Pete Buttigieg: God doesn't belong to a political party, but 'I can't imagine' God would be a Repub

[babylonsister]

Pete Buttigieg: God doesn't belong to a political party, but 'I can't imagine' God would be a Republican
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By Dan Merica, CNN


Washington (CNN)South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has made clear throughout his upstart 2020 presidential bid that he believes Democrats should embrace religion and decry those who try to suggest God belongs to one political party or another.

But in an interview with NBC's Today Show that aired on Tuesday, Buttigieg suggested that if God did have a political affiliation, it wouldn't "be the one that sent the current president into the White House."

Buttigieg told NBC that he talks about religion in an effort to convince people to "stop seeing religion as a kind of cudgel as if God belonged to a political party."

The mayor immediately followed up that comment by adding, "And if he did, I can't imagine it would be the one that sent the current president into the White House."

Buttigieg went on to say "what we see (in the White House) is so different than what I hear in scripture when I am in church."

"I hear about taking care of the marginalized and defending the weak and supporting the poor and visiting the prisoner and welcoming the stranger and humility and decency," he said. "These are the things that are taught in Sunday schools around this country. And so the idea that that is the property of the Republican Party, especially this Republican Party and some of the choices they have made in recent years, it just doesn't add up to me."

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/politics/pete-buttigieg-god-political-party-republican/index.html?no-st=1557247330

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Exactly right, Mayor Pete!

The Republicans have zero interest in caring for the prisoner and helping the poor or homeless, or any other good idea. They want the money and forget all the true Christian values that all religions have in common.

That party is unfit for public office, period.

[watoos]

2. No she wouldn't.

[pangaia]

3. Why assume there is a god? And if there is, why does god have a 'gender?'

And if there is a god, with a gender, why a 'he?'

[babylonsister]

5. Mayor Pete is religious.

I personally am not, but he's allowed to believe whatever he wants, right?

[pangaia]

6. Yes, of course he is. I didn't say he wasn't. Just a question...

In fact I am not saying there is not 'god,' whatever that is.

It is a term with SO MANY different meanings ---

[crazytown]

7. That is not what he said.

He said if there was a God who belonged to a political party, “I can't imagine it would be one that sent the current president into the White House”

[pangaia]

8. I didn't read it as ,"if there were a god..."

Rather, that there IS a god and if HE belonged to a political party, etc..

But I could be wrong..

[crazytown]

9. You're right.

I projected my own world view onto Pete’s words. Sorry. I try not to misrepresent anyone, friend or foe. :embarrassed:

[pangaia]

11. :embarrassed: ? Gee why?

LOL

[crazytown]

12. Why? I replied 'this is what he actually said'

:dummy:

[pangaia]

13. Eh.... nothing like missing one of the cymbal crashes toward the end of

the GREAT GATE OF KIEV in PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION. I have actually done that !

[crazytown]

14. Funny how we remember moments of humiliation

more clearly than anything else.

Being introduced to a mixed German volleyball team while I was naked in a shower made GOTV an ‘unforgettable’ holiday.

[crazytown]

4. This misquotes Mayor Pete

[MineralMan]

10. Well, if you believe the Bible, God was big on Kings.

I don't believe any of that stuff, though, so it's immaterial to me.

[NYMinute]

15. Mayor Pete is amazing in his rhetoric

Shows that he is a Rhodes scholar and a Harvard grad.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. I feel like this is a mixed message.

"We shouldn't try to make God belong to a party. We shouldn't use God as a cudgel. If he DID have a political party, he TOTALLY wouldn't be a REPUBLICAN, AMIRITE??"

[renate]

18. good point, but addressing GOP hypocrisy isn't quite equivalent to using God politically himself IMO

I'm not disagreeing with you, because on the face of it it does seem as though he's playing God politics. I'm just thinking that all those statements aren't exclusive to each other, since they're all true, and he's just pointing out the hypocrisy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Hmmm. Not the smartest political move (alienates)...but love what he said

[SidDithers]

19. See, I totally believe that God is a Republican...

I mean, have you read the Bible?



Sid