“The Texas governor has made his faith a centerpiece of his presidential campaign in ways both overt and subtle – hardly the first time he has enthusiastically mixed religion and politics.”
“America is going to be guided by some set of values – the question is going to be whose values,” Perry said in a speech at Virginia’s Liberty University in September. “I would suggest … it is those Christian values that this country was based upon.”
Careful there, Rick. Those values allowed slavery, wherein one human being owns another, encouraged discrimination against women, promotes itself as the only true religion and worship a God which thereby condemns 2/3rds of Earth’s population to eternal damnation. Haven’t these guys read that Jesus said “Render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and to God that which is God’s”? Don’t they know that one of the values this country was founded upon included the separation of Church and State? It may be a good religion, but it’s a lousy moral guide.
“Some friends of the governor say he sees his presidential quest as a kind of mission from God.”
Rick, you are a charismatic, articulate guy. How about becoming a minister? Haven’t we seen enough of these wars started by a Texan who talks to God? That “mission from God” statement should scare the living lettuce out of every human on Earth.
Don’t these people know there is a New Covenant, a Covenant which replaced the Old Covenant? Haven’t any of these “Christians” read the New Testament? The Sermon on the Mount? Don’t any of them ask what Jesus would do? Or care?
I’m afraid not, really.