Why Sarah Palin's Speech Will Not Win Over All Evangelicals
I doubt they will drop their snakes long engough to vote regardless.
Posted on 09/04/2008 7:58:19 AM PDT by mathprof
Who is Alan Wolfe?
From Wikipedia:
Earlier in his career, Wolfe was a member of the collective that put out the Marxist-oriented journal, Kapitalistate, whose pages featured articles by such writers as Poulantzas, Claus Offe, Ralph Miliband, and Bob Jessop. By the early 1980s, Wolfe’s politics had become more centrist.
Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wolfe
“I teach at a Catholic university.”
Boston College is not Catholic—it is Jesuit...Has their theology dept signed JPII’s mandatum???
What they really are is a pack of lesbians that want to be nuns and leftist that want to use “social justice” as a mechanism to promote left wing causes.
I'm a Roman Catholic and I'll throw my lot in with the Baptist and the Assemblies of God and the REAL evangelical faiths any day.
This twit comes across as a self-styled Margaret Mead studying traditional Christians as if they are exotic primitive tribal people. The Catholic University system has been infected with the black mold of secular humanism. How tragic.
He is surprised to find out evangelicals and other Christians are concerned for the environment and their fellowmen and women? He clearly doesn’t understand the Christian faith. The difference between liberals and Christians is that liberals work toward their ideals by imposing their ideas of paradise on the people through taxation, restrictive laws, intimidation and other equally repugnant means—all in the pursuit of their “worthy goals” of course. Christians follow the dictates of their Founder by working to change the hearts of their brothers and sisters and thereby indirectly contributing to a more just, kind and sensible citizenry. As one Christian leader stated, “we take the slum out of the person and he takes himself out of the slum” and this is accomplished by example, love, respect and patience rather than force.
“These are people who disagree with Barack Obama’s position on abortion but respect him as a Christian.”
All three of them have doubts about Sarah, but they should come around.
“But I have been taken aback by how many evangelicals to whom I have spoken who think deeply about the obligations we human beings have toward each other, take seriously a command to lead lives of good purpose, and resist having their faith corrupted by the temptations of money and power.”
This “teacher” is a dufus!
The dopes are coming out of the woodwork.
Someone with Obama's position on abortion is NOT a Christian. Period. It doesn't matter what he considers himself. It's what God thinks of him.
Alan Wolfe is a fool and a liar as well, but that's obvious.
He claims also, and perhaps not surprisingly, that he didn't expect evangelicals to be supporting charity. ????
His immediate hatred of conservatives (see it in his language and terms such as “country-club”) show that he has NO understanding of what he (claims to) be teaching. I cannot imagine any more of a waste of time, money, and ink than to take a course in religion under a “man” who claims to have no religion.
But one who worships the god earth anyway. Who cannot see Obama’s lies for they are.
What a goof.
I suppose he will next tell us that that other stalwart Jesuit institution, Georgetown, is also a Catholic university. They sure don’t act like it.
Alan Wolfe is a blowhard, did anyone see the hit job he did on Russell Kirk? I take what he has to say with a grain of salt - he belongs to the demographic of graying liberal “Christians” who are seeing their dreams of a liberal Church go up in smoke.
No offense to my Catholic FRiends here but don't yall think this guy needs to be fired?
I stopped after the first 3 sentences
This was posted on a website supporting Obama/Biden...so what do you expect? I can’t believe Catholics would agree with a baby killer, but from reading some of the blogs on that site, they do.
Wolfe is right...those who are dedicated leftists and still fooling themselves into thinking the party of Harry Truman still exists might vote for Obama.
Those are very, very, very few.
Basically, the small cadre of self-identified liberal evangelicals will not like Palin, not that I ever expected them to.
Or even all blacks.
The New Republic people are fools, clueless, or being crassly manipulative. I'll go with door #3.
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