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Like I said on the show last weekend, I want to see more faith in the Presidential election. Why are Huckabee and Romney the only two who get asked about their faith? Asking all the candidates to share about their faith, the origin of their moral and values systems, and their philosophies of life only serves to help me know a candidate better.
My faith teaches me 5 things about politics
Faith teaches me
1)Hope comes from God, not the government. No candidate or party is going to usher in the Kingdom of God.
2)No candidate is Jesus; nor does any candidate have a corner on the faith marketplace. The candidates are human beings like the rest of us; they are not divine.
3)Freedom is precious and rare and therefore to be valued. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are precious gems of our republic and I want as little government interference as possible.
4)Weak and vulnerable matter. That includes the homeless, the mentally ill, and the unborn. How you provide protection and help to them varies. Often, government is not the answer here either and the free market may do a better job. I'd like to know a candidate's faith in order to get their perspective on this.
5)I am happy for candidates to talk about their faith. We are big people, we're grown ups, and we can handle hearing their answers. We can use that as part of our decision making – just do not expect me to use their faith as my sole criterion for supporting a candidate.
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Because they are the only ones we suspect of actually believing that nonsense.
Christian faith in politics gives us such useless and wasteful policies such as abstinence only sex ed or invading countries that feature prominently in the Biblical narratives.
On the other hand, if a candidate is very religious, I'd want to know about it so I can vote against him or her. For example Huckabee and Hillary are in the "won't vote for them under any circumstances, even if they were running against Kang and Kodos" category for that very reason.
However, since most of the country is bigoted against people of no faith, a nonreligious candidate would have to fake it to some extent to get elected. That is very unfortunate but those are the days we live in.
But you cannot tell me legitimately that Bush went to Iraq for "biblical reasons." As much as some would like to relate Iraq to the Inquisitions, etc...there just isn't the evidence for that. It may be about oil (I'll concede that at least), but some "crusader mission" is just factually inaccurate.
Plus, Carter was a wuss, hence Regan's rise to power.
By your own admission, you are just as bigoted, only in reverse.
I will say I agree with you in that these are sad says we live in because politicians do I have to "fake it" if it isn't there. Frankly, I'd rather you just be true to who you are, and recognize that I am not voting for a Christian in office, I am voting or someone who I agree with politically.
"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
Does every President have the right to amend the constitution to his or her (hopefully not her) own personal beliefs? This is why religion should not coincide in our government. Since we are living in a country thats "free," should Huckabee's beliefs be oppressed on everyone?
Great to hear from you dude! Hope all is well with you.
No President can change the Constitution. Not even Huckabee, but he can lead an effort to do so with lots of voter approval.
Did he make this statement relative to a particular subject or issue?
I have a feeling it wasn't in regards to poll taxes or quartering of soldiers.
While I agree that abstinence only sex-ed is not a good thing I am a little surprised that you agree since you do support abstinence as a virtue.
Maybe not so much consciously, but certainly subconsciously. Babylon features prominently in Biblical narratives and is even used as an archetype of an evil power in Revelation.
Who said anything about the Inquisition?
I am not convinced given the number of hot spots around the Earth and disproportional focus on Iraq.
Which does not take away from the fact that he was one of the most religious presidents we've had in a century.
No I am not. Most Americans would not vote for any atheist or agnostic. That is bigotry. I have no problem voting for a Christian unless their religion is so overwhelming that it overpowers their judgment.
It clearly applies to Huckabee and I have an uneasy feeling about Hillary Clinton. For example, she is a member of The Fellowship, a very conservative, sex segregated Bible study in Washington that "seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill" and which is affiliated with the likes of Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum or Chuck Holson (Watergate convict cum professional Christian fundamentalist proselytizer in prisons).