I never, ever, ever believe high ranking democrats when they "convert." It is always just a poll-driven manipulation, like the Clintons' holding bibles.
Democrats are deceitful, amoral, and loathe Christians. I would love to be wrong here.
From the second link above:
“I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision of … of Jesus, and I’m sure it was Jesus.” Anticipating a raised eyebrow, she adds quickly: “But it wasn’t this crazy theological thing; it was just this figure who was the most perfected human being – full of light and full of love. And completely accessible. Any of us could be like that. There was light coming out of him holographically, simply because he was unclouded. But any of us could become that as human beings.”
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The experience has made her happier than ever. She’s anxious about the repercussions of going public on her life-altering moment, but insists that her commitment to feminism remains as strong as ever . “ I don’t want to be co-opted as the poster child for any religion or any agenda,” she adds. “ There are a lot of people out there just waiting for some little Jewish feminist to cross over. I so much want to distance this from Christianity. It has nothing to do with any religion whatsoever.” But in the meantime Wolf has been doing some intensive reading about what the rabbi Jesus had to say, as a Jew “not as this whole Christian construct but as a teacher and a social activist, as a rabbi and as a healer”.
"I never, ever, ever believe high ranking democrats when they "convert."
I only hope this is a genuine conversion, unlike the one Hanoi Jane purportedly experienced some years ago. She exhibited no obvious fruits of a spiritually regenerated life.
To be honest, if we use American conservatism as the gauge, not all political conservatives are Christians, and not all Christians are political conservatives. in fact, I argue that for some ethnic minorities (Chinese etc) there appears to be a direct correlation between being an evangelical Christian and a hardline socialist (except on moral issues like gay marriage, porn, and abortion).
Usually these brothers are deeply uncomfortable with free market beliefs and are pacifist to the core.
My father was a very wise man and once told me: If you mistrust someone completely, then they have as much control over you as if you trusted them blindly. Took me years to grasp what he meant, but when I got it, I got it.