“I thought about trying to explain to you why you are insulting to people like myself who support Huckabee, who are conservative evangelicals, and who are very well educated, but then you lump Rick Warren and Joel Osteen together....so I shall just leave you to your slander”
I said a certain kind of Evangelical, not all Evangelicals, and the Huckster is just the same kind of Evangelical as is Joel Osteen and Rick Warren, the global warming is a serious problem, illegals should be given a break type of Evangelicals, the touchy-feely kind. Now, if you fit that type of Evangelical, the Huckster kind, then you are in the wrong party or you’ve been snookered by a con artist into believing the Huckster is a true conservative. He’s not, not by a longshot.
And I might add, that certain kind of Evangelical seems to have no problems calling Mitt Romney’s religion a cult, and slander him as often and as loudly as possible. Check out all of the hate Mitt threads that have appeared on this website, primarily dominated by that certain kind of Evangelical. So look in the mirror to see if you fit into my definition of a certain kind of Evangelical. I’m suspicious right off the bat because you say you support the Huckster. But each to their own.
Now I'm going to really confuse you.
I believe that Mormonism IS a cult according to the criteria described in the book mentioned earlier on this thread, but I would have no problem voting for a Mormon for POTUS if he were a conservative.
I loved Rick Warren's book and have gone through two extended studies of it in my Sunday School class. I adore Joel Osteen and listen to or record him every Sunday and I have even been to see him in person.
I am a very active member of a mainline Methodist Church, but I was raised a Presbyterian minister's daughter. I have many beliefs that you might refer to as fundamentalist and I very much enjoy Bible studies, particularly those by Beth Moore.
I have a Masters Degree in Biology and have been teaching both Biology and Medical Laboratory Technology for over 20 years, but I do not believe that Global Warming is anything other than a natural phenomenon that man has no power to cause or to stop were it really the crisis that Al Gore claims it is. I do not agree with Rick Warren on this issue, and I have never even heard Joel mention it at all.
At the same time, I believe that were Huckabee to become the GOP nominee for POTUS, it would be a disaster! He is NOT a conservative and his views on immigration and the WOT alone should disqualify him in any thinking person's mind for the office of president. He is the worst of both worlds - he might allow an unqualified Dem to win the WH, but he would also be a Republican version of Jimmy Carter were he to be elected POTUS. We can NOT afford to make such a mistake at this critical point in the history of our country just because one man is able to fool politically uniformed evangelical Christians into voting for him.