Obama Could Have An In Among White Evangelicals

LATimes ^ | May 19, 2012 | Mitchell Landsberg and Seema Mehta

[ansel12]

That was a good post, thanks for that.

A source of problems for me on these type of threads, is that I don’t know who these people are, yet I know a little about the voting stuff, so I think that sometimes I don’t realize that you guys are talking about real life people, that might have influence.

[Prospero]

Dream on.

[jmaroneps37]

This delusional piece bumps its head on this truth: as per a huge survey done by Pew:
http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Trends-in-Party-Identification-of-Religious-Groups-attendance.aspx

White Evangelicals have gotten 15 percent MORE Republican SINCE 2008. They are now 82% Republican.

[Ann Archy]

Hey Rev.......The sacraments of the Democrat Party are ABORTION nd Gay Marriage. YOU are dancing on the trap door of HELL when you support this EVIL.

[DeaconRed]

Let em think they do. . . . . . .
Wait until it's over they will find out the truth. . . .

[Graybeard58]

Cyanide versus arsenic.

I've appropriated your phrase for my tag line.

[rusty schucklefurd]

Thanks, ansel12.

And, that graph you posted on evangelical voting was very interesting. It illustrates for all to see how the religious vote went down.

All in all I think Obama is going to get shalacked in November. People are upset as I’ve never seen them before. I know that’s just ancedotal, but I’m hoping he won’t just lose, but lose worse than Carter.

Also, I hope the states vote in huge numbers of real conservatives for the house and senate as I don’t think Romney is a fighter. I think if he gets a strong conservative base in congress and they push him to make needed changes, he will go along with it. Otherwise I think he will just go with the status quo.

[chesley]

Your post is very sad. It always is when one sees family or close friends traveling the wrong path.

I will pray for you and them

[chesley]

I’ve seen this attitude on the part of many evangelical churches in the “contemporary” movement (such as Saddleback Church, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, etc.). Learning doctrine isn’t “exciting”. It’s not “fun”.

I'm going you disagree with you on this point. I find it amazingly so. But then I'm 64 and started learning the trumpet this year, so I think I have a curious mind. I've studied the occult for a while, too out of curiosity, but I never tried to practice it. Too much fear of giving Satan an 'in'. The point is, learning is fun, and the reason the country is in so much trouble is that people won't. Not just sound Christian doctrine, but history, economics, science, and math, too, among many other subjects.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “I’m going you disagree with you on this point. I find it amazingly so. But then I’m 64 and started learning the trumpet this year, so I think I have a curious mind. I’ve studied the occult for a while, too out of curiosity, but I never tried to practice it. Too much fear of giving Satan an ‘in’. The point is, learning is fun, and the reason the country is in so much trouble is that people won’t. Not just sound Christian doctrine, but history, economics, science, and math, too, among many other subjects.”

chesley, I totally agree with you. I was not personally saying that learning isn’t fun - it definitely is to me, too. But, what I see is that many people, Believers and non-Believers alike, don’t seem to see learning as interesting or fun - especially in learning the Bible and Biblical doctrine. It takes time and work to know Biblical history and doctrine. Some see doctrine as “boring” and “intellectual” as opposed to “spiritual”.

But I completely agree that learning all these things is an awesome experience as you learn how wonderful God is, how amazing His love, mercy, justice, and His universe is.

[chesley]

Exactly!