Posted on 02/14/2005 12:14:51 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Despite the role evangelicals played in swaying the 2004 presidential election, evangelicals in the Chicago area are not a political force to be reckoned with -- yet.
That will soon change if Andy McKenna, newly elected chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, has anything to do with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Church historian Martin Marty said..."I love the moat we have around Illinois...We are so far from being a red state, it's hard for them to get things going here."
Martin Marty, rumored to be Lutheran, is actually a despicable apostate leftist dweeb.
I think he thinks he's one of those enlightened elitists who knows more than anyone else and anyone privileged enough to read his writings will be so bamboozled by his brilliance they won't want to show their stupidity by admitting they don't know what he was saying. Either he's an idiot, or I am.
Oops. I should have said "he THINKS he knows more than anyone else."
Hmmmmm...it's not you! :)
Church historian Martin Marty said that, while many Chicago area evangelicals are against abortion and gay marriage -- two hallmarks of the current Republican platform -- they aren't "summonable" as a group the way their counterparts in other areas of the country are.Marty himself is a well-known theological liberal (i.e. heretic) with a long history of syncretism, postmodern weirdness and denying Biblical authority."I love the moat we have around Illinois," Marty said. "We are so far from being a red state, it's hard for them to get things going here."
Get thee Evangelicals and Mormons to New York and New Jersey!
'Church historian Martin Marty'
I am hoping this clown is ELCA.
Meaning no offense, but: no Body and Blood of Christ = no Power. Traditions of men, however lovely and well-intentioned, are no substitute for the Real Presence of Christ.
Oh yeah. He certainly is. I just think it's a misfortune that he darkens the name “Lutheran” at all.
MM is clearly a false, heretical teacher leading many people astray. Sortof like a “Lutheran” Bishop Spong.
As far as I know, only Baptistic and other independent groups follow the teaching of Zwingli, i.e. symbolism or "memorialism."
California and Illinois are examples of how states with large numbers of evangelicals lack strong political influence. In the case of Illinois, Chicago and its suburbs are the 800 pound gorilla of state politics. Illinois has much in common with Indiana in terms of the origins of its people and economic engines. However, the Hoosier State is the most Republican state east of the Great Plains and north of the Mason-Dixon line. The principal difference is that Lake County, in the extreme northwest corner of Indiana, though similar to adjacent Chicago in many respects, has minimal impact on the state overall.
Thanks. He's a relative of people I know. They're Dems.
LOL! That figures :)
I've always liked Indiana! They're alot like us (Ohio) except without all the socialism and union/mafia influence of Cleveland and Youngstown.
Thanks. Very interesting article.
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