{"id":2573,"date":"2007-11-07T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/god-and-hillary-clinton\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:14:36","slug":"god-and-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/god-and-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"God and Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

FrontPageMagazine<\/a> | Jamie Glazov | Nov. 7, 2007<\/p>\n

So, un-belief works for liberal Democrats. Here\u2019s a statistical fact: The greater the number of people who do not believe in God, the greater the number of votes for liberal Democrats. I suppose Al Gore might call that a triumph of reason.<\/p>\n

The problem for most of these liberal politicians is that they run for office in America and not in France. They would do extremely well among the socialist, unbelieving populations of Europe. […]<\/p>\n

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FP: So what exactly does Hillary believe in?<\/p>\n

Kengor: That brings me to the other reason why I wrote this book. She is a classic, textbook-case of a Religious Left politician. Through this book, I was eager to remind a theologically ignorant media and secular nation that not everyone who is a religious believer is a \u201cfundamentalist.\u201d In fact, anyone who bothers to take an honest look at George W. Bush\u2019s statements on religion, and especially his ongoing remarks about how he and fellow Christians worship the same God as Muslims, would find that it is utterly ridiculous to categorize Bush as a fundamentalist.<\/p>\n

Within the Christian faith, there are tens of thousands of Protestant denominations. They range all over the place in their beliefs. There are liberal Christians; there are radical left Christians. There are leaderships among the mainline denominations that are to the left of Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer. Hillary\u2019s denomination\u2014the United Methodist Church\u2014has moved so far to the left that millions of faithful Methodists have permanently parted ways with their church, despite a deep heritage of Methodism within their families. Hillary\u2019s church is on-the-record as officially supporting legalized abortion, and has even joined the tragically misguided Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. It is for those reasons in particular that Hillary says she is \u201cso comfortable in this church.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillary is also part of a long tradition of \u201csocial justice\u201d Christians. These are the folks who have concluded that when Jesus calls on them to help the poor\u2014which he did quite clearly, of course\u2014that he favored a system of collectivism and forced wealth redistribution, including 50-plus percent upper-income tax rates, an estate tax, a capital gains tax, sales taxes, taxes on fuel, taxes on cigarettes, property taxes, government-subsidized healthcare, daycare, $5,000-bonds for newborns, and so on; and that\u2019s just a starter. They rightly understand that God wants all of us to be good stewards of the environment, but can be downright dogmatic in insisting that if the Almighty were here today he would cast into a lake of fire all those who don\u2019t support the Kyoto Treaty.<\/p>\n

They invoke the teachings of Christ not in a way that demands private charity\u2014which, in my view, is really the mandate of Scripture\u2014but in a way that leads to an explosion in government. Many of these folks turn Jesus Christ into a socialist.<\/p>\n

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FrontPageMagazine | Jamie Glazov | Nov. 7, 2007 So, un-belief works for liberal Democrats. Here\u2019s a statistical fact: The greater the number of people who do not believe in God, the greater the number of votes for liberal Democrats. I suppose Al Gore might call that a triumph of reason. The problem for most of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}