Jamie Glazov published today a fascinating interview with Paul Kengor, author of the first spiritual biography of the former first lady, God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life. Kengor says,
She is a classic, textbook-case of a Religious Left politician. Through this book, I was eager to remind a theologically ignorant media and secular nation that not everyone who is a religious believer is a “fundamentalist.” . . . Hillary’s denomination—the United Methodist Church—has moved so far to the left that
millions of faithful Methodists have permanently parted ways with their church, despite a deep heritage of Methodism within their families. Hillary’s church is on-the-record as officially supporting legalized abortion, and has even joined the tragically misguided Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. It is for those reasons in particular that Hillary says she is “so comfortable in this church.”
Hillary is also part of a long tradition of “social justice” Christians. These are the folks who have concluded that when Jesus calls on them to help the poor—which he did quite clearly, of course—that he favored a system of collectivism and forced wealth redistribution, including 50-plus percent upper-income tax rates, an estate tax, a capital gains tax, sales taxes, taxes on fuel, taxes on cigarettes, property taxes, government-subsidized healthcare, daycare, $5,000-bonds for newborns, and so on; and that’s just a starter. They rightly understand that God wants all of us to be good stewards of the environment, but can be downright dogmatic in insisting that if the Almighty were here today he would cast into a lake of fire all those who don’t support the Kyoto Treaty.
They invoke the teachings of Christ not in a way that demands private charity—which, in my view, is really the mandate of Scripture—but in a way that leads to an explosion in government. Many of these folks turn Jesus Christ into a socialist.
Hillary has cited Christ as the guiding force for her government healthcare. . . . (more)