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One Love
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One Love
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| Posted 11/1/2012 8:46 AM (GMT -6) | | Mitt
Romney
Is
An
Unrepentant
Liar
(but he's White, so...)
This year’s presidential election is shaping up to have possibly the nation’s most racially polarized electorate ever. More than three-quarters of blacks and Latinos support President Obama’s reelection. And a growing majority of whites are expected to vote for Mitt Romney.
A Washington Post-ABC national poll found that 60% of whites could vote for Romney with only about 37% supporting Obama. Meanwhile, several polls show Obama garnering about 75% of the Latino vote and more than 95% of the black vote.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/1/2012 8:49:29 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/1/2012 8:59 AM (GMT -6) | | Hear that sound?
That's the deafening silence of any Evangelicals calling Romney on his blatent, insulting lies.
SCREW American Evangelicalism!
This was the last straw for me. For real. It was bad enough finding out that over half of Evangelicalism is unapologetically mired in straight up anti-Chalcedonian heresy...but this??
Billy Graham has told evangelicals that they shouldn’t hesitate to vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has a list of faiths that they consider cults on their website. Now, after much consideration, they have removed the Mormon Church from that list.
Sheesh...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203707604578090962267200892.html
Mr. Reed notes that in several opinion polls—NBC, Pew and ABC—the percentage of evangelicals claiming to support Mr. Romney has been in the mid-70s. "We estimate that in 2008 there were 350,000 evangelicals who didn't vote in Ohio," Mr. Reed says. "Obama carried the state by 260,000." If that support of 70% or more holds for Mr. Romney in Ohio, and if the share of the evangelical vote increases by a point or two, then the challenger could carry the Buckeye State.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/21/evangelicals-romney-campaign_n_1992779.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/25/nation/la-na-evangelicals-20121026
As of early October, Romney was ahead of President Obama among white evangelical Protestants, 73% to 21%, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. That is the same percentage that Republican John McCain captured among white evangelicals in 2008, but below the 79% that President George W. Bush, a self-described born-again Christian, received in 2004.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/1/2012 9:15:06 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/1/2012 9:14 AM (GMT -6) | | |
American Evangelicalism.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/1/2012 9:18:20 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/1/2012 9:20 AM (GMT -6) | | Charisma’ filled with spirit of Romney campaign, endorses mendacious Mitt with dishonest column
November 1, 2012 By Fred Clark
Stephen Strang has crammed almost as many falsehoods into his endorsement of Mitt Romney — “‘Charisma’ Publisher Urges Americans to Vote for Romney” — as Romney himself manages to pack into a campaign speech.
If you’re not familiar with Charisma and Strang, here are the relevant points:
1. Charisma is big, with a circulation of about 275,000 (more than twice as big as Christianity Today), and it’s the primary paper of record for American Christians in the Pentecostal and charismatic branches of evangelicalism. The ads — particularly the smaller ones — are a depressing tour of the most credulous and cynically corrupt grifters in the revival racket. Every Gantry-esque Benny Hinn- or Cindy Jacobs-type huckster fleecing the flock by hosting a conference or revival wants to buy an ad in Charisma. And Stephen Strang is always happy to sell them one.
2. Strang has a ton of money and influence in evangelicalism. He is not a fringe figure, but he promotes some far-right whackaloon fringe ideas. Think of him as a print version of Pat Robertson — too nutty to take seriously, but too established and influential (i.e., too rich) to dismiss.
And here is a third point, massively underscored by this endorsement column: Stephen Strang is not an honest man. Nor does he care about being an honest man.
Consider:
The list is astounding of ways [Obama] has diminished religious freedom, like celebrating Muslim holidays but making no mention of God in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation, or not having a White House observance of the National Day of Prayer. David Barton documents many more examples on his website.
Yes, David Barton has many, many more such examples, because David Barton is a notorious con-artist and liar. Barton’s other examples — like the two Strang cites — are also false.
Stephen Strang is bearing witness. That witness is false.
But Stephen Strang isn’t done bearing false witness:
Obamacare forces religious institutions to provide abortions in health insurance or morning after medications.
This is not true. The Affordable Care Act does not force religious institutions to provide abortion coverage. It does not force anyone to provide abortion coverage.
The original act did not provide abortion coverage, and then the redundant Stupak amendment underlined that in bold type. Charisma covered the debate over the Stupak amendment, so Stephen Strang knows that what he wrote there is not true.
Stephen Strang is deliberately lying.
The hackery and the lying continue throughout the remainder of Strang’s column — in which he also commends Lou Engle and Bishop Harry Jackson as credible and reasonable sources of political wisdom.
It is disturbing and dangerous that somebody as manipulative and dishonest as Stephen Strang is permitted to wield such influence in American Christianity.
And it is beyond depressing that “mainstream” evangelical leaders will never criticize or challenge a shameless liar and partisan hack like Strang because he’s too rich to question, and because they are too busy patrolling the “progressive” border of the tribe, parsing every statement for anything that smacks of liberalism.
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One Love
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 11/1/2012 12:18 PM (GMT -6) | | That's why I'm voting for this guy
Brandon
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.--Saint Augustine
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One Love
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| Posted 11/3/2012 9:53 AM (GMT -6) | | THANK YOU!!
I'm glad SOMEONE said this!
"My Take: Billy Graham and Ralph Reed are putting politics before God"
Until quite recently, many evangelicals saw Mormonism as a dangerous cult spreading false theology and dooming its followers to hell. In fact, only after Romney showed up for a meet and greet with Billy Graham in North Carolina earlier this month did the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association erase a reference to Mormonism as a “cult."
Did Mormons all of a sudden change their theology? Did Graham change his definition of a “cult”? Of course not. It just became politically expedient for Graham to declassify Mormonism, given the fact that Romney, a Mormon, was the presidential nominee of his beloved GOP.
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I used to believe that the purpose of the religious right was to infuse American politics with Christian politicians and Christian politics. I no longer believe that. The purpose of the religious right is to use the Christian God for political purposes. Why any Christian, conservative or liberal, can say "Amen" to that is beyond me.
I am perfectly happy to see Reed stump for Romney in Ohio and Graham plump for Romney in an ad in The Wall Street Journal. Just don’t tell me they are doing so as Christians. They are doing so as shills for the GOP.
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