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Closed for the Season
With Election Day finally having come and gone, God-o-Meter is closing up shop till 2012--or at least 2010. Till then, get your faith and politics fix over at Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steve Waldman's blog.
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posted 4:32:33pm Nov. 19, 2008 |
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On The Religious Left, Great Expectations
The first priorities for Barack Obama's administration will be the economy and a variety of foreign policy issues. But the burgeoning religious left, which worked so hard to get Obama elected, expects some movement on its issues, including a robust White House office of faith-based initiatives, pove
posted 1:49:31pm Nov. 07, 2008 |
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Howard Dean's Vindication
God-o-Meter wrote a piece for today's Roll Call on the vindication of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's much-derided 50-State Strategy, which is largely about reaching out to the nation's more religious voters in the red states:
Years before Barack Obama showed that a liberal Demo
posted 2:01:06pm Nov. 06, 2008 |
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A Post-Election Chat with Ralph Reed
Amid today's talk that Barack Obama has narrowed the God Gap, God-o-Meter checked in with Ralph Reed, who spearheaded religious outreach for George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and who pioneered such outreach for Republicans as executive director of the Christian Coalition.
What surprised you i
posted 3:09:07pm Nov. 05, 2008 |
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More Innacurate Faith Storylines From the Media
God-o-Meter is struck by the number of faith-based storylines the news media appear to have gotten dead wrong this year.
One was the line that Obama was poised to make big gains among white votes, especially evangelicals, who were undergoing a generational shift in their political thinking and reexa
posted 11:53:20am Nov. 05, 2008 |
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posted September 24, 2008 at 11:00 am
We’re talking the Liberty University, right? Cuz the man himself is daid.
posted September 24, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Maybe he rose three days later and no one heard about it.
posted September 24, 2008 at 6:18 pm
And Jerry Falwell Jr. said that he wasn’t going to endorse anyone? Yeah right.
posted September 24, 2008 at 8:11 pm
This is Terrible!
How can our society survive with these indoctrinators in charge of teaching our young people??!!!
How can they dare to present only one side of the argument???!
How they dare to preach religious beliefs as if it there was any good science attached to them???!!
How dare they mess around with the schedules and let students out to go vote?!!!
Hey…. Am not talking about Jerry Falwell’s school…
…I am talking about the Public School, colleges and Universities where you are sending your Kids!!
posted October 1, 2008 at 4:18 am
This obvious attempt to coerce young voters is another example of how Taliban-like our nation’s religious right has become in short steps over a period of decades. If one examines closely the New Testament book of Matthew, Chapter 28, verses 19-20 wherein Christians are charged to “…go ye therefore and teach all nations…,” there is no mention of intimidation, coercion, or any other strong-arm tactics. Christians are charged in God’s Word to TEACH instead — meaning talk with others and show by example — the recipient’s right is to choose their own beliefs and actions according to their own opinion, which is truly what freedom and religious liberty are all about. Endorsing a political party or candidate in a thinly-veiled way to avoid violation of the separation-of-church-and-state laws, and using a pulpit to coerce others and exercise inappropriately a minister’s influence over his congregation is just one short step away from the old KKK modus-operandi. They “have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God,” to quote another scripture.
posted October 1, 2008 at 4:23 pm
DelbertR; Have you been to a college campus lately?Any campus?Have you heard the first grade students singing the obama song?Do you think these students are choosing their own beliefs. Stop using the church as a crutch for your liberalizim