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April 15, 2008

Faith Forum Gets Absurd

by @ 3:24 pm. Filed under election 2008, religion

Am I the only one who found this last weekend’s Faith Forum at Messiah College in Pennsylvania to be an excruciating display of humiliating and yet pointless pandering?

America is having a presidential election. We’re not selecting an interim minister for a church. Yet, religious groups have pushed to be granted the power to submit presidential candidates to an onslaught of religious test, interrogations designed to see whether the candidates are sufficiently Christian to be President.

For a reason I wish I didn’t understand, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agreed to go along with the parade of shameful faith-based nonsense.

Here’s just a short selection of the irrelevant nonsense that came from the Messiah College team of inquisitors (read the rest):

“You said in an interview last year that you believe in the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. And you have actually felt the presence of the Holy Spirit on many occasions. Share some of those occasions with us.

CLINTON: You know, I have, ever since I’ve been a little girl, felt the presence of God in my life. And it has been a gift of grace that has, for me, been incredibly sustaining. But, really, ever since I was a child, I have felt the enveloping support and love of God and I have had the experiences on many, many occasions where I felt like the holy spirit was there with me as I made a journey.

It didn’t have to be a hard time. You know, it could be taking a walk in the woods. It could be watching a sunset…”

Why on earth do we need to know whether Hillary Clinton really believes in the doctrine that heaven contains a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? What does that have to do with being President of the United States?

They might as well have grilled Clinton and Obama about what their favorite color really is. It would have been about as relevant.

Senator Obama, I know that you say that blue is your favorite color, but as we all know there are a lot of different shades of blue. Will you finally get specific about what kind of blue is actually your favorite?

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3 Responses to “Faith Forum Gets Absurd”

  1. Iroquois Says:

    Maybe someone should have asked GWB some of those same questions before the last election. You know, like, does God talk to you directly and tell you how to run the country????

    I have news for HRC…that wasn’t the Holy Spirit out there with her in the woods watching a sunset. That was the Secret Service hiding in the bushes.

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  3. Lowell Says:

    What you believe is what makes
    YOU decide what to paint,
    and what color of BLUE you truly WANT.

    Pol Pot, J Stalin, Adolph, Mao Zedong.
    Their beliefs led them down a path.
    While the USA is NOT a Christian nation,
    It benefits from having been founded on
    principles and precepts that are directly out
    of the Bible.
    34% of the founding doc have “Quotes” from the
    Bible,
    90% founding docs have parallels.

    I know those who hate faith in a supreme entity
    can’t stand this, so they are moving to “extract” it.

    So, in a few decades, we’ll be more like Russia.
    Just like Roger Baldwin and
    his unAmerica CL Onion would like.

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