We know that his most recent book about the Middle East is filled with falsehoods and that he plagarized and distorted stolen materials for his book. Cinnamon Stillwell, writing at the San Francisco Chronicle, gives a long laundry list of his policy fa…

To me, it’s simple. There are between 50 and 100 million evangelicals in this country, depending on how you count and which questions you ask.

I’m not being snarky, but is there a series of questions that help determine if a person is evangelical or not?

If so, I’d love to read them.

EFG, what’s being said here is that the numbers you end up with depend on the questioning format. Some people decide you qualify as evangelical if you go to church more than twice a month, others if you go more than once a week, still others based on how closely you believe the Bible, or a myriad of other inappropriate criteria. It tells more about the characterization of Christians by the pollsters or analysts, than anything about Christians themselves.

Yes, by Scripture all Christians ought to be evangelical. However, sadly, many of them today don’t know that. A great many Christians today think that since their “conversion experience” they can just go on having a “normal” life with no expectations of service to God. But that slides off-topic.

Bryan is on the nose regarding his analysis of Wills’ spew, and that Sullivan has done no more than grab hold of the ride. Sullivan pontificates about how Christianists (his slur against any evangelical who thinks there are absolutes to life that Sully disagrees with) are all wrong and don’t really serve God because they can’t really know Him. Then he tells us all to vote Democrat or abstain, because this is how we’ll save the conservative movement in America.

With a nod to Tony Blankley’s column of October 25th, voting against the Republicans who are closer (if not close enough) to your own ideals to “teach them a lesson”, fails on its face because teaching them the lesson fires them from their job, and gives it to the Democrats who will not think a lesson was offered.

Voting for the greater of two evils to punish the lesser, as if we the voters are indignant parents trying to spank the naughty RINOs, will put incumbency in the hands of worse than RINOs. And the suggestion that there isn’t enough difference between RINOs and Democrats must be answered with:

- A ground military action underway with troops at hazard
- As-yet pending judicial appointments that need up/down votes
- Border security
- Immigration enforcement
- Anti-terrorism
- North Korea
- Iran
- Israel

And for the Christians among us, factor in the indifference toward us from RINOs, compared with active contempt and spite from the socialists.

/suckup

…I could only get about 10 paragraphs through the Wills piece before my gag-reflex kicked in. Sorry….

I want to know something: what dirty little personal habit does Wills practice which he feels that Christianity (and Christians) would A) prohibit, and B) talk about behind his back.

We know about Sullivan and his habits. In fact, I for one would like him to stop being so frank about his dirty little habits. I already know enough, Andy…you’ve made it crystal clear.

So…evangelicals are to be disenfranchised. That would go handily into the Lib/Dem/MSM/bitter-former-conservative-pundit campaign of redefining the electorate by paring down just who should and should not be considered a citizen. Conservatives are out. People who support the present or any subsequent wars we’ll be foreced into by Leftist navel-gazing are out. Blacks who don’t know what’s good for them are definitely out. Oh…a nod to Sullivan…homosexuals like Tammy Bruce are definitely out…HERETIC!

…so, my new Democrat/John-Kerry-esque-arrogance-flavored slogan du jour comes into play:

“Democracy is too important a business to be entrusted to peasants.”

I’m not being snarky, but is there a series of questions that help determine if a person is evangelical or not?

If so, I’d love to read them.

EFG on October 31, 2006 at 4:08 PM

All Christians are supposed to be evangelicals, born again too. Those terms properly belong to all believers, not just some….

You mean to tell me that George Bush and his cronies filled all kinds of government positions with people who agree with his beliefs?

…actually, that *WAS* a criticism levelled at the Bush Administration once upon a time not long ago…and against his choice of Supreme Court justices…insufficient diversity of opinion….

…that coming from the “party of intellectual diversity”…ask Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller about that one….

We’ll see soon enough if they want me at work tomorrow night.

In any case, Corvallis may be beyond saving…

We’ll see soon enough if they want me at work tomorrow night.

Defector01–trivia: the USA has already produced a Jewish president–a lady from Chicago who was elected president of Guyana in 1997 or ‘98. Kind of interesting.
-Barnabas (born-again Christian)

Barnabas on October 31, 2006 at 3:21 PM

And Golda Meir grew up in Milwaukee before emigrating to (the British Mandate of) Palestine in 1921, and eventually became the first female Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).

To me, it’s simple. There are between 50 and 100 million evangelicals in this country, depending on how you count and which questions you ask.

I’m not being snarky, but is there a series of questions that help determine if a person is evangelical or not?

If so, I’d love to read them.

Leave now and regain your sanity! Central Oregon is beautiful, but there’s somethin’ in the water.

-FFOG

It wasn’t always that case–despite (a) having successfully planned the monumental D-Day Invasion and (b) bringing World War II to a successful conclusion, Ike was portrayed as an intellectual lightweight by the left of the time (with Stevenson as his Brianac superior) in very much the same fashion that Reagan and Bush #43 would be.

/sarc off

Godless liberals!

Is this a requirement of all Republican presidents?
So if I run and I’m jewish, do I have to be guided through baptism by Graham?

HAHAHAHAHAA that’s great.

And yes, you will have to be baptized to get the Republican nod. One of those unwritten rule things. Kind of like you have to pretend you like poor people to be a Democrat.

I go to Oregon State University, where I just got a job copy editing for our school newspaper. It’s almost completely liberal, and last week they printed this little number, which dovetails with people like Sullivan and Wills.

Structrued religion and society’s reaction