God-o-Meter’s new fellow Beliefnet blogger Reformed Chicks Blabbing has made a personal plea for GOM to raise Fred Thompson’s reading on the basis that he relies on sound Christian theology in envisioning government’s role in curing social ills. Here’s what Thompson said on Saturday in South Carolina, according to CBS News:
A woman asked him if he would “as a Christian, as a conservative” continue President Bush’s programs to combat global AIDS.
“Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it,” Thompson said.
“The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other.”
God-o-Meter will grant Reformed Chicks (which really refers to one blogger, despite the name) and goose Thompson’s number. And with Thompson vying with Huckabee (not to mention Romney) for evangelical votes in this Saturday’s South Carolina primary, God-o-Meter suspects these aren’t Thompson’s only religion comments this week.
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posted January 14, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for the bump and the plug!
And I agree this will be the week that he might even make theocrat
posted January 14, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Contrast Thompson’s command of both his Scriptural duty and his duties as president with that of Huckabee who at one campaign stop in New Hampshire,
“I dream of the day when we are doing such an efficient and effective job of taking care of our families and our neighbors that the government can do what it does best — and that’s protect us, not have to provide for us,”
Huckabee has faith that God can turn “five loaves and two fish” into a winning campaign but demonstrates little faith in the good Lord’s ability to feed our nation without government assistance! This is one reason among many that Thompson is higher on my list than Huckabee.