I am not sure what the big deal is, though, even if Fred is a non-practicing Church of Christ memember, which evidence in this article seems to say otherwise. Bill Clinton was a non-parcticing Southern Baptist, practicing adultery instead. Not too sure of what Hillary, Giuliani, and McCain practice. Mitt Romney is practicing, but not Christianity. Obama is a non-practicing Black-separatist "Christian" (UCC) AND a non-practicing Muslim. Does anyone know what the Breck Girl practices or doesn't practice???
Bush practices his Christian faith and so does Carter. Some have doubts about them. I say let's vote on their voting records and proven stances on issues.
The only thing this accomplishes is to once again demonstrate that the secular Left in this country have absolutely no understanding of the Evangelical Right.
I believe Rudy is a Catholic, not sure about the others.
The Brentwood church is a group of Christians who are striving together to serve Jesus Christ. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, providing us with everything we need to know about life in God’s kingdom. The Christians at Brentwood regularly study together, pray together, and encourage one another in our walk with the Lord. We would be delighted to have you join us in these endeavors.
This is the statement on their web page, hardly what Barry’s church practices.
One of the first sane comments I have seen on the subject for a while. Politics and religion should not be mixed IMHO, a religious faith may give an indication of the candidate's character and how they may lean on certain issues but religion should not have any basis upon how people vote.
Does anyone here want their faith questioned because they don't fill out an attendance card or otherwise attend services regularly? I quit attending and contributing because of the abuse of the political system by most major church organizations. There might will be a larger number of truly faithful people not attending church than there are in regular services.
Harding University: The home of the Wilbur Mills Education Service Co-Op. No kidding. The liberal arts school is located in Searcy, Arkansas.
Seems like the liberals are scared to death of Fred.
What a pity.
Relationship with God is a personal thing. I don’t attend much church and I can 100% attribute that to the fact that my father is a Baptist Minister.
I saw the poster on hypocrisy, both in him and in the fine leaders of the churches he pastored.
Doesn’t mean I don’t love God. Doesn’t mean that I don’t love my country. Doesn’t mean I’m not conservative.
I’m not a big Mitt Romney fan, but to say Mormons are not christians is, in my opinion, wrong. The name of the demonination is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This is from Wikipaedia:
Adherents to the church (usually called Mormons, Latter-day Saints or LDS) believe that Jesus Christ leads the church by revelation given to the President of the Church, whom they consider to be a prophet. They consider themselves to be Christians, but do not consider themselves part of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions.
You know, all these little hit-piece non-stories make me think Fred has got some people scared. I’m starting to like the guy.
I believe that Bubba “practiced” his Southern Baptism while he was Arkansas governor. He discovered that the Little Rock services were televised and so he became a visible member of the choir.
It is a very conservative and fundamental denomination (they claim not to be a denomination at all) in general.
The UCC is radically different from the COC.
Barack Obama's church is a UCC church.
This is an old article that has been posted repeatedly.
If you read the original — not the one from WND — you’d see that it was written in a playful tone, not critical whatsoever of Thompson.
I'm too lazy to go look for the other thread, it's way down the roster by now, but here were the main points covered:
1. The perfesser is a screaming liberal whose "favorite politician" is Jimmy Carter. That in and of itself disqualifies anything the man has to say.
2. Since CofC congregations are largely independent, there are plenty that never "fill out a card". There are also many faithful members who, for whatever reason, never serve in the church offices listed.
3. Where somebody gets married has little or nothing to do with his religious beliefs . . . especially if he's a man. Marriages are almost always organized by the bride and her family, and usually held in her family's church. Some folks wind up getting married in a church simply because the sanctuary is big enough to hold the guests. And people change over time . . . my husband and I were married in an Episcopal church because that was my family's church. He was a Methodist at the time, later became Episcopalian, and then we both became Catholic. Anybody who said "they must be Episcopalian because they got married there" would be wrong, and doubly wrong in my husband's case.
I think the Breck Girl is United Methodist, but I may have him confused with another Marxist (Hitlery perhaps).
Where’s the “Not This Sh*t Again” graphic?
I really don’t care how active Fred is in his church, and if the Bible-thumpers can’t deal with it, I don’t know what to tell them anymore. I do know this:
-Fred is pro-life, albeit with a Federalist stance
-Fred is against embryonic stem-cell research
-Fred doesn’t believe in gay marriage, although he feels that on the state level, civil unions are OK if that particular state feels that they want it (which BTW is the status quo now)
If that’s not good enough, I don’t know what is.
Which obviously means that Fred Thompson's name is mud in my book and, if he thinks I'm going to vote for such a bald-faced heretic as himself, he'd just better think again. (/SARC!!!)
neither am I particularly but I go for my kids and I believe strongly.
church doesn't make a Chrisitan ...acceptance does.
Divide and conquer
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