I’m not a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, but this made some sense to me:
Clinton later said Democrats should speak about religion more openly to frame policy debates.
“The Bible should be used to win debates over poverty the way Republicans tried to use it on gay marriage,” she said. “No one can read the New Testament of our Bible without recognizing that Jesus had a lot more to say about how we treat the poor than most of the issues that were talked about in this election.”
I see it as turning the New Testament back on conservative Evangelicals–Jesus certainly had a lot more to say about serving the poor, healing the sick, welcoming the outcast, and forgiving the sinner than he did about homosexuality, abortion, immigration restrictions and supporting the troops.
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1 xJane // Nov 28, 2007 at 8:22 am
great minds, John…I’m currently in the process of reading Deus Caritas Est. The Vulgate translation of 1 Corinthians 13, if we translated it to English is “and the greatest of these is charity. Something I don’t always see from the religious.
2 Rich // Nov 28, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Amen.
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