Hillary Clinton comes across as authentically religious

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By E.J. Dionne / Syndicated Columnist
Monday, September 12th, 2016 at 12:05am

WASHINGTON – This is the inversion election, a contest in which so many of our familiar mental categories have been turned upside down.
This year, it’s the Republican presidential candidate who says the United States isn’t great anymore and the Democrat who insists it is. The Republican says that the former KGB agent now presiding over Russia is a better leader than the president of the United States. The Democrat condemns him for it.

But last week reminded us that there is another role reversal in this election. There is one candidate who is authentically religious, who has thought seriously about what the Scriptures teach, and whose own view of the world was changed radically by her engagement with faith. Her name is Hillary Clinton.

Yes, I flinched when I typed that word “authentically.” How can we know whose faith is authentic or truly understand someone else’s relationship to God? It’s hard enough for most of us to come to terms honestly with our own relationship to the Almighty.

Moreover, I acknowledge that I bring a series of predispositions to my case here, beginning with the most basic: my conviction that Clinton is fit to be president and Donald Trump is not. More importantly in this context, her journey in wrestling with the relationship between religious commitment and political action was remarkably similar to my own.

https://www.abqjournal.com/843020/hillary-clinton-comes-across-as-authentically-religious.html

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1. Because she is...Here is a quote I love which reflects her Methodism...

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

Originally John Wesley...but Hillary today.

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2. A great quote to live by.

[DURHAM D]

3. Yes. Her motto since she joined the church at 11 - 12 yrs old.

She has always lived by it like baby sitting children of migrant workers (for free) at age 11.

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5. A good friend.

[Brettongarcia]

8. Hillary seems like a compassionate person

And you don't have to be religious to be that.

When she quotes religion here, she quotes St. James. Who put his emphasis often, on helping the poor in practical ways, practical works (James 2.14-26). As in New Orleans St. James infirmary, and equal opportunity.

Interestingly, she emphasizes the elements of Christianity that would most appeal to a secular humanist liberal, too: not very religious, spiritual things, as much as practical material help for the disadvantaged.

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9. Jimmy Carter is a superb example.

Even though he taught Sunday School for thirty years.