their faith would effect their actions as a president. I do feel
bad that Mr. Keller has lost his faith.
I too am concerned about some
of the views of the candidates in question.
Looking at Presidents up to
the present I really don't know that their faith has impacted their
presidential actions all that much, with the possible exception of Jimmy
Carter. Some would say that's a good thing because of separation of Church and
State. Now I'm a Catholic sister so that's where I'm coming from but if your
religious faith does not effect how you live every day. If it does not affect
how you see the world and the choices you make then you're just playing
games.
I
listen to some of the current crop of candidates and they pray, invoke God and
talk about their faith but they seem to be cafeteria Christians and Mormons.
Picking what they like and leaving out what is politically risky.
Through the years Christian presidents
and other politicians have been able to ignore lots of the more inconvenient
demands of Christianity. I think particularly of the Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5 or Luke
6: 20 - 26 "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is
yours". Check out this video:
Or how about this quote from
Leviticus 19: 34?
"You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt.y I, the LORD, am your God."
"You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt.y I, the LORD, am your God."
The 10 Commandments are pretty
clear and we all struggle with them but with politicians it appears that number
8 is often ignored,
Just wondering are all the
commandments suspended when you're running for office? Is it okay to let PACs
make up stuff about your opponents that aren't true?
During the last campaign I recall John McCain softly correcting a women who
During the last campaign I recall John McCain softly correcting a women who
repeated one of the many slurs
about Barack Obama. I thought wow! Integrity!
I know
all of us are hypocrites to some degree. I too have a plank in my eye when it
comes to certain demands, but the point is you keep trying to grow and change
and be more aware. So I'm praying for all our candidates that they may live up to the demands of both their faith and our constitution.
It would help if they read their books of faith, Bible or Book of Mormon and the Constitution thoroughly and don't skip the hard parts.
