5 faith facts about Ben Carson: retired neurosurgeon, Seventh-day Adventist
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/04/5-faith-facts-ben-carson-twice-baptized-seventh-day-adventist/
Ben Carson speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons
Adelle M. Banks | May 4, 2015
(RNS) Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon once best known for separating conjoined baby twins, is expected to announce Monday (May 4) that he will pursue the Republican nomination for U.S. president. Carson is now known as a culture warrior whose criticisms of President Obama have made him a favorite of conservatives. Here are five faith facts about him:
1. He’s a twice-baptized Seventh-day Adventist.
In his book “Gifted Hands,” Carson, 63, describes being baptized as a boy by the pastor of Detroit’s Burns Seventh-day Adventist Church. At age 12, he told the pastor of another Adventist church in the Detroit suburb of Inkster, that he hadn’t completely grasped his first baptism and wanted to be baptized again.
Carson has served as an Adventist local elder and Sabbath school teacher. But he attends other churches. “I spend just as much time in non-Seventh-day Adventist churches because I’m not convinced that the denomination is the most important thing,” he told RNS in 1999. “I think it’s the relationship with God that’s most important.”
2. He prayed before starting any surgery.
“Even when I don’t operate, I pray because I feel that God is the ultimate source of all wisdom,” said Carson, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, a role that gave him the status of an African-American hero.
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Gifted Hands, my bad. I knew it was about hands at least. 
But yeah, his ego is HUGE.
Now, if you don't mind, my hamster is waiting to go on a bike ride to the nearest church, where we will pray for all the rotten people in the world.
Cheerio! 
homophobic individuals on the planet.
As I said, if you have zero interest in learning more about bigots, don't open threads about them.
FWIW, I loved the character in the movie, which should have been clear to any halfway intelligent person who read this thread. His politics played no role at all in the film and I see that this film could be a huge asset to him in his presidential campaign. That is what I was commenting on.
Personally, as I have made clear, I think he's a despicable homophobic republican who I hope has absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near the white house, even as a guest.
Sure.
Not sure on what plane of reality that's a "very, very negative assessment"
You really can't bear not having things both ways, can you? One minute, you want to love a virulently homophobic bigot, by your own words, and the next minute you want to look like you disapprove strongly of him. There's a word for that...
I wouldn't want that creationist whackjob anywhere near my loved ones.
What's irrational, cbayer, is professing your love for a hateful homophobic Republican asshole because he seemed heroic in a movie.
A couple that is white, straight and privileged in every way. Not christian? Neither are we.
to be able to sail around the world and work for citizenship in countries more tax friendly than the US.
Oh, and another difference between you and her, she recognizes her privilege every time I've ever seen an opportunity for it. You try to pass yourself off as basically homeless.
Daddy issues, perhaps? You should see a psychiatrist and try to work through it. You could probably find a nice Republican one who's a really good person, heroic maybe, underneath the greed and bigotry.
I know you're a tax exile, but don't they have mental health professionals (I mean real ones, not the ones you find in the Religion Group) in Mexico, too?
Note to Jury - yes, this is a personal attack. These people are despicable. They're the privileged, ignorant, entitled percentage that make DU suck. Carry on.
We've been told that SOME people's religious upbringing taught them to question everything 
SOME people boast about the "spirited" discussions they always had over the dinner table...even though there is no sign they ever learned to be discriminating thinkers.