Katherine Harris: "God wanted me to make public service a part of my life"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

March 20, 2006
Katherine Harris plays the 'God card' with some unsavory characters
Posted 10:46 am

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/6896.html

Rep. Katherine Harris' (R-Fla.) Senate campaign is clearly facing serious trouble — down in the polls, lagging fundraising, zero institutional support, a scandal or two hanging overhead — but like too many Republican candidates, she has one tactic to fall back on: the God card.

More than 800 conservative Christians were attending a two-day annual conference called Reclaiming America for Christ at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale. Harris received a standing ovation when she arrived at the pulpit.

She told the crowd that she studied under Francis Schaeffer in Geneva, Switzerland. Schaeffer is considered a founder of the modern evangelical movement, which encourages advocating Christian beliefs in public life. Schaeffer, in his book A Christian Manifesto, called for Christian activists to demand "biblical morality" in government affairs.

Harris, a Presbyterian, said she "redirected my life to the Lord when I was only in the third grade." She said she was "blessed to be raised in a godly family." Harris also said that she never would have entered politics if she did not believe that God wanted her to make public service part of her life. She added, "Everything is possible with God."

[NanceGreggs]

1. I suppose God also told her ...

... to dress like a floozy!!!

:rofl:

[fooj]

3. And get new boobs, too!!!!!!!!!

Oh...I forgot...to stick them out as far as she could!

LOL!!

Peace.

[Fridays Child]

15. And flirt like a shameless Jezebel during a session of the House.

[fooj]

16. JEZEBEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! I haven't heard that in soooo long!

Perfect description, BTW.:hi:

[Jack from Charlotte]

18. "Boobs" is such an unseemly word..... I prefer .."fun bags." *

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[maxsolomon]

2. if you don't publically love Jesus, forget public office in amurka.

make sure you pray in public, hypocrite.

[MadMaddie]

4. It's funny they find God when they are in legal trouble...

the hypocracy....

[blondeatlast]

5. Did He also pay for the implants?

He definitely didn't pay for the Mary Kay refurbish.

[catnhatnh]

6. I think what God meant,sweetheart....

is that you should be publically forced to service every citizen you fucked out of their vote in the 2000 election...Start with Florida but you owe the whole country, and then I guess you could start on Iraq,etc,etc...

[gratuitous]

7. Don't worry, Cruella

I think "community service" counts as "public service" with the Almighty. Better start matching your foundation color to go with an orange jump suit.

[Maine-ah]

14. "Cruella"

ROFLMFAO:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

8. "Reclaiming America for Christ"

Is that like reclaiming ferilizer from sewage sludge?

[rusty_parts2001]

9. As a pinup model, you're great.

As a Congresscritter, you're despicable. Go back to Longboat (or Bananaboat or whatever boat) you came from.

[cboy4]

10. Her disgraceful, lying, cheating actions in Florida during the 2000

election were hardly "christian."

Besides, when is she going to have time to run -- isn't she carrying Sean Hannity's love child?

[CottonBear]

11. Did God tell you to help to steal the 2000 election for Chimpy? n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. She's a transsexual right?

[Kenergy]

13. "Everything is possible with God"

And ten million dollars to bribe election officials with.

<sarcasm off>

[regnaD kciN]

17. ..."because God has a sense of humor, too!"

:evilgrin:

So, she studied under Francis Schaeffer? That explains a lot of things (except why she mentions Geneva, since Schaeffer's home/education center was in the mountains on the other side of the lake, closer to Montreux). Schaeffer, aside from being one of the precursors of the Religious Right, was also an anti-Catholic bigot who thought Rome responsible for "secular humanism" (because their theology included "pagan philosophy" -- i.e. Aristotle's categories of form, matter, and causality :eyes: -- instead of simply relying on the literal words of the Bible).

He also claimed that Michaelangelo's "David" was the beginning of pornography. And that Gregorian Chant was somehow un-Christian because it was "mystical." And that real music didn't exist until the Reformation, when Protestant composers like Bach came along, freed from the conventions of Roman "mysticism." (As Dave Barry might say, I'm not making this up.) :crazy:

What made him so significant in the Religious Right was his "starting-off" point that a society/civilization needs religious beliefs to maintain stability, and, that as a religion loses its grip, so the nation/society/civilization itself shall inevitably crumble away and collapse. Thus, he was the first to, IMHO, put the cart before the horse by placing the nation/society (as typified by the mythical "good old days" in America before the 1960s) in the real, unspoken place of primacy, while relegating God to a position of being vital mainly to protect said nation/society. Which, as far as I'm concerned, amounts to making the state into an idol. (Not to mention the point, obvious to everyone except Schaeffer and his devotees, that, if you simply need religion to uphold society, virtually any religion will do. One might as well establish Judaism or Islam as the official religion of the U.S. -- hey, even Hinduism or certain forms of Buddhism would work every bit as well for providing support for society's structure.)

Back in 1978, a church near where my ex and I were living was showing a film series based on Schaeffer's "How Then Should We Live?" It was fun showing up every Sunday night to ask a lot of embarrassing questions during the discussion period, poking holes in Schaeffer's hypothesis and extremely questionable view of history. I doubt it made much of an impression on most of the lemmings...I mean congregation watching the series, who seemed to accept everything Schaeffer said as if the film's reels had been carried down from heaven by a flight of angels. :eyes:

BTW, I heard that Schaeffer's son Frankie, the heir-apparent to his father's movement, recently abandoned fundamentalism and converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. Talk about a "mystical," non-fundamentalist version of Christianity -- that must have his father spinning in his grave!

[gratuitous]

22. Thanks for the refresher on Schaeffer

I'd forgotten quite a bit of what I used to know about him. A friend of mine used to see and correspond with the a now-deceased Christian musician who had some personal contact with Son Frankie. The fellow's estimation of Frankie was, "Ooooh, Frankie's a scary moon monster." Strange to hear that the son, long groomed to succeed Daddy, jumped into a “heretical” faith.

[jwirr]

19. Too bad she has been too busy serving the devil.

[Talismom]

20. How 'bout serving at a soup kitchen, bitch?! n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

21. Did she mention Guns and Abortion???

What a dumb-ass. You have to use all three to really capture the hearts of your average Republican.

[bobbieinok]

23. fundie preacher day after 2000 election had his congregation

pray that 'God will put his had in the ballot boxes in FL'.....students told me God had done so and W was divinely chosen

I said my God doesn't steal elections.....they just stared uncomprehendingly at me