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Uh huh. Pat Robertson is such a great spokesmen for your "tolerant" religion. Gotta love it when a religion's leaders are complete chaletons and scumbags like
Jimmy Swaggart,
Jim Bakker and his whore
Tammy Faye,
Oral Roberts,
Peter Popoff,
Robert Tilton,
Benny Hinn, and
Jim Whittington.
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I'm familiar with most of those names and the ones I recognize are all Assemblies of God. They make a lot of noise just like your reverend Jackson and Shrapnel(sp) but who do they represent? I know this might be hard for a catholic boy to understand but, Fundamental Christians don't recognize a Pope. We do our thinking for ourselves based upon a book we hold as sacred and given by God.
The largest evangelical denomination in the states is Southern Baptist. Along side this denomination are a score of smaller Baptist denomination like the American Baptist and the Northwest ect. I am a member of an independent Baptist church which numbers would probably exceed most evangelical denominations in the states if they were counted. Because each church is independent there is no way of knowing how many exist.
None of those people you listed would have any influence over this large voting block. Most if not all of them wouldn't be allowed to speak in a church service. Jimmy Carter teaches Adult Sunday school in a Southern Baptist church; Clinton is Southern Baptist; Jesse Jackson is Baptist as well. That being said I doubt that most Baptists voted for the Democrats last election. Why? Because they don't represent them. The leadership in the Democrat's party seem to embrace religion as long as it doesn't influence your life beyond Sunday morning. You can believe that a unborn child is a human life worthy of protection under the law on Sunday morning but you better fall into the party line when you vote or are elected to public office. You can can believe that God designed the family to consist of a man and a women and whatever offspring that union produces but if your a Democrat you better bite your tongue as the special position that institution has had in society is abolished. Why would any free thinking individual want to embrace a party like that?
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Better talk with Dumbya about that, Sparky. Seems he has no fear of bring about the Rapture.
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How would the Presidents actions bring upon the Rapture? America has no significant role in the events recorded in Revelations and Daniel.
First of all the support for the republican party isn't going to dry up because there are some scandals. Christians have the same low view of politicians as non- Christians. Christians actually have a lower view of human nature than secular society. If their Senator or Congressman isn't implicated in one of these scandals and still appears to vote on the right side of moral issues i am sure he will retain their votes.
Secondly many of those sites are political sites that try to solicit Christian votes for their Party. What they say doesn't represent what a Christian might think or vote.
Thirdly, It is you who have failed to show how a belief in the eminent return of Jesus Christ has caused war or is a threat to the world. In fact you haven't even shown that to be a belief that the President embraces. He is Methodist I believe.
Lastly, the rapture isn't followed immediately by Jesus' final judgment. There is a seven year period followed by a Millennium and a final short battle before the Judgment. Also Christians are not active participants in any battle prophesied to take place. If God is God he has no need for us to fight his battles.