What about Barack Obama for most religious? He seems to spend one-third of his time worshiping his messiah (also one-third for golf and one-third for destroying our country).
Posted on 09/27/2012 5:28:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If elected, Mitt Romney “would arguably be the most actively religious President in American history,” according to a profile in the latest New Yorker. Who’s been our most religious president?
Jimmy Carter, probably. It’s impossible to know the contents of a man’s heart, but historians who study the religious lives of the presidents point again and again to the words and deeds of James Earl Carter Jr. The Georgia Baptist set a new standard during his 1976 presidential campaign when he described himself as “born again,” and he was frank about his religious beliefs throughout his presidency.
While in office, Carter attended church wherever he went, even while on the road, and continued to teach Sunday school when at home. He prayed daily and read the Bible, and when he wasn’t reading the Bible he read theologians like Reinhold Niebuhr. Like Romney, he also knocked on doors as a missionary, addressing potential converts by saying, “I’m Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer. Do you accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior?” Since his presidency he has continued his Christian mission on annual trips for Habitat for Humanity, and when he accepted the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, he spoke of Jesus Christ as “the Prince of Peace.” His Secret Service codename was “The Deacon.”
Prior to Jimmy Carter, the most God-fearing U.S. president may have been James Garfield. Garfield is the only president who was actually a clergyman. At a young age Garfield became a minister for the Disciples of Christ, where he was lauded for his skill as a preacher, and he learned Greek—the original language of the New Testament. Though it was not his full-time job, he continued to preach and minister for years until his presidency.
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That is so true.My ex brother in law was Green Beret in Vietnam in 69. I know he saw heavy combat. In the thousands of hours I spent around him, I heard the word Vietnam come out of his mouth maybe twice. Contrast that to John Kerry, who mentioned Vietnam constantly, but was a traitor. I ran into an old man walking with a cane in the supermarket. He had on a WW ll veterans cap. I shook his hand and thanked him for his service. He didn’t say much, except that he had fought in the Pacific and was wounded. As he spoke his eyes filled with tears, and he said, “I fought like hell for this country because I love it!” I walked away wiping a few tears of my own.
What about Barack Obama for most religious? He seems to spend one-third of his time worshiping his messiah (also one-third for golf and one-third for destroying our country).
What a lie. What about Washington? A man who bent his knee in prayer for his country many a time? What about Lincoln?]
Grrr.
I'm certain God will judge him far less harshly for missing church but exhibiting extraordinary human decency than he will Bill Clinton, who strutted around with a huge Bible as a stage prop but seldom, if ever, actually read what was inside.
One of the key reasons Mormons have more money relative to other denominations of similar size is that nobody gets paid. As one consequence, there are no career Bishops.
Jimmy Carter and the Empty Suitcase?
My father told me so very little about his World War II service when he was alive. Whatever information I got from him, I had to extract, generally when we were alone together on a long drive or canoe trip into the wilderness, or fishing trip in the mountains with my brothers. I've subsequently found out that he was one of the first to volunteer for the Naval Air Corps and may have ended up fighting (and dying) at those early battles like Midway if he hadn't been transferred against his wishes to shipboard duty, where he was promoted to an officer.
As it was, he saw action in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa and was among the first units assigned to occupy Japan after the war ended.
My father never mentioned it. I found out after he died that he parachuted into France on D-Day.
My uncle earned a Bronze Star at Anzio in 1944 (I think). I didn't know about it until I did genealogical research this last year (he died in 1982). Some relative had the award letter.
Those who have done, need not talk.
The noise about Christianity is attempting to get human acceptance. Which is antithetical to the whole point, isn't it?
McKinley
What an incredibly dishonest post, and a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Romney and his father were both Bishops, but the reason that we call Romney "Bishop" Romney is that he rose to the equivalent of a Roman Catholic Bishop, not merely Priest.
Mitt Became a Stake President, he was in charge of all the Bishops of his region, and had powers of excommunication.
There is even more to Bishop Romney, not only is he a Priest, was a Bishop, and then a Stake President, he first received permission from his Holy Prophet, to run for president, in a secretive meeting in 2005.
Some think that Mitt has already received his ‘second anointing’, and is guaranteed to become a God himself, according to his religion. Some Mormons believe that Bishop Romney is the fulfillment of the “White Horse Prophecy”.
Mitt lives, knowing that he will some day be worshiped as God, and will rule over his own planet as our God rules over us.
I have mixed feelings aout this. We celebrate their service on Memorial Day, but what are we supposed to remember if they don't tell their story? Sure, we will always remember their service, their laying down of their lives for their country; but it's not as impactful as knowing what they went through for our freedom.
Being religious and having a personal relationship with God are two different things.
While that post wins you the creepiest post of the year award, it also shows that your own posts are meaningless, even to you.
You were only pretending to be interested in knowing the facts of Mitt’s religious offices held.
Sounds more like his assassin was a delusional psychotic. He may have been religious or a drinker of milk, but the qualities that led him to kill the president appear to be neither of those.
an assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, an apparently delusional if not wholly psychotic Federal office-seeker who had believed himself to be on close terms with Garfield even though he and Garfield had never spoken to each other. Guiteau also believed himself assured of a Federal appointment as the United States consul in Paris – a position for which he had no qualifications. Guiteau believed as well that a short speech he had partially presented before a small group of people during the presidential election campaign was in fact the cause of Garfield's election to the presidency and which, therefore, justified his appointment. ...Guiteau also believed he would be acquitted of any crime and be elected President after the trial.[
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