Small epiphany

My new roommates have discovered that I'm not a bible-loving Republican. Quite upsetting to them. Automatically, I became a gay, vegetarian, gun-hating hippie. For a second, I almost told them I'd much rather just argue politics and leave religion alone. Neither of us is going to change our mind on that subject, right? It doesn't matter how great my arguments are. Like my favorite, "Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it?"

But I had a small epiphany. I don't have any better of a chance to win a political argument with them. Logic be damned, some people follow their political party like a religion. Candidates are infallible saviors, commentators are prophets, and the Word cannot be disputed. When otherwise educated, logical people begin to defend the country's use of torture for no other reason than their party was in charge when it happened, all hope of reasoning with them is lost.