It is just like Clinton carrying around that 12 pound bible for the cameras. The Media and the Democrats knew that he didn't really mean it.
Posted on 11/01/2004 3:43:50 AM PST by SkyPilot
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct 31 (AFP) - Democratic nominee John Kerry on Sunday pledged to heal America's "wounds" as he preached to African American worshippers in the crucial swing state of Ohio, two days before the toss-up US election.
Kerry, at the altar of the Shiloh Baptist church, tempered his raw meat political message with lessons from the Bible, to chide the social and economic policies of his opponent, President George W. Bush.
"As the scripture teaches us, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and they will soar on wings like eagles and they will run and not grow weary and they will walk and not grow faint," Kerry said whipping up cheers from the congregation.
"That's what we are going to do over these next two days and once we have done that job, for the next four years we are going to work out what we need to do to heal the wounds of this country, to be one America," Kerry said.
"We are going to get this done, let's make it happen, let's walk in the footsteps of the Lord."
Kerry implied that Bush's policies on health care, unemployment benefits and overtime pay, did not square with the president's overt Christianity and preference for faith-based social services.
Before arriving at the Baptist church, Kerry took communion at a Dayton Roman Catholic church.
While most worshippers applauded him, one unidentified woman stood up, collected her husband and walked out, muttering, "I won't spend a moment with that man," testimony to the divisions cleaving America before the election.
Kerry fired up his campaign Sunday for a last 48-hour dash through the battlegrounds of his bitter, polarising wrestle for the White House with Bush.
His appearance in church fit with his strategy of pressing for a high turnout among African Americans who vote overwhelmingly Democratic, but according to some evidence have yet to be inspired by his campaign.
Kerry's schedule next took him to New Hampshire, another battleground state, before he was due to make his last stand in Florida, which as in the besmirched 2000 election, could dictate the destiny of the White House.
Kerry was to stump on election eve Monday in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Amen!!
That's a good woman! :) Too bad she's taken.
One of the major criticisms launched against the Bush administration is that Bush is too religious. The media takes every opportunity to lampoon Bush's moral compass as evidence of his 'rigid inflexibility'
Bush's simple accounting of his faith is that he was saved by grace, is sustained by prayer and that Jesus changed his heart. To the crowned heads of Europe, the godless United Nations, and the American liberal left wing, that means, 'not too bright'.
It may also be actual FEAR as in their hearts they may KNOW the truth but do not want to face it. Envy is also detected.
I think Lurch has earned himself a big "WOE to them/him" from what I've read.
BTW, I am curious as to why he can campaign in a church when our conservative pastors don't dare speak the name of the candidate they support. How exactly does that work?
Where's Ron Reagan and his "(RWR) didn't wear his religion on his sleeve" comment, now that the religion is on the other sleeve?
It is just like Clinton carrying around that 12 pound bible for the cameras. The Media and the Democrats knew that he didn't really mean it.
Kerry quoting scripture makes me cringe also!!!
"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
So then, you will know them by their fruits.
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter."
Matthew 7:15-21
The antithesis of the Bible can be seen in what John Dewey wrote in the Humanist Manifesto I (a set of beliefs based on man trying to be autonomous from God and making himslef his own god.) "No deity will save us, we must save ourselves". Nearly all of Kerry positions mirror those expressed in the Humnanist Manifesto I & II.
Kerry's tree clearly does not produce good fruit. A large part of his campaign is based on trying to make me covet anothers property because they earn more money then I do. He told us in the second debate that he will use my tax dollars to dismember innocent babies. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Not sure I know exactly what you are referring to (self-inflicted).
Would you mind explaining?
Puke Alert nexttime. Okay?
no, does that bother you?
God is not mocked.<<<
Amen---let us pray He has vengeance tomorrow.
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Ohhh my....
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
The dufus didn't even know who he was!
I hope Kerry gets what he asked for--LET'S CRUCIFY HIM TOMORROW!!!
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/Live%20What%20I%20Believe.html
What.....no pix from "The Devil's Advocate?"
I saw part of this on CSPAN yesterday. It was not nice.
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