Check your God-o-meter

beliefnet’s god-o-meterThe annoyingly ad-full Beliefnet.com and Time magazine offer the 2008 election God-o-Meter (pronounced Gah-DOM-meter). It tracks “god talk” and “god talk effectiveness” from the presidential candidates and ranks them on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a “secularist” and 10 is a “theocrat.” The accompanying blog details the latest campaign godjinx like when John McCain insists the US a Christian nation or Barack goes on his 40 Days of Faith and Family Tour or Gary Bauer gets on the Fred Thompson train.


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2 Responses to “Check your God-o-meter”

  1. Mark
    7. October 2007 at 22:09

    good start Kate. I like your riff on what not to be called. Maybe I’ll go buy a shirt.

  2. admin
    7. October 2007 at 23:20

    thanks mark! — re shirt buying — I should have new designs over the next couple of weeks — learning the new tools on the cool new platform …

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