God is not a Republican.....so is he a Democrat?

For the past few general elections in the States, the Republicans have been using religion as way to get into the voter's hearts (more than their minds). Knowing that this wildcard didn't exist in their back pockets, the Democrats lost some considerable amounts of the voting population.

Well now the Dems have decided to use God as source to get voters on their side. Candidates like Bob Casey, who is running in for the Senate in Pennsylvania describes himself as a "pro-life Catholic".

Harold Ford Jnr, a young black Democrat in Tennessee, is drawing on his Christian faith - even recording a TV ad in a church.

Senator Barack Obama has been also been wearing his religion on his sleeve as he campaigns on behalf of fellow Democrats.

In a recent survey though only one in four voters saw the Democrats as "friendly" towards religion.

Since the last 20 years the religious right has, portrayed God as a Republican. But in the wake of sexual and corruption scandals, evangelical enthusiasm for the Republicans has dropped, and the Democrats see an opportunity to bridge what has been dubbed the "God Gap" in political circles.

I'm not sure why politics in America are being geared towards this 'Godly' feature, when in fact there are a lot of issues that don't even have to do with religion. It is true that the country was founded on non-religious grounds (seperation between church and state) yet by some puritanical leaders. Yet over the years since that proclaimation, politicians have used religion to their advantage.

The common man does believe in God, and that is good, but sometimes I wonder if the God fearing people who base their votes on such, really know the reality of what's going on? Just because your candidate's talk about his closeness to God, or being a born-again Christian or what not, does that make you a better person? I mean I could lie for all that matters before the elections, and when I get voted in just forget about God in total.

I've had friends who during high school and college used to say that the Republicans are good cause they believe in God. My question to them always was, so does that make the Democrats devil worshippers? And when quizzed about the issues at hand, they had no idea on what was going on. The sad part was some even sounded like in-the-closet Dems who were agreeing to whatever their parents were telling them at home or worse their pastor. But all in all their viewpoints sounded like they were anti-GOP.

To me neither a Republican nor Democrat should be using God's name in vain for their political purposes. With a diverse country like the USA, God has no business in being in politics.