Posted on 12/05/2017 11:17:37 AM PST by daniel1212
No man can serve two masters, the Bible teaches, but Mike Pence is giving it his all....that he recognizes the absurdity of his situation; that he knows just what sort of man he’s working for; that while things may look bad now, there is a grand purpose at work here, a plan that will manifest itself in due time. Let not your hearts be troubled, he seems to be saying. I’ve got this...
Richard Land, the president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary and one of Trump’s faith advisers, told me. “I don’t know anyone who’s more consistent in bringing his evangelical-Christian worldview to public policy.”...
The Pences were devout Irish-Catholic Democrats, and Mike and his brothers served as altar boys..
Pence agonized over his “calling.” He talked about entering the priesthood, but ultimately felt drawn instead to politics, a realm where he believed he could harness God’s power to do good. It was obvious to his fraternity brothers, Murphy told me, that Pence wanted to be president one day.
Pence underwent two conversions in college that would shape the rest of his life. The first came in the spring of 1978, when he road-tripped to Kentucky with some evangelical friends for a music festival billed as the Christian Woodstock... Pence found himself sitting in a light rain, yearning for a more personal relationship with Christ than was afforded by the ritualized Catholicism of his youth. “My heart really, finally broke with a deep realization that what had happened on the cross in some infinitesimal way had happened for me,” Pence recounted in March 2017. It was there, he said, that he gave his life to Jesus...Of the 15 Cabinet secretaries Trump picked at the start of his presidency, eight were evangelicals.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
And after which we can say we are blessed to have this exceptional believer, if with faults, as VP. And perhaps more by God's grace in the future. The picture is over the top though.
More excerpts to follow.
The yearbooks from his undergraduate days are filled with photos that portray Pence as a kind of campus cliché: the dark-haired, square-jawed stud strumming an acoustic guitar on the quad as he leads a gaggle of coeds in a sing-along...
in March 2017. It was there, he said, that he gave his life to Jesus.
The other conversion was a partisan one. Pence had entered college a staunch supporter of Jimmy Carter, and he viewed the 1980 presidential election as a contest between a “good Christian” and a “vacuous movie star.” But President Ronald Reagan won Pence over—instilling in him an appreciation for both movement conservatism and the leadership potential of vacuous entertainers that would serve him well later in life...
it was just a year after Pence’s born-again experience in Kentucky that Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a national movement that aimed to turn Christian voters into a pavement-pounding political force. In the decades that followed, white evangelicals forged an alliance with conservative Catholics to fight abortion, gay marriage, and an encroaching secularism that they saw as a threat to their religious freedom. With conservative believers feeling under siege, denominational differences began to melt away...
But he was unable to defeat the Democratic incumbent, Phil Sharp. Pence tried again two years later, this time ditching the bike in favor of vicious attack ads...
Afterward, a humbled Pence attempted public repentance by personal essay. His article, “Confessions of a Negative Campaigner,” ran in newspapers across the state. “Christ Jesus came to save sinners,” the essay began, quoting 1 Timothy, “among whom I am foremost of all.”
With two failed congressional bids behind him, Pence decided to change tack. In 1992, he debuted a conservative talk-radio show that he described as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf...”
Despite Pence’s on-air culture-warring, he rarely came off as disagreeable. He liked to describe himself as “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” and he was careful to show respect for opposing viewpoints. “Nobody ever left an interview not liking Mike,” says Scott Uecker, the radio executive who oversaw Pence’s show...
My support for Israel stems largely from my personal faith. In the Bible, God promises Abraham, ‘Those who bless you I will bless, and those who curse you I will curse.” He became a champion of the fight to restrict abortion and defund Planned Parenthood...
By 2017, white evangelicals would tell pollsters that Christians faced more discrimination in America than Muslims did... “Many evangelicals were experiencing the sense of an almost existential threat,” Russell Moore, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told me. It was only a matter of time, he said, before cultural elites’ scornful attitudes would help drive Christians into the arms of a strongman like Trump. “I think there needs to be a deep reflection on the left about how they helped make this happen.”
After seven chaotic days, Pence caved and signed a revised version of the religious-freedom bill—but by then it was too late....
Coming into the game, Trump had formed an opinion of the Indiana governor as prudish, stiff, and embarrassingly poor, according to one longtime associate. Pence, meanwhile, had spent the primaries privately shaking his head at Trump’s campaign-trail antics, and had endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for the nomination. But as the two men played golf,..
When Pence was in Congress, he instructed his aides to have a “servant’s attitude” when dealing with constituents.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/
This is a poisonous article. If you read it carefully, it really hits all the cliches and slurs urban leftist elites have about evangelicals - stupid, ideologically rigid, blind faith leading them to hypocrisy and disaster.
This is what I've been telling conservative friends who still think Republican means the same thing as conservative.
Trump is the 3-D chess player with the 30,000 foot view playing the long game. "Let not your heart be troubled."
Ugh! Wading through 8,000 words rife with the sneering anti-Christ imperiosity of the rabid left.
Who needs it?
I’ve already formed an opinion of Pence based on his body language. He has an annoying tendency to shake his head “no” while he’s asserting something. Reminds me of Jeb Bush like that.
[that he recognizes the absurdity of his situation; that he knows just what sort of man he’s working for]
When I read that part, I went looking.
I believe I found that the author is a garden-variety BYU NeverTrumper. And given that he’s from BYU, I’d be willing to wager he’s a devotee of Cheetos Face Glenn Beck.
Pence may be a nice guy, a good conservative & Christian, but he is totally lacking in charisma. I really doubt he’ll end up as Pres unless Trump is impeached or has to resign. Then he’ll be a place-holder like Ford.
I saw that floating around NYC on Thanksgiving.
A Romney man, at least. But if you read the article, you’ll pick up bits and snatches of leftspeak throughout; dog whistles tucked in here and there telegraphing to his leftist readers “I’m not being taken by this schmuck.”
The article fairly reeks with that tell-tale air of smug superiority that is the hallmark — or urine stain — of the torrid left.
That package looks like it got a bit squashed during delivery.
A removal of President Trump would require a majority vote in the House and a two-thirds vote in the Senate—highly unlikely. The efforts to impeach him only serve to show that many of the people behind those efforts are quite impulsive, dishonest and corrupt.
Something seems a bit off.....
There is only ONE Trump. We will likely never see another.
This means it will be back to business as usual in a post-Trump era, with more of the same climbers still seeking power, owned and beholden to Wall Street and foreign interests again, those limp spined R’s parading as Goliath, hiding their petty coats and ruffles.
We will be lucky to ever *be* a majority again, and the Dems will eventually reverse everything Trump, just as Trump reversed all things Obama.
We are so screwed.
Yes, and we’d better fight for THIS President - because there won’t be another one like him.
We coulda been stuck with Crooked Hillary .... and they’re STILL trying to make it happen somehow.
He looks like he shifts his stance
Something could be shifting - I can’t watch that wacko Erin Burnett to see what he says.
But the first paragraph of his “article” tells me all I need to know about him.
In the Mormon “god” - the “god” and his wife rule a planet — the current one being near the Kolob star ... wherever that is. From the same guy who gave us “The Land of Moron”. - i.e. Joseph Smith.
Just in case anyone thinks I’m making this up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(Book_of_Mormon)
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