Two Personages say, "Stay out of bars!"
Posted on 02/17/2016 9:40:08 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The evangelical vote will be split widely among the candidates, but Trump has done perhaps the best job of striking a chord with conservatives on issues that have frustrated them like immigration and terrorism, said Jim Guth, political science professor at Furman University.
Evangelicals also have begun to shy away from backing candidates solely for their religious beliefs, he said.
"George Bush, for example, could say all the right words and share a lot of their faith at the same time that he might expand the role of the federal government or other things that they don't approve of," Guth said.
The change in mindset may reflect a political maturation of evangelicals who realize no candidate is ideal, said Lindsay, who is now president of Gordon College, a small Christian liberal arts college near Boston. It's possible evangelicals as a bloc could mobilize around him, but Trump will have to make significant inroads with those cosmopolitan evangelicals for that to happen, he said.
"It would be a significant departure for values voters to rally around a candidate who seems to use language that is so antithetical to their values," he said.
By and large, Upstate pastors have shied away from political involvement this election cycle, which could lead those values voters to make up their own mind, Guth said.
Guth's students at Furman have listened at local churches for political speech from the pulpit and are hearing little, he said.
"The 'let's just stay clear of this' attitude seems to be prevalent this year," he said.
That's created a vacuum that Trump has more than filled.
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said Lindsay, who is now president of Gordon College, a small Christian liberal arts college near Boston...
...and yet he speaks for South Carolinians.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Two Corinthians walk into a bar....
Hank
Two Corinthians, a Canadian, a Cuban and a New Yorker walk into a bar..........
You still owe me for that wager we made about Trump dropping in the polls, Hank.
Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
Obviously not Baptists!
German. Because that’s how my german grandfather read it his entire life
He had a marker in his Bible on his 80th birthday stating he was also celebrating finish reading his bible through 8 times.
It was also. One John etc. He was born in the US but family spoke broken English in home. Some patterns from the old country stay with family for generations. Grandpas family came from same region of Germany as the Trumpf We actually have a great aunt who married one.
I think that a lot of Evangelicals are being scared off by the Jim Jonesish turn that Cruz’s campaign has taken. Cruz has had Glenn Beck running around saying that Cruz has been sent by God to guide us thru the Rapture. Now Beck is saying that the death of Scalia is part of God’s plan to elect Cruz. Then there was Heidi who said that Ted would “show us the face of God,” and his father who said that Ted was “the anointed one.”
That sound more like something you’d hear coming from a lunatic holed up in a compound, and who might be mixing up Kool-Aid for his followers to drink when he doesn’t get the nomination.
“I think that a lot of Evangelicals are being scared off by the Jim Jonesish turn that Cruz’s campaign has taken.”
That, the mad Mormon cheapjack, and daddy’s Seven Mountain Mandate. But foundational to all of that, the abuse of Christianity as a taxi service to move him along.
True, Baptists would sit under a tree with a flask. Wherever you have four deacons you have a fifth. Ok, this was good natured ribbing. Lighten up
Isn’t that the truth. A Jim Bakker reincarnation. Or is he Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton?
Whatever, those men were creepy. Really, really creepy. And this is before Dr. Gene Scott is considered. One cannot help but make and see the comparisons.
Two Personages say, "Stay out of bars!"
A Rabbi, Priest and Clergyman walk into a bar.
The bartenders says, “What is THIS? Some kind of joke?”
;-)
This diminishes the intellect of "values" voters if the writer or anyone else thinks they judge someone solely on whether they say a naughty word.
George Bush is running again? I thought he was term limited out?
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