Celebrity and position
Zach is quoting Andrew who is quoting Mark DeMoss.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from a post from Steven Waldman, the editor-in-chief of Belief.net:
Does anyone else remember Promise Keepers full on embrace and ordination of this guy at several of their stadium events?
Here’s an interesting excerpt from a post from Steven Waldman, the editor-in-chief of Belief.net:
Mark DeMoss, former chief of staff to Jerry Falwell and now a leading Christian public relations executive, is hoping that Palin turns out well but has been shocked and worried by the reflexive Christian embrace of her.
“Too many evangelicals and religious conservative are too preoccupied with values and faith and pay no attention to competence. We don’t apply this approach to anything else in life, including choosing a pastor.” Imagine, he said, if a church was searching for a pastor and the leadership was brought a candidate with great values but little experience. “They’ve been a pastor for two years at a church with 150 people but he shares our values, so we hired him to be pastor of our 5,000 person church? It wouldn’t happen! We don’t say, ‘He shares our values, so let’s hire him.’ That’s absurd. Yet we apply that to choosing presidents. It blows my mind.”
Does anyone else remember Promise Keepers full on embrace and ordination of this guy at several of their stadium events?
posted by mark at
10:43 PM
1 Comments:
Is that like hiring a preacher who gives an entertaining sermon, but who is unqualified to lead a church?
It's a scary proposition to choose people based on their ability to speak in public, isn't it Mark?
Would you hire a pastor simply based on his ability to give an entertaining, though substance free, sermon?
I wouldn't either.
The Democrats must be overwhelmed with panic right now. It can't be easy to try to convince people that a governor is less qualified than a Senator...who has hardly ever been on the Senate floor and who has never written a bill.
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