Bill Clinton: Democrats Sin By Ignoring Religion

NewsMax ^ | 16 June 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

Former President Bill Clinton praised evangelical Christians on Thursday for their recent efforts on global warming and debt relief for poor nations and said he sees growing understanding between people of different faiths.

Clinton made the remarks while accepting an award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. He said that as president he had "a consuming interest in the intersection of religion and politics."

He said evangelicals, few of whom voted for him, "were instrumental in the biggest debt relief initiative in history in my last year as president because they believed in the admonition of the Scripture to alleviate the burdens of the poor."

Clinton also noted the publication earlier this year of "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action," which was signed by many leading conservative Christians and which frames environmental protection as a Christian imperative.

The mission of the New York-based Tanenbaum Center is "to defuse verbal and physical violence perpetrated in the name of religion" worldwide, according to the group's Web site.

Clinton, speaking at the group's awards luncheon, said religion is a problem for both liberals and conservatives in the United States.

"For people in America who are a part of my political tradition, our great sin has often been ignoring religion or denying its power or refusing to engage it because it seemed hostile to us," he said. "For ... the so-called Christian right and its allies, their great sin has been believing they were in full possession of the truth."

Clinton, a Southern Baptist, noted that there was once a resolution at his denomination's convention to expel his church because of his positions in favor of abortion rights and gay rights. It failed.

[Aussie Dasher]

Anybody mention to BJ that bit about seperation of Church and State? :)

I can't tell you how much Clintoon sickens me...

[goodnesswins]

SOUTHERN Baptists appear (to me) to be commies.....with apologies to anyone here who is a Southern Baptist and can educate me....

[Paleo Conservative]

He's speaking as an expert.

[mylife]

Bill is just trying to give the dems some talking points that may be of consequense in the elections.

He knows theyve got bupkis

[taxesareforever]

He said that as president he had "a consuming interest in the intersection of religion and politics."

And here all along I thought he had a "consuming interest in the intersection of the Presidency and interns."

[Texasforever]

SOUTHERN Baptists appear (to me) to be commies.....with apologies to anyone here who is a Southern Baptist and can educate me

I have the feeling that you are beyond education.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"For ... the so-called Christian right and its allies, their great sin has been believing they were in full possession of the truth."

For so-called ex-President's who question the meaning of what "is" is.....it's a bit hard to except his definition of "truth".

[headstamp]

"He said that as president he had "a consuming interest in the intersection of religion and politics."


I bet you did Bill. This guy is pathological.

[potlatch]

Oh wow, words from the mouth of our great X-Rated X-Moral X-Leader!

[hsrazorback1]

Do my eyes deceive me, but is Billy Bob in agreement with Ms. Coulter? Tell me it can't be.

[Suzy Quzy]

Funny...he didn't mention Jesus or God just global warming and other suck tripe.

[mylife]

the so-called Christian right and its allies, their great sin has been believing they were in full possession of the truth."

what a load of BS! I see more knowit alls on the left than I've ever seen on the right.

[bray]

DemonRats have their Religion, it is called Liberalism. They have sacrificed millions of babies to that worship.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[wizardoz]

Ah yes. If your religion calls for you to stop abortion, you are violating the separation of church and state that is enshrined in the Constitution (at least, liberals are certain that it is. They aren't quite sure WHERE, but anyway...) However, if your religion calls for you to tax the rich out of existence to feed, educate, clothe, house, employ, and heal the poor... particularly if they're here illegally... then you're just a compassionate, enlightened individual who understands what Christianity is REALLY all about.

[Smartass]

LOL, another good one potlatch...

   
Take that slick Willy...

 

[devolve]

Caught me with that one.......

[potlatch]

LOL!

[grey_whiskers]

Nice picture, but I wouldn't do that around Bubba.

[swheats]

"He said that as president he had "a consuming interest in the intersection of religion and politics."

LOL always praying he'd never get caught with Lewinsky and hoping everyone would forgive him.

[Enchante]

BILL CLINTON (day-dreaming): Gosh, when I think of religion I think of all the luscious babes I've met in churches all over this great land..... mmmmm, mmmmmm, there's nothing like pretending to be a man of fervent faith, yet frail and struggling with sin, that gets some of my favorite cupcakes aroused for me...... ah, yes, religion is great thing, it's brought me so much ecstasy and the best thing about it is I can never think of Hillary when I'm in church because I only associate her with the infernal regions.......

[Mike Darancette]

Their religion is liberalism.

[martin_fierro]

Bill Clinton: Democrats Sin By Ignoring Religion

Jan. 5, 2001 Nearly everyone fortunate enough to get a solo audience with the pope has no trouble paying attention. But not, according to Pope John Paul II, President Clinton.

• In an interview published in Italian weekly magazine Oggi, the surgeon who operated on the pope in 1994 said the 80-year-old pontiff had revealed details of some relaxed conversations.
• Dr. Gianfranco Fineschi said the pope told him: "The only leader I did not manage to have a proper conversation with was Clinton. I was speaking, and he was looking at one of the walls, admiring the frescoes and the paintings.
  "He was not listening to me."
• Mr. Clinton had an audience with the pope in June 1994 in the ceremonial library of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, where the pope and his visitors sit in straight-backed mahogany chairs amid ancient books and 15th-century furnishings.
• Mr. Clinton's wife did not accompany him to the library, where frescoes depict angels of indeterminate sex wearing little more than angelic expressions.

