Link: [On YouTube]
As if we
did not have enough going on already, another political firestorm is
threatening to burn out of control. It
started with the remark from Rick Santorum about President Obama being guided
by a phony theology, and then more fuel was added by Rev. Franklin Graham.
Link: [On The Washington Post]
I missed
the last part of the interview when it was being initially aired, but I heard
enough to be fairly disgusted with the way the panelists were trying to get
Rev. Graham to come right out and say that President Obama is not really a
Christian, along with being fairly impressed with the way Rev. Graham refused
to go there. Oh, but they backdoored him
in the part that I missed. For instead
sticking with answering their questions about whether or not Rick Santorum,
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney were Christians by saying that they would have to
ask them about that, he came right out and said that Santorum and Gingrich were
while saying of Romney, “Christians would not recognize Mormonism as being of
the Christian faith.”
Did I
miss the memo? For Rev. Graham is
supposed to be a Protestant while Santorum and Gingrich are avowed Catholics,
which used to make them unrecognizable to each other. For Protestants are supposed to believe that
we are saved by grace through faith alone while Catholics are supposed to
believe that the sacrifice that Christ Jesus made for us did not pay the price
in full.
Yes, I
understand that the baptismal waters have been becoming steadily more murky for
several years now, but I thought there was still as much of a distinction
between Protestantism and Catholicism as there was for Mormonism? Yes, it matters.
Besides,
what does theology have to do with politics in the minds of most in the
Christian community today, anyway? For
it has been widely taught that our Heavenly Father has very little (if anything
at all) with the daily affairs of this world, which most certainly covers
politics.
So, why
is this a news story in the first place—let alone the beginning of another
political firestorm? Again, it matters.
The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their
mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human
rules they have been taught. Therefore
once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of
the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. Woe to those who go to great depths to hide
their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, ‘Who sees
us? Who will know?’ You turn things
upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who
formed it, ‘You did not make me?’ Can
the pot say to the potter, ‘You know nothing?’” [Isaiah 29:13-16 NIV]
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