Posted by
daddontsk8 on Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:26:29 PM
With the campaign for POTUS
well underway, the political pollsters, pundits and reporters are
dominating the news. A Time magazine article published today, TIME Poll: Faith of the Candidates slipped into absurdity.
One of the questions reported in the consumer poll asked, “Do you
think that a president should or should not allow his own personal
religious faith to guide him in making decisions as president?”
This is one of the stupidest questions I’ve ever encountered. How
can the foundation of a person’s outlook on life be somehow separated
from that person? This question is the equivalent of asking a poor
person to make decisions as though he were never poor, or a person of
color to make decisions as though he were not a person of color. How is
it possible to remove the lens through which we see the world?
The religion of the candidates (not their stated religion, but their
actual religion), therefore, is of vital importance. Giuliani’s
Catholicism, Romney’s Mormon faith, Obama and Clinton’s Protestantism,
Huckabee’s Evangelicalism and Gore’s Gaia worship are all of vital
importance in understanding the kind of decisions the person will make.
Jesus taught,
No
servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. - Luke 16:13
A person’s stated religion is not necessarily their real religion.
The real religion of the candidate is the thing they love. With that in
mind, let’s try to understand the REAL religion of a few of the
candidates.
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