“I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. Michael Vick killed dogs in a heartless and cruel way. I think, firstly, he should have been executed for that. The idea the president of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs is beyond the pale.”I have to interpret this as meaning that Mr. Carlson identifies himself as a Christian, but he only talks the talk and does not come close to walking the walk. Either that or his idea of Jesus seems to be more like the sainted Bill O"Reilly.
My big question is whether this is yet another attack on Christianity by FOX, which has already launched its Mormon attack via Glenn Beck, who is well known for his attacks on Christian churches for their concerns for social welfare. The Christian denominations base their concerns on the fact that Jesus speaks of the blessedness of the poor in the Sermon on the Mount.
However, that sermon is not in the Book of Mormon, suggesting that Beck's criticism was not so much political as it is a religious attack.
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Correction: The Book of Mormon does contain a form of the Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi. The basis for the attacks on religious concern for social welfare seems to be due to the misplaced zealotry of a new cathecumen, Mr. Beck, rather than some insidious plot by Joseph Smith.
I always had a soft spot in my heart for Joseph Smith, having lived near Mack Avenue in Detroit and points north and east, a road named after the merchant and politician Stephen Mack who was Smith's uncle, brother of Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of the latter-day prophet Joseph Smith.
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