{"id":1931,"date":"2008-01-09T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T10:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2008-01-08T17:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:46:51","slug":"miss_o_haras-xanga-site-142008-124640-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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<\/em> believe in Him. So do satan and his minions. Care to use Huckabee’s evangelicalism as your route to logic again?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make no mistake about it; I’m a Christian.\u00a0 So is most of this nation.\u00a0 It stands to reason that I’d And I believe that being of faith<\/em> is an important thing in a person;\u00a0all other things being equal, I’d vote for a person of faith over an atheist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, all other things are rarely equal.\u00a0 Would I vote for a pro-growth, low-taxes,\u00a0strict-constructionist, pro-defense Moslem over, say, Jimmy Carter?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Well, let’s burn that bridge when we come to it, shall we?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is, unfortunately, what I see from a lot of “people of faith”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}