Devout Catholics Back Sarah Palin
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (09/21/08)
Pew Research Center and backup polls report that devout Roman Catholics have found a friend in Sarah Palin.
What is not known to many is that Sarah Palin was as an infant baptized Roman Catholic. Then her parents turned to Pentecostalism, specifically the Assembly of God. Consequently, she was reared in evangelical Protestantism.
What evangelicals and devout Catholics have in common is high regard for the Bible as divine revelation, believing Christ as Savior God, and the biblical moral base.
They both also hold that each human being is accountable to the God of the Bible at the Judgment Seat of Christ. That means that both attempt to live out the Christ ethic as stated in Scripture.
Evangelicals and devout Catholics believe in heaven and hell, saving grace bestowed upon the genuinely repentant and that the purpose of this existence is to exhibit Christ incognito.
Therefore, when it comes to evangelical Sarah Palin, evangelicals and devout Catholics are regarded as “conservatives” while renegade Catholics and theologically apostate Protestants are considered drastically out of step from the will of God.
Evangelicals and devout Catholics, for instance, agree with Sarah Palin in conforming with God’s abhorrence of abortion. They also support Sarah Palin’s definition of marriage and family in line with the biblical data.
They endorse the Judeo-Christian heritage of this nation as well as secularism being the enemy of religious expression in public life.
Devout Catholics do not find a home in the B. Husein Obama / Joe Biden den. They are repulsed by that duo seeking to mesh all religions as one, discounting biblical morality for moral relativism, and defining deity in any terms convenient.
Devout Catholics consider the Dem twosome as loathsome for B. Hussein Obama and Joe Biden will undercut traditional Catholic ethics, supplanting the Vatican positions with anti-God political opportunism.
Obviously rebel Catholics are at war against devout Catholics. Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry, as examples, represent that stubborn segment intent on undermining the tenets of their own church. They are brazen.. They are outspoken. And they have no respect whatsoever for church authority, let alone the Scriptures as the Word of the Almighty God.
Pelosi, Kennedy and Kerry, for instance, have consistently ditched Catholic law for writing their own definition of religious faith. They have sidelined bishopric warnings. They have informed media that no one finally will tell them anything concerning spirituality but what they consider convenient for their own careers.
They consequently have a form of religion but lack the power thereof. They in fact are agents of evil while masquerading as pious Roman Catholics.
In Sarah Palin devout Catholics recognize a sincere believer who knows she is ultimately answerable to the God of Scripture. That encourages devout Catholics who pray for more national leadership in keeping with their devotion to what they consider true faith.
Devout Catholics conclude that they could easily fellowship with Sarah Palin in worship, in prayer and in public witness for what Christ has set forth in the New Testament record.
For more, read Tim Collie’s “Palin Boosts McCain With Devout Catholic Voters” at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_mccain_catholics/2008/09/18/132268.html
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