Presidents Unite....to help Baptist's

[cavell]

Carter, Clinton Join to Reshape Baptist Image

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are part of an initiative to
create a new Baptist voice and improve the negative image of Baptists in
North America.

An annual North American Baptist Fellowship meeting in Atlanta, Ga., was
scheduled to conclude Tuesday morning at the Carter Center with the
announcement of a historic 2008 convocation.

The convocation, part of Carter's new Baptist voice initiative, is expected
to draw more than 20,000 Baptist participants from throughout the United
States and Canada in an effort to counter the negative and judgmental image
of Baptists, according to the Associated Baptist Press.

"North America desperately needs a true Baptist witness," Bill Underwood,
president of Mercer University in Atlanta, told Baptist leaders at an April
summit last year.

In a former interview with Mother Jones, Carter said there has been an
evolution within the SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the states,
"toward a more and more rigid and strict creed that embodies the
fundamentalist principles" that he mentioned in his book Our Endangered
Values: America's Moral Crisis.

The convocation is scheduled for Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2008.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070109/24871.htm

[Jimmy Carter (and his increasingly anti-Semitic jargon) and former
President Bill Clinton certainly do create an image. Carter, however, is
wrong again when he says that Baptists have undergone an "evolution." In
truth, a devolution has occurred. Further, Mercer University's president
Bill Underwood also bypasses the truth. North America desperately needs a
biblical witness. He needs to hearken to the voice of Jesus: "Sanctify them
through Thy truth: Thy word is truth." John. 17:17.]

 

[Voegelin]

This is just another reaction by liberals to polling data which shows they got trounced in the 2004 election by those who attend church on a regular basis. First we had Jim Wallis and Michael Lerner start up their "Network of Spiritual Progressives". That was a pure DNC operation. Then Nancy Pelosi and 54 Catholic House Democrats signed a letter of faith. Then Senator Obama gave a few speeches articulating how important his faith is to him.

And now this.

But those are the velvet gloves. The fist is Nancy Pelosi's bill which will put intolerable burdens on churches which actively fight the Culture of Death.

Rather hypocritical to me that the party with members such as Charles Schumer who complain that Christians are out to create a theocracy and which maintains church and state should be separate now has its leaders out pushing religion all the time.

But I'm glad Democrats are speaking of faith. I believe liberal Christianity should have a public voice. I do not believe liberal Christians in the Democratic party should be pushed aside by the secularists in the party. I just wish Democrats would be more stand up about it. I wish they would drop the double standard which says Carter, Jim Wallis and William Jefferson
Clinton's liberal Christianity has a place in the public square and in political debate but the faith of other Christians should be a "private matter."

 

[FireQuest]

This is just another reaction by liberals to polling data which shows they got trounced in the 2004 election by those who attend church on a regular basis. First we had Jim Wallis and Michael Lerner start up their "Network of Spiritual Progressives". That was a pure DNC operation. Then Nancy Pelosi and 54 Catholic House Democrats signed a letter of faith. Then Senator Obama gave a few speeches articulating how important his faith is to him.

And now this.

But those are the velvet gloves. The fist is Nancy Pelosi's bill which will put intolerable burdens on churches which actively fight the Culture of Death.

Rather hypocritical to me that the party with members such as Charles Schumer who complain that Christians are out to create a theocracy and which maintains church and state should be separate now has its leaders out pushing religion all the time.

But I'm glad Democrats are speaking of faith. I believe liberal Christianity should have a public voice. I do not believe liberal Christians in the Democratic party should be pushed aside by the secularists in the party. I just wish Democrats would be more stand up about it. I wish they would drop the double standard which says Carter, Jim Wallis and William Jefferson
Clinton's liberal Christianity has a place in the public square and in political debate but the faith of other Christians should be a "private matter."

Good post! I am disgusted by the galloping hypocrisy that comes from politicians. Your post hit the nail on the head!