My "vacation" turned out to be longer than expected (although my account showed that my Posting Privileges were suspended for 24 hours, I was actually unable to post for several days... perhaps someone was asleep at the switch, who knows).
At any rate, however, I am very pleasantly surprised to see myself, and FtD and Revelation911, fighting together on the same side of an issue -- other than grousing about the latest abominations of the latest New Revised International Multicultural Gender-Equalized Tolerance-Enhanced Translation of the Holy Bible, that's a pleasure I rarely enjoy!
Of course, don't look now... but Laurence M. Vance, the premier Anti-Calvinist KJV-Onlyist in America today (author of The Other Side of Calvinism and King James, His Bible, and Its Translators) and certainly one of FtD's favorites, is himself a huge fan of Ron Paul's candidacy for the Republican Nomination:
....Ron Paul is a veteran. He is a physician. He currently represents the 14th district in Texas (south of Houston) in the U.S. House of Representatives, a seat which he has held since 1997. He previously represented Texas’s 22nd district in 1976 and again from 1979 to 1985. Dr. Paul was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988. He is the former honorary chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus. He consistently scores a perfect 100 on The New American magazine’s "Conservative Index." He has received many awards and honors during his career in Congress from organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Council for a Competitive Economy, and Young Americans for Freedom.
But will he be the candidate of the Christian Right? By the Christian Right’s own criteria, their candidate ought to be Ron Paul.... (etc.)
So, while I was initially unsurprised to see many Presbyterians and Calvinistic Baptist types joining our happy (and ever-growing) Great Ron Paul Ping List, I suppose I should hardly be shocked to see our Religion Forum Fundamentalists of the Arminian persuasion gathering in our corner as well.
Nice to have you gents on board. God bless you and yours.
Best, OP
Nice find on Vance. That KJV history book looks interesting. RP turns up unexpected supporters constantly. It’s kind of amazing, at least to me.
in my email this afternoon
November 5, 2007
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