God-o-Meter couldn’t help but chuckle at Bill Richardson’s telling an Iowa crowd that their state needs to preserve its threatened first-in-the-nation caucus status “for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord.” Will Richardson get political points for according the Hawkeye State divine purpose? Maybe. But, while God-o-Meter has read Richardson’s new book Between Worlds and therefore recognizes that he takes his Catholicism somewhat seriously, such off-the-cuff zingers may resurrect a stereotype of Democrats as invoking religion just for political purposes or as making light of religion or God. “That was a little weird," one of the speech’s attendees told The Des Moines Register. “I don't know what God had to do with choosing Iowa among other states.”
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I dont know how Richardson is 2 on here. In the last Debate with Tim Russert He could not name a Bible verse,when asked what Bible verse do they live by.
Catholics probably have the least theologically sophisticated laity in Christianity. They're taught more from church catechism than from the bible. I grew up with a Catholic education that started before Vatican II and ended after. Throughout, all of our religious instruction was from catechism and church dictrine. The bible was discussed but NEVER actually read in our classes. It doesn;t surprise me that Richardson can't name a single verse. I find that, since leaving both Catholicism and Christianity, I now know more about the bible than I did when I was still in the church.
Sorry for the typo - that should have been "doctrine".
I am happy to see Bill Richardson is still hanging in there. He is my choice for candidate. He has experience in government in Wash.D.C. and as governor of New Mexico. He has the wisdom to know we should withdraw from Iraq and the foreign policy experience to know best how to do that. This is the first that I've heard about his spiritual leanings and this makes him all the more the best choice in my opinion.
I still haven't made up my mind, but as a Evangelical mish-mash Christian, I know that Catholics know more about the Social doctrine of Christ than most of my colleagues. I'm leaning toward Richardson and think that he should be appointed to a cabinet post by whom ever wins the General election.
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