Posted on 01/30/2008 11:32:45 PM PST by bshomoic
This is too harsh a characterization of fundamentalist Christians. It is human nature to associate with people who share your views. Someone who lives in Berkeley, California, or the Upper West Side of Manhattan is in as much of a cocoon as any Baptist or Assemblies of God believer in the Missouri Ozarks, except that it is overwhelmingly liberal and secular. Someone in much of rural Utah, where Mormonism is the de facto established church, in a town like Keene, Texas, where Seventh Day Adventists prevail, or in a community of conservative Catholics like the ones in St. Mary's, Kansas or Ave Maria, Florida, are similarly isolated. Perhaps fundamentalist Christians are close-minded, but so are lots of others, especially "open minded" liberals.
And are you okay with McCain’s vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
I’m sorry, gays in the military is about a million rungs below marriage in my estimation of relative importance.
This kind of thinking in Southern Missouri is the result of marrying your cousins.
abortions actually went down in Arkansas under Huckabee. If anyone is the opportunist it’s romney
No, its really McCain.
not if you care about the military...
I’m not ok with McCain. But at least he’s not made out of jello.
“not if you care about the military...”
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Banning 2% of the population eligible to serve in the military (well, not even banning them...) is more important than how our nation defines family...
I’m sorry, your priorities are screwed up.
As for McCain not being made of Jello, check out your boy on waterboarding and on dealing with international pressure to close Gitmo. Quiver, quiver. Or backstabbing. Maybe that’s it?
Or his 3-day flip-flop on whether or not he’d vote on his little amnesty bill if given the chance again. He’s all over the place on that one. Understandably so. Everyone knows exactly what he wants—the opinions of the American people and our future be shucky darned.
I care about Right to Life and I am very concerned when Romney touts a fake record. I am a Huckabee supporter all the way!
“especially “open minded” liberals”
Sorry, I’m a Baptist and not a liberal, I just believe in our Constitution and freedom of religion. I believe that ministers should stay out of politics except when they vote. I don’t believe in loyalty oaths for seminary faculty and telling people what to believe. I use the term cult in the sense that many of the mega churches are founded by and run completely by the minister and the ones that are not founded by the minister frequently have had the same minister 20+ years. This is not normal for a Baptist Church. It appears that these groups seem to develop a personality cult relationship with their ministers. Having graduated from a Baptist College and after being around seminary students for 30 years I may have a slightly different view of these individuals than the average church member. I am not including all churches or all ministers.I start worrying about anyone that forgets the Constitution and say they will vote for someone because he prays. Osama probably prays but I doubt anyone listens. I belive in separation of Church and State and tolerance. I think those that are close-minded are limiting themselves and their religion and can be easily duped for someone else’s benefit. You can be open minded and moral without being liberal (in the current sense). Close minded people have a tendency to start hating and burning books whether they are Conservative or Liberal.
A person should convince others by the power of their logic not with the power of the law.
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