But if Church Lady’s main pro-life credential is going to be that she belongs to an ideologically safe congregation, you’d think the wing nuts would want to kick the tires a bit and look at how, well, faithful she’s been to the doctrines of her religion in the past.
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October 4, 2005
WB: Powerball for the Lord
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I can take the gambling accusation and raise it one total health:
http://greyhairsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/secular-health.html
Powerball is up to 180 million, wonder what the demographics and (in this case) political persuasion of the powerball winners are. According to their website, a master sergeant assigned to the 58th Training Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico won 93 mill last time. I’d be interested to know the break-down.
Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 4 2005 20:31 utc | 3
Thanks for pointing to the Valley View website, Billmon.
I noted this interesting passage here:
We try not to be dogmatic about matters on which believers hold divergent views. Our core beliefs are centered in Christ and His message as supported by Scripture. More obscure doctrine, as well as controversial issues about which the Bible is silent, are left to believers to sort out on their own. On these issues we take no official/dogmatic position.
I find that somewhat encouraging….
Posted by: Kman | Oct 4 2005 20:36 utc | 4
for all you yankees and other heathens in faraway lands…
From my understanding of the “Christian” denomination, it’s the place for intellectuals to go to avoid the Baptists, etc.
It thinks of itself as a “teaching” church that doesn’t do fire and brimstone and all that.
People can even drink a glass of wine or go to the prom at their high school without fear of eternal damnation.
They’re still fundamentalists…inerrancy is part of their doctrine, as far as I know…so it’s sort of like the Episcopal church if the Episcopal church was the Christian church and the Catholic church was the Baptists.
That makes lots of sense, I’m sure…
fwiw.
Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 4 2005 23:15 utc | 5
Well, the Rev. Dobson says Valley View is plenty flacky enough for him:
He added, “She is a conservative Christian.” He confirmed that Miers is an evangelical Christian. “I know the church she goes to, and I know the people who go to church with her.”
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 5 2005 3:46 utc | 6
Miers Briefed Bush on Bin Laden PDB, But Papers Handle Photo From That Day Quite Differently
Oct. 4, 2005
… “On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.
USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001.
Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?”
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Posted by: Noisette | Oct 5 2005 20:37 utc | 7