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02-28-2015, 07:22 PM
Does this change your view towards Billy Maher?
Stumbled on this little detail in below news:
Goddard wasn’t the only major media figure attacking Republican candidates’ religious preference. HBO’s Bill Maher blogged just two days ago that Jeb Bush is a “convenient Catholic,” explaining:
W. became an Evangelical Protestant and coincidentally ran for Governor of Texas, where voters are 34% Evangelical Protestant / 24% Catholic.
Jeb noticed his wife was Catholic after 22 years, and ran for Governor of Florida, where the voters are 26% Catholic / 25% Evangelical Protestant.
The voters in both states were only 15 percent mainline Protestant, the faith with which Bush children come originally installed. Now, of course, who am I to question God’s power to work wondrous change? I’m just saying the Bush boys tend to believe in whatever juju the locals do.
President Obama’s super PAC accepted $1 million (http://www.npr.org/2012/03/28/149512215/bill-mahers-obama-superpac-donation-causes-stir) from Maher in the last election cycle. Will Obama be expected to return that cash?
[A]s the country gets acquainted with the Bayou’s boy wonder, the stranger details of Jindal’s religious or personal background remain largely unknown…How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of Satan from a college girlfriend?
Over at the Huffington Post, columnist Rajiv Malhotra wrote that Jindal’s conversion to Catholicism was pure political chicanery:
The example of Jindal demonstrates the pressure to capitulate for the sake of political ambition. Jindal couldn’t change his color, but he converted his religion to become less different from the dominant white Christians of his party.
On a broader level, President Obama routinely calls into question the religious faiths of those with whom he disagrees. It’s why he cites, wildly out of context, quotes from the New Testament about “the least of these” – the implication being that if you don’t endorse his political agenda, you aren’t a true Christian.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/02/26/media-question-walker-jeb-jindal-faiths/
Stumbled on this little detail in below news:
Goddard wasn’t the only major media figure attacking Republican candidates’ religious preference. HBO’s Bill Maher blogged just two days ago that Jeb Bush is a “convenient Catholic,” explaining:
W. became an Evangelical Protestant and coincidentally ran for Governor of Texas, where voters are 34% Evangelical Protestant / 24% Catholic.
Jeb noticed his wife was Catholic after 22 years, and ran for Governor of Florida, where the voters are 26% Catholic / 25% Evangelical Protestant.
The voters in both states were only 15 percent mainline Protestant, the faith with which Bush children come originally installed. Now, of course, who am I to question God’s power to work wondrous change? I’m just saying the Bush boys tend to believe in whatever juju the locals do.
President Obama’s super PAC accepted $1 million (http://www.npr.org/2012/03/28/149512215/bill-mahers-obama-superpac-donation-causes-stir) from Maher in the last election cycle. Will Obama be expected to return that cash?
[A]s the country gets acquainted with the Bayou’s boy wonder, the stranger details of Jindal’s religious or personal background remain largely unknown…How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of Satan from a college girlfriend?
Over at the Huffington Post, columnist Rajiv Malhotra wrote that Jindal’s conversion to Catholicism was pure political chicanery:
The example of Jindal demonstrates the pressure to capitulate for the sake of political ambition. Jindal couldn’t change his color, but he converted his religion to become less different from the dominant white Christians of his party.
On a broader level, President Obama routinely calls into question the religious faiths of those with whom he disagrees. It’s why he cites, wildly out of context, quotes from the New Testament about “the least of these” – the implication being that if you don’t endorse his political agenda, you aren’t a true Christian.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/02/26/media-question-walker-jeb-jindal-faiths/