From Stark
Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan offered invocations at both the Republican and Democratic conventions, but his words in the two venues contained significant differences.
So says Mathew Schmalz, religious studies professor at the College of the Holy Cross, writing in the Washington Post.
In both invocations, Dolan offered veiled references to the ways in which party positions on social and economic issues are at odds, to some extent, with Catholic doctrines. For the Democrats, that meant same-sex marriage and abortion. For the Republicans, that meant immigration and concern for the needy.
Schmalz concludes: ”In the clamor of both conventions, I wonder whether anyone had the space to listen to Dolan, let alone to God.”
(Full disclosure: I’m a Catholic.)
I’s wonder what the Cardinal thought about the democrats vote aginst God, don’t ya know?
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Do any Democrats believe in God, AFY? Do all Republicans go to church?
The democrats that are voting for Romney do john!
Just joking john, but you have to admit that the democratic party of Obama is quite different than that of let’s say JFK, don’t ya know!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqd-njpj8x8&feature=player_embedded
In this video a large group of Democrats yelled “No” 3 times to a vote to adopt the ammendment that added to the Democratic National platform the fact that “the faith and belief in God is central to the American story”.
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John – both hyperlinks embedded open the same thing (the writer’s Holy Cross bio); could we get a link to the WA Post article? Thanks
One man’s nonsense is another’s dogma.
Oops–sorry about the link foulup. Just fixed it.
A lot of people (including some very religious people) are uncomfortable with the “God is on our side” approach to politics. Some of the founding fathers had relgious beliefs that would make it impossible for them to win a Republican primary today.
john it is my opinion that if Jesus was running for pres from either party there would be groups from either/both parties voting against him, the way politics are today with many people unless you agree with a candidate on all of your hot point issues(mainly social like abortion, gay rights, welfare rights, etc) even though you may agree with that candidate 95% of the time on everything else some people will not support that candidate.
On the founding fathers and religion IMHO God was a big part in the founding of this country, there is overwhelming evidence to prove it but that does not mean that all of the founding father agreed about God in the same way. This whole argument about the separation of government and God is IMHO bogus, the founding fathers had a problem with government mandated religion but not God.
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“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature . . . the power I mean of electing at stated periods [each] branch. . . . It becomes necessary to every [citizen] then, to be in some degree a statesman, and to examine and judge for himself of the tendency of political principles and measures. Let us examine, then, with a sober, a manly . . . and a Christian spirit; let us neglect all party [loyalty] and advert to facts; let us believe no man to be infallible or impeccable in government any more than in religion; take no man’s word against evidence, nor implicitly adopt the sentiments of others who may be deceived themselves, or may be interested in deceiving us.” John Adams
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The following link is about what happened yesterday in the middle east, be forewarn about the content:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/islamists-drag-dead-body-of-us-ambassador-in-the-streets/
The people who did this did not do this in the name of God because animals can not believe in God, IMHO!
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Our founding fathers may have had varied religious beliefs, but the vast majority believed in a higher power of some kind.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”
Our rights come from a higher power and goverment, powered by the people, secure those rights. As the Democrats move away from a higher power as the source of rights and morality, then who will they turn to, a cult leader, a tyrant, a king, mob rule of pure democracy?
The progressive Democrats can ride the River Styx, just don’t expect a lot of main stream Americans to jump in the boat.
That author Wally, also explained the mob rule, and democracy.
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
Democracy’s Finest Hour!
So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”
That was not said.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
AFY, Jesus may have been a great religious leader, but he would have been a crappy president
Dondegroovily don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house!
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