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Religion, Politics and Tea Parties

Posted on | March 12, 2010 | 20 Comments

Richard Cizik is a fool, which explains why he’s a go-to source for Ben Smith of the Politico:

“As far as I can tell [the tea party movement] has a politics that’s irreligious. I can’t see how some of my fellow conservatives identify with it,” said Richard Cizik, who broke with a major evangelical group over his support for government action on climate change, but who remains largely in line with the Christian right on social issues. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the tea party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics.”

Cizik did not specify exactly where and how he “interacts” with these “younger Evangelicals,” but perhaps he met them through his fell0wship at the (Ted Turner-funded) United Nations Foundation. You reckon he got some of that Turner money for his new organization?

Oh, but global warming wasn’t the reason for Cizik’s split with the National Association of Evangelicals. NTTAWWT. 

Please see my further observations at the American Spectator blog.

Jumping in Pools has a poll on religion and politics.

Category: Politics, Religion, Tea Party

Comments

20 Responses to “Religion, Politics and Tea Parties”

  1. rod stanton
    March 12th, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

    So which evangelicals do not believe in Commandments # 8 – 10?

    I believe they are all valid; and have been for centuries.

    Could we maybe get a 2nd opinion from Sarah?
    BTW its my opinion that Politico is anti-conservative. So this fits their propaganda line very well.

  2. rod stanton
    March 12th, 2010 @ 2:09 pm

    So which evangelicals do not believe in Commandments # 8 – 10?

    I believe they are all valid; and have been for centuries.

    Could we maybe get a 2nd opinion from Sarah?
    BTW its my opinion that Politico is anti-conservative. So this fits their propaganda line very well.

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  5. billhedrick
    March 12th, 2010 @ 10:59 pm

    I am a Christian, I fully committed my life to Christ 40 years ago, abandoning my self determined ambitions and dreams and sold all to follow Christ. That being said, a belief of any sort in the Judeo/Christian God is not a prerequisite to being a conservative. There are many flowers on the Conservative tree. It is quite conceivable to be a Atheist Fiscal Conservative, there are many of them. To deny them within the general movement, cuts off your nose to spite your face. It’s also arrogant in the extreme.

  6. billhedrick
    March 12th, 2010 @ 5:59 pm

    I am a Christian, I fully committed my life to Christ 40 years ago, abandoning my self determined ambitions and dreams and sold all to follow Christ. That being said, a belief of any sort in the Judeo/Christian God is not a prerequisite to being a conservative. There are many flowers on the Conservative tree. It is quite conceivable to be a Atheist Fiscal Conservative, there are many of them. To deny them within the general movement, cuts off your nose to spite your face. It’s also arrogant in the extreme.

  7. Live Free Or Die
    March 12th, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

    ” Evangelical…Mr Cizic, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”—Regards, Inigo

    St. Jude exhorts that we earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.Jude 1:3

    Or perhaps,Mr Cizic is following the way of Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
    2 Pet 2:15

  8. Live Free Or Die
    March 12th, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

    ” Evangelical…Mr Cizic, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”—Regards, Inigo

    St. Jude exhorts that we earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.Jude 1:3

    Or perhaps,Mr Cizic is following the way of Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
    2 Pet 2:15

  9. Mark30339
    March 13th, 2010 @ 1:47 am

    You’ve noticed Ben Smith too. I call him the vapid parrot.

  10. Mark30339
    March 12th, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

    You’ve noticed Ben Smith too. I call him the vapid parrot.

  11. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 13th, 2010 @ 6:49 am

    I call b.s.

    Is this really anything but an attempt to fracture the conservative movement? I don’t know any Tea Partiers that are angry, but I do know that the media loves to tell us that we are all a bunch of crazy loons. Furthermore, the religious right supports most of the tea party tenets, because a smaller government is less intrusive into the family unit, does not do things like make you pay for the murder of unborn children, and does not attempt to replace the family with a welfare state.

    The Tea Party freaks out the lefties and the RINOs because they know that it unites moderates, independents, evangelicals, and libertarians – a united front against the progressive movement.

  12. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 13th, 2010 @ 1:49 am

    I call b.s.

    Is this really anything but an attempt to fracture the conservative movement? I don’t know any Tea Partiers that are angry, but I do know that the media loves to tell us that we are all a bunch of crazy loons. Furthermore, the religious right supports most of the tea party tenets, because a smaller government is less intrusive into the family unit, does not do things like make you pay for the murder of unborn children, and does not attempt to replace the family with a welfare state.

    The Tea Party freaks out the lefties and the RINOs because they know that it unites moderates, independents, evangelicals, and libertarians – a united front against the progressive movement.

  13. Dandapani
    March 13th, 2010 @ 7:44 pm

    fell0wship?

  14. Dandapani
    March 13th, 2010 @ 2:44 pm

    fell0wship?

  15. billhedrick
    March 13th, 2010 @ 7:57 pm

    There is on the left a lack of discrete thinking (to be fair it exists on the right, but not so virulently) They conflate everyone who expresses a religious opinion with the Westboro bunch – ignoring the fact that Phelps is a democrat. They call a religious person who is polically conservative and active a”theocrat” Those that oppose illegal immigration are “racists” Those that oppose gay marriage are de facto homophobes.

  16. billhedrick
    March 13th, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

    There is on the left a lack of discrete thinking (to be fair it exists on the right, but not so virulently) They conflate everyone who expresses a religious opinion with the Westboro bunch – ignoring the fact that Phelps is a democrat. They call a religious person who is polically conservative and active a”theocrat” Those that oppose illegal immigration are “racists” Those that oppose gay marriage are de facto homophobes.

  17. Gabriella Adams
    May 24th, 2010 @ 7:54 pm

    In reality, no single religion could guarantee us a place in Heaven. In the end, what matters is how we a treat other people.~;’

  18. Gabriella Adams
    May 24th, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

    In reality, no single religion could guarantee us a place in Heaven. In the end, what matters is how we a treat other people.~;’

  19. Charles Cox
    July 28th, 2010 @ 10:52 am

    actually it doesn’t matter what Religion you may have, as long as you treat the other person right.~..

  20. Charles Cox
    July 28th, 2010 @ 6:52 am

    actually it doesn’t matter what Religion you may have, as long as you treat the other person right.~..