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Politics, Pragmatism, and the SBC’s Red-Headed Step-Child

Richard Land (Click Here) and Don Wilton (Click Here, Click Here, and Click Here) are political pragmatists:

THEY HAVE JUMPED IN THE BED WITH MITT ROMNEY!!!

Politics makes strange bedfellows:
 
Political interests can bring together people who otherwise have little in common. This saying is adapted from a line in the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare: “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” It is spoken by a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping monster.

Land and Wilton are willing to overlook a candidate in their own camp (Mike Huckabee) to endorse another  candidate (Mitt Romney) who has a better chance of winning.

Wilton, embracing Land’s pragmatic approach, stated: “While we may not agree on theology, Governor Romney and I agree that this election is about our country heading in the right direction.”

We finally have a presidential candidate (Mike Huckabee) who is a bona-fide  Theological/Political Conservative! and the SBC’s Talking Heads are treating him like a red-headed step-child! (Huckabee told the Religious-Right, “I’m here not as one who comes to you, but one who comes from you”).

Red-headed Step-child: a child who is treated worse than other children in the family.

By endorsing Romney, Land and Wilton are really saying:

‘Mike Huckabee is one of us; he ALWAYS has been one of us; he has the same values as us . . .  HOWEVER, the secular media is informing us that Huckabee doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in . . .uh, Hades . . . to win the election (Hans Wunch hit the nail on the head in his assessment). THEREFORE, we must practically vote for Mitt Romney. We encourage every Southern Baptist to toss values out of the window and vote practically, for the greater good of our nation.’

The so-called Religious Right  (aka Christian-Right) is the most powerful political machine in the United States.  Its slogan is and always has been: “Vote Values.” Yet, in all reality, it is telling us: “Vote Pragmatically” or, in other words, ”Vote for the conservative candidate (he doesn’t have to be the most conservative one) who has the greatest chance to win!

It is a sad day in SBC life when our leaders treat one of our own like a red-headed step-child!

I close with this article (Click Here) . . . it says it all!

Selah,

chadwick

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9 Comments on “Politics, Pragmatism, and the SBC’s Red-Headed Step-Child”

  1. Quinn Hooks Says:

    October 23, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    We live in amazing times! Dr. Wilton in his explanation says that he didn’t expect his endorsement to go national. Word of advice, dear Friends, treat every microphone as live and every camera as being on! Read more here:

    http://sbcghostrecon.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/wilton-admits-mistake/

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  2. Debbie Kaufman Says:

    October 23, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    Hold on to your hat Chadwick…… I agree with you 100% and I am so glad that you wrote this. I am seriously thinking with your permission to link this to my next post. The points you have made are exactly what I have felt from the beginning of the Presidential campaign.

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  3. chadwick Says:

    October 23, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Debbie,

    (picking myself up out of the floor from hyper-shock) . . .

    You can use anything that I post, even without my permission . . . for the good or the bad! :D

    chadwick

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  4. hottubreligion Says:

    October 23, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    The views of Land and Wilton will influence many believers.As Evangelical Christians we must learn to to think for ourselves.There is a danger of getting into an intellectual lock-step with others so that we end up uncritically buying into a prescribed theology and a partisian political agenda.
    bp

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  5. genembridges Says:

    October 23, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    And here is the price we pay for reducing truth to ethics. If we can set aside theology for ethics and add a dash of statistical probability, then why not agree with liberals about Christianity itself. The essence of classical liberal Christianity is minimal doctrine, heavy ethics.

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  6. hottubreligion Says:

    October 24, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    I can see Dr.Wilton before he preaches on Sunday morning saying,”Will you please stand in reverence to the reading of the “Book of Mormon.”
    bp

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  7. chadwick Says:

    October 24, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    hottub,

    The only thing I have in common with the Mormons is the underwear issue:

    They have holy underwear . . . while I have a few pair of holey underwear! :D

    chadwick

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