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Capitalismo de Dios
Oral Current History of Sunday's Sermon | 6/20/2004 | Bob Schmidt personal story

Posted on 06/22/2004 6:14:40 PM PDT by NormalGuy

Sunday my wife and I went to the church of one of her friends. We got there early, during the Chinese service. They were preaching and praying against Godless Communism while planning how to ship more Bibles to their underground churches.

Then the Spanish service started. After some rousing music the pastor gave his Father's Day sermon. I heard his theme as: "El Hombre de valor es productivo capitalismo en Dios." He then elaborated on how a real man is productive in having children and raising them to honor God and to use the talents God gave them, etc. (I loosely translate "hombre de valor" = "real man")

In both Chinese & Hispanic congregations I'd estimate 50% of adults not citizens, 20% illegals. Some were Contras who fought the Commies in Central America. Of the citizens, I'd bet few are registered to vote.... and this in the Chicago suburb with the strongest GOP outreach to minorities.


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Is there a disconnect between religion and politics? . . . Between religion and political discourse?
1 posted on 06/22/2004 6:14:43 PM PDT by NormalGuy
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To: TheRightGuy; DMZFrank; Chi-townChief; cfrels; SJackson; unspun; RedWing9
Should we actively recruit in ethnic churches, which seem more conservative than main-line churches?

The Chinese and Spanish services were a big contrast to the Roman Catholic mass I attended earlier this same Sunday. In that mass, the priest preached against how the bishops had just come out with a stronger position on communion to abortion supporters.

2 posted on 06/22/2004 6:22:08 PM PDT by NormalGuy (If not Normal, Spin it)
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Is there a disconnect between religion and politics? . . . Between religion and political discourse?

Let's not all lose our heads over this.

3 posted on 06/22/2004 8:51:21 PM PDT by TheRightGuy (ERROR CODE 018974523: Random Tagline Compiler Failure)
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