to “convert” the entire United States into the world’s largest Islamic nation.

Flash back to the late fifties and early sixties, and the big “payola” scandals. Record companies would pay radio stations to play certain records to sell those records..A fancy way of saying, the more you hear something, the more you are likely to “buy into” it.

The sermons I was listening to were so off-the-wall that I wanted to laugh out loud..But I cried, instead..I cried, knowing that there must be so many who believed this stuff..Even if for no other reason than, they kept hearing it over and over and over.

Well, actually, when pressed, Carson said he would be ok with a Muslim president, as long as he was a Christian. And Bernie would be ok, as long as he’s a Christian, too. :-)But not Carson; he doesn’t support the Constitution, which clearly states religious tests for office are unConstitutional.

Actually he said not a Muslim who puts the tenets of that faith above our Constitution and the values associated with it.

Reminds me of the old Rev. Sun Myung Moon self-contradiction, “Sometimes, in defense of the truth, you have to lie a little.”

What a relief! I thought they were nothing like us!

Dear Nailer, you confuse the reformation with classical liberalism. Don’t think either Martin Luther or John Calvin were ever confused with John Locke.

Agree with Tim Gilley on the false equivalency; Jesus advises all to render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and to God that which is God’s. The Christian mind has no difficulty separating civic duty from religious belief. Only leftists – for whom government (in any of its forms: global warming, abortion and the death cult, pornography, environmentalism) is THE substitute religion – compel all to obey their beliefs.

Levitical law would be Jewish. As far as ‘Christian’ law the words of Christ would seem appropriate, “Give to Caesar what Caesar’s and give to God what is God’s.” He didn’t speak of one against the other, but to behave duly in both realms.