I hate to start a new thread on this, but evangelical leaders are meeting in Texas today to see if they can get behind one anti-Romeny candidate. NPR had a good story on the meeting his morning. http://www.npr.org/2012/01/13/145121706/evangelical-leaders-struggle-to-crown-a-candidate This guy nearly made my wife spit out her oatmeal this morning: It probably won't be that bad, says Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention. Polls suggest that given the choice between Romney and President Obama in a general election contest, 9 out of 10 evangelicals would vote for Romney. And yet, Land says: "Before we marry the guy next door, don't you think we ought to have a fling with a tall dark stranger and see if he can support us in the manner to which we'd like to be accustomed? And if he can't, we can always marry the steady beau who lives next door." Ummm. okay. Hey, is that Larry Craig tapping his foot at the next urinal? Oh, and Ted Haggard in on line one. And line two. And line three.
Jesus doesn't care who wins elections. He's more concerned about whether the Broncos beat the spread.
He may not care about who wins elections but I'm sure cares about people trashing other people using his good name. And he knows the Broncos won't cover.
That example really had me scratching my head this morning. An Evangelical leader using a metaphor of a romantic or sexual fling with another man to describe the reason they're meeting was quite odd.
You really need to hear it to get the full effect. Like I said, it really woke my wife and me up yesterday morning when we heard it at 6:15 a.m.
I'm sure some strategist or two has already plotted Tebow's political future. Whether said strategist has actually consulted Tebow... well, I doubt it.
So they settled on Santorum Perry REALLY screwed up. I mean, we already knew that, but boy...this should've been him.
They're the wrong kind of Christian for a start, and I'm sure quite a few who did go to this meeting probably would prefer there to be fewer hispanics. Maybe one hopeful could change his name to Jesus Candidate next time, and try to appeal to all the religious types.
OK, let me explain the joke. The Spanish version of Jesse is Jesus, pronounced Hey Zeus. It is a fairly common name among Latin Americans.
And furthermore, the real Jesus only speaks Spanish. Obvious, since he speaks Spanish in the Reina-Valera Bible, which is the true original version inspired by God.
I was trying to work a joke, but it was half arsed, and it didn't work. Oh and Mr. Warmth, you must feel so big insulting someone thousands of miles away. Anyway, US politics is a joke in itself which is alarming as our politicians try to copy your techniques, but without the stupid bible bashing nonsense thankfully.
Well only if you are a fundamentalist. http://www.ask.com/wiki/Reina-Valera "However, the 1960 revision became the common Bible of many millions of Spanish-speaking Christians around the world, surpassing the 1909 in its reception. Almost all Hispanic Fundamentalists use it, despite further attempts to revise it." A way to go around the black-out http://www.ask.com/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Spanish "The most widely accepted Catholic Bible is the "Biblia de Jerusalén". Its first Spanish translation was published in 1967 and was revised in 1973. It is also available in a modern Latin American version, and comes with full introductory texts and comments." Since most Latinos are RC I guess that the gods Spanish book must be this version Then again to me all versions make equally good rolling papers (jk).