[potlatch]

Is that good?

[goodnesswins]

Noooo...it's just that the only two Southern Baptists I've known are a neighbor who is a flaming socialist, and Bill Clinton.....sorry if my exposing my ignorance bothers you. I don't claim to be an expert or have knowledge in EVERYTHING!

[Waryone]

Why would you say Southern Baptists appear to be commies?

Clinton is not praising them. He's praising the left wing commie megachurch leaders (Rick Warren) who think that global warming is something they should be fighting. I hate to think what their reaction will be when the ultimate global warming from God comes.

[swheats]

Who would have thought it would be Bill Clinton to answer the religion question for liberals.

[goodnesswins]

see post 24

[LowOiL]

SOUTHERN Baptists appear (to me) to be commies.....with apologies to anyone here who is a Southern Baptist and can educate me....

Take a good look at some of us, Commies to the hilt...

www.secondbaptistfp.com

I agree with Texasforever...your beyond educating ...

[Texasforever]

Well Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant Denomination in the country and overwhelmingly conservative and GOP voters.

[Texasforever]

BTW I believe that both Carter and Clinton were kicked out of the SBC.

[grey_whiskers]

Insert your own "Bill Clinton wants them on their KNEES" joke here.

Here again are the Clinton Ten Commandments:

1. Thou shalt have no Gods before Hillary.
2. Thou shalt not make for yourself an idol in the form of an elephant. You shall not campaign for it or vote for it. For I am a jealous God, punishing the sins of white males to the third and fourth generation of those I hate.
3. Do not take Hillary's name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath Day, especially while campaigning.
5. Dishonor your father and your mother, the capitalist pigs.
6. Do not kill. Consider having your underlings do it.
7. THOU SHALT COMMIT ADULTERY.
8. Thou shalt not steal except for Whitewater, Cattle Futures, and White House silverware.
9. Thou shalt give false testimony against thy accusers.
10. THOU SHALT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, ESPECIALLY HER ASS.
...and two special Clinton bonuses:
11. IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'IS' IS.
12. (From John 8:11) "Neither then do I condemn you. Go, and Sin Some More."

Cheers!

[goodnesswins]

No....just uneducated about Baptists....I'm a Northern gal....and know little about Baptists except what I see in Bill Clinton and my neighbor, as mentioned above.....but, I am educable...oh master....

[goodnesswins]

ps....it's you're

[LowOiL]

BTW... at the link I provided, read what the pastor has to say...

We are a conservative, Bible-believing fellowship.

Emphasis is mine on conservative...

[mylife]

"The only leader I did not manage to have a proper conversation with was Clinton. I was speaking, and he was looking at one of the walls, admiring the frescoes and the paintings.
"He was not listening to me."


Theres a big surprise

[goodnesswins]

I did not know that....thanks.

[Captainpaintball]

The Personal jee-sus of the liberal movement returns from the dead to make a holey croc-lomation.

It appears Ann Coulter Damage Control is in full swing...

[devolve]

I forgot it was a .gif

[goodnesswins]

Glad to hear that......do you know about Presbyterians.....there's TWO kinds.....

[george76]

[LowOiL]

No....just uneducated about Baptists....I'm a Northern gal....and know little about Baptists except what I see in Bill Clinton and my neighbor, as mentioned above.....but, I am educable...oh master....

Ok, this will help you, one... we threw out Jimmy Carter's church... and they tried to throw out Clinton's church (don't know what happened there). Also we are the fasted growing demonation in America (most are shrinking). Also, if you trace the red states in the south , you pretty much have an outline of where the Southern Baptist vote.

[Southack]

Democrats aren't ignoring religion...in California they are suing to have religion taken off every city seal, off every public tombstone (no more crosses for you, buster), out of our Pledge of allegiance, and off of our money.

[potlatch]

Guess you hadn't seen it before.

[cardinal4]

Mr. Clinton's wife did not accompany him to the library, where frescoes depict angels of indeterminate sex wearing little more than angelic expressions.

Yeah, I heard vampires have trouble in churches..

[goodnesswins]

Thanks.....it helps to learn from others on FR....as I said....I am "UNEDUCATED" about Baptists...I ALWAYS thought Baptists were Conservative until Clinton came along, and my neighbor...who attends a very LIBERAL Southern Baptist Church in Seattle.....BTW, our Presbyterian Church is growing by leaps and bounds....it's very CONSERVATIVE and a PCA Church....NOT PCUSA.

[ThomasThomas]

BTW I believe that both Carter and Clinton were kicked out of the SBC.


Only local churchs can remove people from there local church. The SBC can't tell any local church what to do.

[mylife]

There are libs and conservatives in all religions and sects

Overall the libs tend to reinterpret the word as they see fit IMHO

[Kryptonite]

Well, the Klintoon Klan are commies, but not the lot of southern baptists. Many of them are very much against abortion and will not vote for demonrats because of it.

[Texasforever]

Then that may have been what I was remembering. It could be that Carter just severed his ties but Clinton was ineffect "ex-communicated"

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