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Barack Obama's evangelicals close the God gap in Presidential race
The Times (UK) ^
| March 7, 2008
| Chris Smyth
Posted on 03/08/2008 1:20:54 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: isrul
"But in an interview this week Jim Wallis says: "Top of the list is what happens to the poor. Poverty is the principal Biblical political issue." He adds: "climate change is now a mainstream evangelical issue."
So therefore global warming shouldn't be taught in school, right? For the same reason the ACLU fought abstinence education in schools. Because it was "religious".
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posted on
03/08/2008 4:02:39 PM PST
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: FocusNexus
What this UK paper forgets is that Conservatives have been dealing with the Reverend this or that for generations and their claim to be “evangelical Christians” ain’t necessarily so. These ‘preachers’ are Marxist agitators with religious rubric.
To: FocusNexus
Oh that’s right! How silly of me! I forgot that Evangelicals would support a man in favor of gay marriage, partial birth abortion and born baby euthanization by the state! Yes how silly of me to forget that! What could I have been thinking?
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posted on
03/08/2008 4:06:06 PM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
To: FocusNexus
Progressive “Evangelicals”. Evangelical is becoming a more and more useless and meaningless term, hijacked by anyone to cloak their agenda. If these people are real Christians they are in dire need of Church discipline for their views on baby killing (abortion), stealing (collectivism), and support of sodomy (gay marriage) all of which Obama is passionate about.
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posted on
03/08/2008 4:50:05 PM PST
by
444Flyer
("Well done is better than well said"-Benjamin Franklin)
To: originalbuckeye
Thinking the same thing. The the hammer and the crescent are a very good fit, but not the cross and sickle. Leftist evangelicals have not really thought the implications of an Obama presidency on home schooling, the 1st Amendment (return of the Fairness Doctrine), how increased taxation will impact charitable donations, support for Israel, etc.
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posted on
03/08/2008 5:16:58 PM PST
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: F15Eagle
Yes. He is a first class chump, isn’t he?
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posted on
03/08/2008 5:18:34 PM PST
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: Blogger
Campolo is an exemplar of the so-called Emerging Church, which is nothing more than theological liberalism in a skimpy bathing suit, one that does not disguise her as being identical to that theologically liberal whore of yesteryear. To use an even older term, Campolo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Yeshua and His apostles warned us the likes of Campolo would be a thick as thieves in the last days.
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posted on
03/08/2008 5:32:49 PM PST
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: FocusNexus
"War is an ethical issue," says Campolo. "You can't foster a war mindset and call yourself a Christian." Ahem...Professor, I seem to remember reading that a noted Jewish religious leader some 2100 years ago, shortly before his death by crucifixion, was quoted as advising his followers, in so many words, "if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one". Would you care to hazard a guess as to his name?
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03/08/2008 5:34:35 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(...William Frank Buckley, Jr., November 24, 1925-February 27, 2008, R.I.P.)
To: kcvl
"Our systems have failed the poor and they have failed the earth,” Wallis has said. “They have failed the creation.”
What a brain-dead idiot. Communist nations are among the most polluted on earth with lines for bread and other staples we take for granted stretching for blocks. The USSR used to dump radioactive waste right onto open ground. There are still mountains of this stuff in Russia and former Soviet republics.
The problem with numb-skulls like Wallis is they haven't spent a single minute critiquing their views. I was a 3rd generation leftie myself, whose ideas were completely upset by repeated encounters with the Truth.
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posted on
03/08/2008 5:52:52 PM PST
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
“These ‘preachers’ are Marxist agitators with religious rubric.”
Definitely.
I also just remembered that the “World Council of Churches” ( or something like that) has been PROVEN to be a communist front.
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posted on
03/08/2008 6:19:20 PM PST
by
FocusNexus
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: F15Eagle
Jesus said nothing about the gay thing in the GospelsThat is not actually true. Jesus affirmed that the Law and the Prophets are the Word of God. The Law condemns homosexuality explicitly. That would be like me reading a section of the penal code dealing with robbery, and concluding that it says nothing about murder. That would violate the laws of logic on more levels than I can count, but I will begin with:
1. the fallacy of ambiguity of accent
2. the fallacy of begging the question
3. the fallacy of hasty generalizaion
4. the fallacy of ignoratio elenchi
5. the fallacy of inconsistency
6. the fallacy of misleading context
7. the straw man fallacy
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posted on
03/08/2008 6:25:46 PM PST
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: Always Right
It was called Sermon on Mounting in the original. Trust Obama. Yes you can.
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posted on
03/08/2008 6:28:37 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Let's win Congress - the Presidency is lost!)
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