Posted on 02/20/2020 8:30:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Although the left castigates conservatives for bringing God into the conversation, the reality is that, in this election cycle, there's only one candidate who relentlessly paints himself as being on the side of God, and that candidate is Pete Buttigieg. He was at it again Tuesday night, during a televised town hall, when he insisted both that God is non-partisan and that there is no way Christians could support Trump.
It began when a self-identified Democrat and Episcopalian Christian asked how to make it clear that "you can be both," in a world in which "the right thinks they own" Christianity. Buttigieg had an answer:
First of all, I'm glad to be with a fellow Episcopalian and I agree. Look, it starts with sending the message that God does not belong to a political party. And by the way, it's also important to make clear that the presidency and the Constitution and my presidency will belong to people of every religion and of no religion equally. This is not about imposing my faith on anybody.
But, I'll say, like you, I find a message in Scripture that is very different from what the political right wants to talk about all the time. A lot about poverty, a lot about compassion, a lot about humility that I seek in my imperfect way to live up to and that does have implications for how I will approach public office.
And the time has come to send a message that people of faith have a choice and if you belong to a Christian tradition, or any moral or religious tradition, that emphasizes making yourself useful to the oppressed and standing with and identifying with the prisoner and welcoming the stranger. Stranger, by the way, is another word for immigrant.
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You’ve got to be quite a sophist to find endorsement of sodomy in the Bible. But people don’t believe such arguments because they think them to be the truth ... they believe them in order to validate their sins and assuage their guilt.
I’m not religious, and even I know that his statement is hogwash.
Oh the irony of a Democrat with the nerve to position himself as on the side of God. If I were religious I would wonder why he has not been struck by lightning.
Some Christian ... supports abortion without restrictions and is “married” to another man.
For me, it’s more about abortion.
Petey misquotes the Bible. Often
I hope the anti-Trump pontiff in the Vatican doesn’t decide to announce before the election that Catholics should not vote for Trump—I don’t think it would cause Trump to lose but it would do a lot of harm to the Church, but Pope Francis’ American advisors may be reckless enough to ignore that.
Butt must be reading Bible Version 2.0.
Title needs a correction . . .
Pete Buttigieg is running as the great ANTI-Christian savior of America.
Sweet Pete’s platform: “A chicken in every pot, and Truvada for everybody!”
I don't see a lot of humility in this guy. He comes across as very arrogant.
He wasn’t born in a country that used to be in the Old Roman Empire.
I'm a multi-tasker myself, I rank immigration and abortion to be the most urgent and most important issues, respectively. His being homosexual is not an issue; his supporting the gay agenda is.
His attacks on traditional Christian morality is highly offensive, but he differs not at all from any of the left on that.
Also, he is very smug and self-righteous, which would tick me off even if I agreed with him.
TRUMP 2020
RE: I don’t see a lot of humility in this guy. He comes across as very arrogant.
Well, at least you’re not getting any objections about using the wrong pronouns to refer to Mayor Pete.... YET.
He is well coached. I’m positive he is the deep state plant. His “Christianity” is just another way to fool people about what he is. There is nothing about him that appears genuine.
ANTI-Christ, maybe.
The father of lies has many agents.
Remember how Cruz showed up in the Midwest and did his evangelist impersonation?
Same thing but more Gay and less real.
CINO most likely- He has created a religion in his own image- He does NOT follow the Christian religion- He has created God in his own image- He wants religion on his terms and not on God’s terms- therefor he doesn’t worship God- He Demands that God worship him-
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