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Buttigieg plays the religion card [View all]
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Here, you have somebody who not only acts in a way that is not consistent with anything that I hear in scripture or in church, where its about lifting up the least among us and taking care of strangers, which is another word for immigrants. And making sure that youre focusing your effort on the poor. But also personally, how youre supposed to conduct yourself.
Not chest thumping look-at-me-ism, but humbling yourself before others. Foot washing is one of the central images in the New Testament. And we see the diametric opposite of that in this presidency. I think there was perhaps a cynical process where he decided to, for example, begin to pretend to be pro-life and govern accordingly. Which was good enough to bring many Evangelicals over to his side. But even on the version of Christianity that you hear from the religious right, which is about sexual ethics, I cant believe that somebody who was caught writing hush money checks to adult film actresses is somebody they should be lifting up as the kind of person you want to be leading this nation.
Not chest thumping look-at-me-ism, but humbling yourself before others. Foot washing is one of the central images in the New Testament. And we see the diametric opposite of that in this presidency. I think there was perhaps a cynical process where he decided to, for example, begin to pretend to be pro-life and govern accordingly. Which was good enough to bring many Evangelicals over to his side. But even on the version of Christianity that you hear from the religious right, which is about sexual ethics, I cant believe that somebody who was caught writing hush money checks to adult film actresses is somebody they should be lifting up as the kind of person you want to be leading this nation.
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https://religionnews.com/2019/04/17/buttigieg-plays-the-religion-card/
Can Buttigieg drive a wedge between Trump and his religious supporters?
Or is racism the key here?
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The more important question is, can a mind closed by faith be opened by discussion?
trotsky
Apr 2019
#1
Atheism isn't an unprovable position. I realize that you insist you get to define it for atheists..
trotsky
Apr 2019
#15
You do understand that Obama tried this and got approximately 0 religious voters to change, right?
Voltaire2
Apr 2019
#5
You have to wonder if some on the far right christian spectrum haven't already made Trump divine...
Thomas Hurt
Apr 2019
#26