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Fiscal| 7.26.12 @ 4:57PM
It's nice to make a comment like this, but who's faith should be represented? I get the sense that you would only want evangelical Christians to be represented, and not Muslims, Jews, or Buddhists -- or atheists, for that matter.
Rice is a great example, but her faith includes moderate stances on abortion and gay marriage. Here are some of her quotes:
"It's extremely important not to assault people, Sometimes I think evangelicals come at people so hard and so fast and don't take time to listen to where somebody is. We can just try to have a lighter touch sometimes."
"You suddenly realize the extent to which man will go to use God for his own purposes rather than the other way around. That for me is the most terrifying thing about the combination of religion and politics, because that is really when man is trying to use God for his own purposes."
On abortion, she said this: "I don't like the government involved in these really hard moral decisions."
Using her as an example is fine because she does indeed marry faith and reason. But that is NOT what most people here think when you talk about faith in the public square. They envision a much more fundamentalist view. That is the real danger, just as Condi stated.
Quin Hillyer| 7.26.12 @ 6:35PM
You are putting words in my mouth, or at least thoughts in my head, that don't exist. What a pathetic cheap shot. The whole point of faith in the public square, as I have written MANY times before, is so that NOBODY can get excluded from the public square because of his faith. And before you accuse me of some sort of wish to block Jews from the square, you ignorant slug, do a little research on my background attending a predominantly Jewish high school and being a leader in the movement to stop David Duke, with PARTICULAR emphasis in my articles and political work on the need to oppose Duke's anti-Semitism.
Meanwhile, as an Anglican with Catholic leanings, I find it particularly rich that you accuse me of wanting to reserve the public square only for Evangelicals -- who are certainly, in their deep faith, my brothers and sisters in commitment to the God we worship in common, and who are in many cases dear friends, but among whose ranks I do not worship.
You, sir, are worse than a bigot: You are a smear artist without any basis in fact. There's a word for that: McCarthyite -- except that at least McCarthy had a bit of basis for his overblown charges, whereas you have none.
aware| 7.27.12 @ 6:34AM
Be sure the light you have is truly light and not darkness, Quin. Having "leanings" toward the beast from the bottomless pit whose mortal wound is healed makes me wonder.
Then there is the 2nd beast(the apostate Protestant church), which is like the first and causes people to worship the first. But we have the 2 witnesses(the Old and New Testament) that can be relied on.
It was the most "religious" of all at the time that Jesus called "sons of Satan" and blind guides. They are with us now professing a "righteousness" while denying the Truth that would set them free. Not getting into the Kingdom and keeping others from entering too.
Don't be deceived in this land of deception. The Dragon that gives power to these 2 beasts is far wilier than your intelligence and perception can discern. Fronts behind fronts behind facades with smokescreens covering all.
Ryan| 7.27.12 @ 10:31AM
Wait, what?
Oldefarte| 7.27.12 @ 10:22AM
Quin, truly excellent, one of your best! I just finished Pat Buchanan's DEATH OF THE WEST and this seems to mirror his thoughts precisely. Without religion, morality and Judeo-Christian values, our culture and our nation will eventually die!!!!