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Harrison Ford: ‘I was raised Democrat’ and ‘my moral purpose was being a Democrat with the big D’
FOX ^ | 2/11/2023 | Whitlock

Posted on 02/12/2023 4:36:01 AM PST by Phoenix8

Asked about his philosophy in life, movie star Harrison Ford said this week that he was "raised a Democrat" and "my moral purpose was being a Democrat."

The Indiana Jones actor talked to the Hollywood Reporter about politics and religion, saying that as a younger man, "I didn’t have any religious construct, but I think nature and God are the same thing."

The interviewer noted that "one of your majors in college was philosophy" and wondered, "Has any of that stayed with you?"

Ford responded with a long answer weaving in religion and politics: "There’s a Protestant theologian named Paul Tillich who wrote that if you have trouble with the word ‘God,’ take whatever is central and most meaningful to your life and call that God."

He then volunteered, "My mother was Jewish, my father was Catholic, and I was raised Democrat — my moral purpose was being a Democrat with the big D."

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Yes I love his movies but he fits right in with the Main Stream Hollywood —A Democrat but perhaps not as extreme as most? Education in general is left as well.

Between the 2 there is little wonder so many of our youth are going left on us.

“ Putting a Number on Hollywood’s Perceived Liberalism One thing Trump and Clinton voters agree on: Hollywood is more liberal than the rest of the country”

“Democratic professors outnumber Republicans 9 to 1 at top colleges”.

1 posted on 02/12/2023 4:36:01 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8
Harrison Ford's profession is essentially to get all dressed up and play pretend. Why in hell would any sentiment being have the slightest interest in Harrison Ford's sophomoric theology?

See my recent reply concerning John Wayne:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4130441/posts


2 posted on 02/12/2023 4:42:34 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Phoenix8

He acted well but other than that ‘meh!’


3 posted on 02/12/2023 4:43:03 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Phoenix8

“I was raised Democrat — my moral purpose was being a Democrat with the big D”

The truth is here:

Exod. 32:8 They have made themselves a molten calf and bowed low to it and sacrificed to it, saying, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt’


4 posted on 02/12/2023 4:43:37 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Phoenix8
being a Democrat with the big D."

So, being democrat gives him diarrhea?

5 posted on 02/12/2023 4:44:28 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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"I didn’t have any religious construct, but I think nature and God are the same thing."

So, his god is Mother nature.? A fat lady flying around on pixie wings, with a magic wand..?

Good luck with that...

6 posted on 02/12/2023 4:45:24 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: nathanbedford

Thank you. You wrote what I was thinking.

‘Pod


7 posted on 02/12/2023 4:45:33 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Phoenix8
"There’s a Protestant theologian named Paul Tillich who wrote that if you have trouble with the word ‘God,’ take whatever is central and most meaningful to your life and call that God."

Well, that's certainly bad theology. I guess that's why Democrats worship government as god and why homosexuals worship perversion as a religion.

8 posted on 02/12/2023 4:46:31 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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I think nature and God are the same thing

There's his problem right there.

Nature has no moral foundation.

Nature is survival of the fittest.

9 posted on 02/12/2023 4:49:15 AM PST by occamrzr06
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To: nathanbedford

Yes that was a good one. John Wayne was Americana as was Elvis whom the liberals also went through a period of criticizing.

Trivia, did you know J.W. Only married Hispanic women? He was asked why and he said it wasn’t the type just happened to marry them. A white lie I think. Yet who cares, Latin women can be incredibly beautiful.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 4:50:08 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8
When times are soft, Democracy seems a wise and noble course.

When times are hard, the soft die.

11 posted on 02/12/2023 4:51:26 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (DemonRatz to Biden: You've outlived your uselessness. Buh-Bye!)
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To: Phoenix8

12 posted on 02/12/2023 4:51:31 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Phoenix8

More proof that democrats are mindless lemmings.


13 posted on 02/12/2023 4:51:37 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: occamrzr06
A bit of altruism makes a social group fitter but more than that is maladaptive.

Lend a hand for free, lend a coin at interest.

14 posted on 02/12/2023 4:55:44 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (DemonRatz to Biden: You've outlived your uselessness. Buh-Bye!)
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To: Phoenix8

I was raised democrat.

But, as I grew up, I got smarter.

Some people never grow up.

But, in Hollywood (or the entertainment industry), you’re not allowed to grow up.


15 posted on 02/12/2023 4:57:24 AM PST by adorno
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Correct!

"[...] I think nature and God are the same thing."

[...] "[...] if you have trouble with the word ‘God,’ take whatever is central and most meaningful to your life and call that God."

[...] my moral purpose was being a Democrat with the big D."

Forget that "nature is God" crap! That's a smokescreen! He actually believes that the Democratic Party and God are the same thing!

Regards,

16 posted on 02/12/2023 4:57:53 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Phoenix8

Does he realize his party is now a commie totalitarian party that demands he gives all his money to the government?


17 posted on 02/12/2023 4:58:00 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Phoenix8

He’s gotta say what he gotta say to keep a job.


18 posted on 02/12/2023 4:58:24 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
A bit of altruism makes a social group fitter but more than that is maladaptive.

Not true - if you're a colony of termites!

In the case of human beings - you are absolutely right!

Regards,

19 posted on 02/12/2023 4:59:53 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Phoenix8

I would argue Ford’s comments are representative of many (perhaps a majority) of liberals. Politics replacing religion, and without the moral restraints that accompany most religions. Thus we see an attitude develop where the ends justify the means, and no dissent can be tolerated.


20 posted on 02/12/2023 5:00:43 AM PST by NittanyLion
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