Misplaced Faith
By Mitch Berg
While I think the Huckabee train may have left the station for now, the frighteningly prolific Miss O’Hara sums up something I’ve been pondering for quite a while:
Christians of varying stripes support [Governor Huckabee] for no other reason than “he’s one of us”, an intellectually and spiritually neglectful position to take. Don’t tell me this isn’t happening; I’ve heard talk show caller after caller and read person after person saying, “We’re supporting the Christian!” Whoop-dee-doo. Thompson and Hunter are believers as well. So is Ron Paul. Mitt Romney may be Mormon and Rudy Giuliani may be Catholic, but I dare say they believe in Jesus too. I believe in Him. So do satan and his minions. Care to use Huckabee’s evangelicalism as your route to logic again?
Make no mistake about it; I’m a Christian. So is most of this nation. It stands to reason that I’d And I believe that being of faith is an important thing in a person; all other things being equal, I’d vote for a person of faith over an atheist.
Of course, all other things are rarely equal. Would I vote for a pro-growth, low-taxes, strict-constructionist, pro-defense Moslem over, say, Jimmy Carter? Well, let’s burn that bridge when we come to it, shall we?
Too many believers are not thoughtful as the Bible admonishes us to be, but buy into anything proclaiming itself as faith-friendly hook, line, and sinker without ever stopping to consider what it is we’re aligning ourselves with.
Which is, unfortunately, what I see from a lot of “people of faith”.
January 9th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Gee, ya think?
January 9th, 2008 at 6:23 am
angryclown agrees? I would reconsider for that reason alone. 😉
January 9th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I’ve heard talk show caller after caller and read person after person
Strangely, I haven’t. All I’ve really heard is anecdotes. Where are all these Christian Huckabee people? Not in New Hampshire.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Don’t know a one. We’re Baptists, my mother belongs to a Pentecostal church (pro-Rudy)…not one Huckabee fan in our aquaintance (which are mostly Evangelical believers). At work, there is a broader spectrum, but most of the people who have spoken about it at all (it can get tricky at work), like Fred Thompson!
January 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Huckabee’s 11% in NH is probably close to what he’d get against Clinton or Obama in Nov.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Of course, all other things are rarely equal. Would I vote for a pro-growth, low-taxes, strict-constructionist, pro-defense Moslem over, say, Jimmy Carter? Well, let’s burn that bridge when we come to it, shall we?
Shouldn’t the answer to that hypothetical be a resounding “Hell yes!”?
January 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Ever cautious, I’d probably defer to a firm but quiet “heck, yeah”.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Mitch doesn’t like their version of pretend as much as his own.
Is faith in Santa a prerequisite?
January 9th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
“Would I vote for a pro-growth, low-taxes, strict-constructionist, pro-defense Moslem over, say, Jimmy Carter?”
Uh….I would over about pretty much anyone running? Can you make him black? And a woman? And gay? So that AC head explodes?