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^Your last sentence summed it up.

I have no problem with faith proclaimations, but who gets in front of a reporter or camera and makes that statement? One of the biggest problems with Christian politicians is that they need to do more like:

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

The idea of that is that is many people seem to share their faith for attention. I do not pretend to know the secret heart of mankind, but at the same time, many politicians understand that just by saying they are a Christian, they will gain thousands of votes. I can make that assumption about votes because I know dozens and dozens of people that vote based on which candidate is more "Christian" than the other. I have no real problem with that because every person is entitled to their vote for any candidate and for any reason. Yet that can get dangerous in the world we live.

Tell me if I am wrong, because I do not think I am. A republican could NEVER get their parties nomination if they were not a professing Christian. They do not have to attend church or give sermons or evangelize but they have to have the label and and make that statement. Actively going to church and having a "faith that bears fruit" only helps them. A democrat would never HAVE to be a professing Christian to win their primary, maybe the general election, but not the primary. If they were an active Christian, if they evangelized, if they had "fruits of the spirit" evident in their lives, it might HURT their chances in the primary. I do not like that system. At one time (I no longer hold a party affiliation, and will NOT vote in any local primary or general election, and my only vote will be for president, if that. If anyone wants to know I will explain but it is for personal pastoral reasons) in high school I was a registered democrat but for reasons of fiscal and war policy not social issues. Whenever voting time would come around, and I would tell the Young Republicans club that I was a democrat when asked about election matters, I got responses like "BABY KILLER", "YOU HATE JESUS", "YOU SUPPORT ABORTIONS AND GAY PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED", I am 99% sure the same kind of things would happen on the other side of the fence as well because I heard Young Democrats say, "Those Jesus-loving republicans are ignorant", "Who could believe in a God that told people to do the Crusades" "They want to give money to the filthy billionaires" etc....

Why do people have to categorize others because of what is on their voter registration card? Just because you are affiliated with a party does NOT mean you hold to every single issue that they believe. The reg. card I was handed had 3 options, Dem Rep or Ind, if I remember correctly. In the county that I am from, you could not cast a real vote in the primary if you were a democrat because there were never two democrats running for the same office. There was NEVER an independent running for anything, so why register independent, (I thought then, that is what I am registered now, I think)

Sorry for the small rant-like posts, lol. Back to the question at hand.