NPR series - Faith in the upcoming election

[fishbob]

NPR started this morning on a 3-day series on religion and the election. Today's episode dealt with 2 adjacent protestant churches in Pennsylvania, and which candidate groups from each church supported. One congregation was mostly pro-Bush, the other was mostly pro-Kerry.

Anybody else hear this?? I listened, but didn't learn much, other than religious people have differences of opinion. There seemed to be no real point in this episode, other than an intro to the next episode.

[shanek]

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have much faith in the upcoming election...

[fishbob]

If you vote for the candidate you support, your chances of being unhappily disappointed are 99.9%. If you vote against the candidate that you dislike the most, your chances of being disappointed are about 50%.

Vote Happy.

I heard another NPR sponsor this morning. Some foundation or grant in support of reporting on religion. This is a disturbing development in my opinion.

[zakur]

Originally posted by fishbob
I listened, but didn't learn much, other than religious people have differences of opinion. Just like a recent article I read which examined the question "Would Jesus be a Democrat or a Republican?"

Stunning results - Democrats say he would be a Democrat, Republicans say he would be a Republican. :rolleyes:

[shanek]

Originally posted by fishbob
If you vote for the candidate you support, your chances of being unhappily disappointed are 99.9%. If you vote against the candidate that you dislike the most, your chances of being disappointed are about 50%.

I disagree. If I vote for the candidate I support, my chances of being unhappy may very well be 99.9%. But if I vote for the lesser evil (assuming I can figure out which evil is lesser), my chances of being unhappy are 100%.

[shanek]

Originally posted by zakur
Just like a recent article I read which examined the question "Would Jesus be a Democrat or a Republican?"

Stunning results - Democrats say he would be a Democrat, Republicans say he would be a Republican. :rolleyes:

Well, I'm a Libertarian, and I'd say Jesus would most likely be unaffiliated and would probably be chuckling slightly at our partisan squabbles.

[Bikewer]

Check out my post on the same subject in "religion", I listened to the second segment as well.

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by zakur
Just like a recent article I read which examined the question "Would Jesus be a Democrat or a Republican?"

Stunning results - Democrats say he would be a Democrat, Republicans say he would be a Republican. :rolleyes:

I thought he was an Englishman.

[Tony]

I think I hear it. Did it have sound bites of people speaking in tounges?

[TillEulenspiegel]

My Gods bigger then Your God...My gods bigger then Yours.....


Want to be alarmed at the relationship between religion and politics in the current situ???

Look up front-line ( a PBS) series and check out the adhesion between biblical literialists and the current white-house.

Be afraid...be very afraid.

[Patrick]

Want to be alarmed at the relationship between religion and politics in the current situ???

Look up front-line ( a PBS) series and check out the adhesion between biblical literialists and the current white-house.

Be afraid...be very afraid.

The connection of the liberal/left and religion goes waaaaayyyy back - liberals don't really have a problem with mixing religion and politics, they have a problem with mixing religion and conservative politics.

[fishbob]

The connection of the the conservative/right and religion also goes waaaaayyyy back - righties don't really have a problem with mixing religion and politics, they have a problem with mixing religion and liberal politics. For example, lots of KKK members are also active in protestant churches. You got any examples, Pat?

[Patrick]

You got any examples, Pat?

:D

Do you know anything?

For starters, take the National Council of Churches, the nominal representatives of the mainline protestant churches in america, and as such, their influence historically compared to such as the KKK is like comparing an M1 tank with a peashooter. Their agenda in say the last 30 years has been usually indistinguishable from the feminist, homosexual, appeaser, abortionist, "liberation theology", and big government lobbies. Their support has just in the last few years begun to decline as churches drop away, just as membership is falling in the mainline churches, because members have at long last tired of supporting the liberal/left instead of the moral precepts of their churches.