A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Jesus and Hillary Clinton

This story about Hillary Clinton’s religious convictions at Mother Jones starts out interesting but veers distinctly into paranoia.

I carry no water for HRC’s candidacy, but it seems to me that what you see is pretty much what you get: a centrist-to-conservative Democrat, as amply demonstrated by her voting record. She is not the socialist harridan of so much right-wing imagination. But the idea that she’s some kind of crypto-Religious Right Manchurian Candidate is one of the least plausible accounts of her true motivations I’ve ever heard.

Also, the suggestion that supposed HRC influences Reinhold Neibuhr and Paul Tillich taught that Christians should focus on individual piety instead of social change is laughable.

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