Liveprayer.com founder Bill Keller makes a big call to "say 'no' to Satan this November."Almost 1.4 Million Pledge For Jesus as Write-In Candidate in 2012, as Disgruntled Evangelicals Vent Their Anti-Mormon, Anti-Obama Ire
Bruce Wilson | talk2action.org
I look at this "write in" thing as a bit disrespectful of the Lord...
ReplyDeleteWiki has the % of US citizens that self-identify as "Christians" at about 76%.
"The largest religion in the US is Christianity, practiced by the majority of the population (76% in 2008[4]). From those queried, roughly 51.3% of Americans are Protestants, 23.9% are Catholics, 1.7% are Mormons (the name commonly used to refer to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), and 1.7% of various other Christian denominations.[12][13] "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#Christianity
So it is obvious that MANY Christians will vote for Obama. These will be the "socio-economic justice" Christians imo.
.... the others will probably vote for Romney, these are represented by more diverse characteristics and seem to include anti-abortion folks, homophobes, Randians/libertarians, pro Israel folks, sectarians, probably some others so the Romney side is more diverse and Mitt has a lot tougher time appealing to all of these sub-categories at once... especially coming from a sect that only has 1.7%...rsp,
How easy is to write-in on electronic ballots? I early voted Tuesday, and I do not recall anyway to do so. Will the pledges just not vote for President if they can not write-in a vote easily I wonder.
ReplyDeleteHow many are going to write in America's second-most influential prophet, Ayn Rand?
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ReplyDeleteYou can't be a randian and a Christian. Well, you can, only in USA. I would go as far as saying that you can't be a right-wing "libertarian" and a Christian.
BTW, there wasn't a commandment which was "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."? Why are all these Christians (specially evangelical morons) constantly breaking it?
SO much for even the Christian-only version of the constitution as designed by the Framers of the Constitution ...
ReplyDeleteIgnacio,
ReplyDeleteRight this is perhaps a good example of "in vain" type of thing...
As far as the Randians, they get carried away by all of this "land of the free" concept... we'll see how this turns out... but the way I'm looking at it, if Obama wins, it has to be because many who self-identify as Christians have voted for him.
And this imo would have to be those who put "social/economic justice" at the top of their priority list... and Obama better represents albeit at best a very naive form of this concept (ie re-distribution/"brother's keeper")...
rsp,