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Clinton’s Christian faith, once a political weapon, all but absent from campaign
The Washington Times ^ | September 4, 2016 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 09/04/2016 5:06:27 PM PDT by jazusamo

Hillary Clinton’s Christianity, which she wielded as a political weapon in her 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, largely has been missing in this year’s election.

She hasn’t hidden her Methodist upbringing, but scholars say it’s not front and center. And where in the past she used it as a window into her character, this year she’s deployed it as a debate tactic to push criminal justice reform and other policy goals.

Church attendance also has been all but absent from Mrs. Clinton’s schedule, except when she’s turned up behind a pulpit to stump for votes, particularly in predominantly black churches, where her appearances focus largely on how she intends to work with religious leaders to accomplish shared political objectives.

Since 2008 she’s also abandoned traditional Christian positions on issues such as same-sex marriage, coming in favor of the practice in 2013 after years of opposing it.

The reason for the shift, analysts say, is twofold. Mrs. Clinton is taking on an opponent, Republican Donald Trump, who is seen as one of the most nonreligious presidential candidates in modern history. Pew polling from earlier this year found that just 30 percent of American voters say they consider Mr. Trump religious, while 48 percent said the same about Mrs. Clinton.

Perhaps more importantly, she now leads a party that, among its white base, if not its core black and Hispanic members, has become an increasingly secular institution. Recent polling shows the Democratic Party includes in its ranks nearly four times as many atheists and agnostics as the GOP.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; christianity; clinton; hillary; hitlery; religion; witchcraft
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Mrs. Bill Clinton portraying herself as a Christian is laughable, maybe that's a lie she's given up on.
1 posted on 09/04/2016 5:06:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
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They ought to accuse her of being a Christian to irritate her base.


2 posted on 09/04/2016 5:09:07 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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she now leads a party that, among its white base, if not its core black and Hispanic members, has become an increasingly secular anti-God institution

Fixed it.

3 posted on 09/04/2016 5:09:09 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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all but absent from campaign

She's all but absent from the campaign. Besides, how do you miss something (her "faith") that was never there?

4 posted on 09/04/2016 5:11:45 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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What Christian faith?


5 posted on 09/04/2016 5:14:25 PM PDT by sport
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Clinton’s Christian faith

             

6 posted on 09/04/2016 5:15:11 PM PDT by tomkat
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The Left is more or less anti-Christian.

Hillary has been quick to accommodate the zeitgeist.


7 posted on 09/04/2016 5:15:20 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Remember the article about Hillary meeting with the medium and refusing to talk to Jesus? News flash - talking to Jesus is what Christians do.


8 posted on 09/04/2016 5:21:33 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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As a Shepherd of Christian flocks for over four decades I can say this story is pure sheep poo...First of all. The thing necessary to become a Christian is a personal relationship with Jesus and He said we would be known by our fruits...the only fruits i see evident in Hillary are lying, conniving, deceiving, obfuscating and putting the whole nation at risk while amassing enormous personal wealth at our peril.I don't care what she calls herself I can tell you that is NOT CHRISTIAN.
Now as for Mr Trump he attended church every week as a child. His parents went to Dr Norman Vincent Peale's Collegiate church we could get into all kinds of semantics as to whether Peale's tome's were good Christian doctrine, but they sure were a darn sight better than Hillary Clinton. I must say that John Wesley, his brother Charles and George Whitfield would not recognize Hillary as a Christian and neither will I.
Recently none other than Dr James Dobson said Mr Trump had a recent born again experience which goes back to my first point. It is not church attendance that makes one a believer its believing in the One whom the Father sent and having a relationship with that Son.
Freegards
LEX
9 posted on 09/04/2016 5:22:51 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Bump!


10 posted on 09/04/2016 5:23:07 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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A “weapon”? Really, comPost?


11 posted on 09/04/2016 5:26:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Well said, Thanks!


12 posted on 09/04/2016 5:26:25 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Sorry, I meant “Times”?


13 posted on 09/04/2016 5:26:45 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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GO, TRUMP, GO!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

14 posted on 09/04/2016 5:28:30 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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What faith?

I recently rewatched “Rosemary’s Baby”. Hillary reminds me so much of the old lady who tricked Mia Farrow into having Satan’s baby.

Cackle, cackle cackle!


15 posted on 09/04/2016 5:29:22 PM PDT by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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Remember the article about Hillary meeting with the medium and refusing to talk to Jesus?

God condemns necromancers, and those that use them. Our Lord Jesus would refuse to talk to anyone through a necromancer.

16 posted on 09/04/2016 5:29:42 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Hillary’s Christianity? Nonstop sarcastic laughing here.


17 posted on 09/04/2016 5:32:02 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl
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She's all but absent from the campaign. Besides, how do you miss something (her "faith") that was never there?

Her definition of a Christian, and mine, are radically different. She is no more a Christian than the man in the moon.

18 posted on 09/04/2016 5:35:37 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: El Cid

I know but I guess Hillary doesn’t.


19 posted on 09/04/2016 5:36:17 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: jazusamo

She doesn’t remember it.


20 posted on 09/04/2016 5:40:32 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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