As always, his comments seem genuine. You can tell when someone is trying to trick you or play politics when they have a long speech with 'buts' and 'ifs' etc.. Thompson's answer is simple and to the point.
The MSM doesn’t like Fred and there are many Christian conservatives who think he’s insufficiently conservative or Christian, or both. Which is why they’re being tricked by the MSM into liking the LaRaza Socialist Huckabee.
I’m not electing a theologian. It is more important to me that the person is wise and has a good understanding of right and wrong than that he has right theology, even if I think his wrong theology is a danger to his own soul. I might pray for him and hope that he truly understands the gospel someday, but I can still vote for him so long as he has a traditional, Judeo-Christian understanding of right and wrong.
Church of Christ demands that their members attend regularly, unless ill or providently hindered.
Amen to what Fred said. I’d rather have Fred with his quiet faith than the Huckster who is attempting to use his religion as a weapon against Mitt Romney in Iowa.
A man who feels comfortable enough in his personal faith to not use it for political points or leverage. What a nice change of pace.
I’ve been on the edge for a while, but I’m almost positive I’m voting for Thompson now.
“The MSM does not like Fred.”
The MSM is open borders, so Thompson and Hunter are personna non grata.
“Here’s the test: Assume you are a social-values voter, perhaps a religious social values voter, and all you knew of the two major candidates was that one was from the South, married to the same woman all his life, considered himself “born again,” and was a regular church going member of the Baptist church whose sister did evangelical work, while the other was a divorced, non-church going former actor who lived in California. Okay, given that’s all you know, where’s your vote going?”
Oh and one more thing - it’s 1980.
And I too donate whenever I get the chance. Get thee (in general, not specific to you, rightin) to http://www.fred08.com/ and donate a chunk or even sign up and then you can call Iowa voters to try and persuade them from this Huckster. There isn't a lot of time - and it's an innovative thing that Thompson's campaign is doing, letting you call one by one, right now, voters in early primary states, to help Fred out. It doesn't cost a cent.
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Church attendance? Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton attended church regularly and toted around big ole bibles. As long as Fred governs as a conservative I couldn't care less how often he attends church. ...or even if he attends at all.
After all the Christian religious leaders that have been caught engaging in gay sex, adultery, sexual abuse or just plain stealing their followers’ money, I am sick of all this preoccupation with religion in politics.
There is no way to know what’s in a person’s heart or mind on religious matters, so religion should be ignored when it comes to politics. It’s too easy lie about one’s faith and to live a lie regarding one’s religion. Not to mention that even those sincerely religious sin and make mistakes all the time.
Any of us could attend any church, say all the right things, look devout, give money and not really believe in that church at all.
Candidates have a history, a record of deportment and action, and positions on the issues. They should be judged on those matters. Their religious beliefs cannot be truly known, that would require the ability to read their minds.
Dr. Dobson ain’t gonna like this.
And I honestly don’t care.
CNN - Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
But only if you’re a Republican.
“The MSM does not like Fred.”
The problem is that some of the blowhards that have declared themselves our “leaders” in Christianity don’t like Fred either.
The MSM is okay with Satan and Satan is ok with them.
Isn’t missing mass a sin. Maybe that is only for Catholics. I don’t think I have missed a mass in my life.