McCain Says He's Been Baptist for Years

[G_j]

:yoiks::rofl:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6927284,00.html

McCain Says He's Been Baptist for Years

Monday September 17, 2007 4:31 AM


By BRUCE SMITH

Associated Press Writer

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years.

Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state, McCain called himself a Baptist when speaking to reporters Sunday and noted that he and his family have been members of the North Phoenix Baptist Church in his home state of Arizona for more than 15 years.

``It's well known because I'm an active member of the church,'' the Arizona senator said.

While McCain has long talked about his family's and his own attendance at the Arizona church, he appears to have consistently referred to himself as Episcopalian in media reports.

In a June interview with McClatchy Newspapers, the senator said his wife and two of their children have been baptized in the Arizona Baptist church, but he had not. ``I didn't find it necessary to do so for my spiritual needs,'' he said.

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[saltpoint]

1. McCain may be suffering from Demographics Delusional Syndrome.

It's a debilitating affliction, common among career politicians, but especially prevalent in Republican populations in predominantly red states.

Sadly, it is incurable, Treatments traditionally include locking the afflicted person in a dark basement and leaving him there, at least through the end of the next two election cycles.

[G_j]

4. I like the treatment.. n/t

[HughMoran]

2. McCain is a psychopath

...just ignore him - he's lost it.

[gratuitous]

3. So, what won't McCain say?

I mean, it's been a recurring theme for the Democratic candidates for the last four or five election cycles: "So and so will say anything to get elected." Now, Episcopalian Sen. Straight Talk says he's Baptist! Will anyone in the popular media dare say or even intimate that McCain is pandering, and that he'll say anything to get elected? Or does the trump rule of IOKIYAR come into play?

[Solly Mack]

5. foot-washing, back-sliding, once saved always saved, eating chicken on the ground

blood of the lamb bona fide baptist?

Just curious...

[MonkeyFunk]

6. A Bapto-Episcal?

isn't that a stomach medicine?

[King Coal]

7. Well, he did refuse to make love while standing up, so nobody would think he was dancing.

[nuxvomica]

8. Can someone be an unbaptized Baptist?

And if he wants to call himself a Baptist, what's so difficult about having the baptism and getting it over with? Is he afraid of drowning? I guess I don't understand Protestantism.

[Bluerthanblue]

9. not that i'm aware of...

baptism, in some form is required by all "Baptist" believers-

been there, done that in a river, total immersion- but they did allow 'sprinkling' for special exceptions where people couldn't do total -

I don't understand Mc Cain-

you seem to understand the fundamentals behind Protestantism better than McCain does-
:shrug:

:hi:

[Tyler Durden]

10. Do they have a SHITHEAD category on the Religion checklist?