You Can’t Make This Up: Donald Trump Questions Hillary’s Faith!

Donald Trump was asked, less than a year ago, what his favorite Bible verse was, and he refused to answer the question on the grounds that it was "too personal." This is a guy who said less than six months ago that he's never felt the need to ask for forgiveness from God. Now he's trying to suggest that Hillary presents a problem because no one knows anything about her faith?

Actually quite a lot is known about Hillary Clinton's faith. Like, waaaayyy more than is known about Trump's "faith." Entire scholarly books have been written about it. She is a well known socially liberal Methodist, which is a pretty well known quantity in terms of doctrine in America. You might not like it, but to suggest that her faith is the subject of some mystery is absolutely baffling.For Trump to suggest it really is hypocritical.

(RedState)

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According to the Religious News Service,

“As a girl, Hillary was part of the guild that cleaned the altar at First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Ill. As a teen, she visited inner-city Chicago churches with the youth pastor, Don Jones, her spiritual mentor until his death in 2009.”

A Time magazine profile, which ran under the headline “Hillary Clinton: Anchored by Faith,” had this to say about Clinton’s early religious training:

Time, June 27, 2014: Clinton grew up attending First United Methodist Church of Park Ridge in Chicago, where she was confirmed in sixth grade. Her mother taught Sunday school, and Clinton was active in youth group, Bible studies and altar guild. On Saturdays during Illinois’s harvest season, she and others from her youth group would babysit children of nearby migrant workers.

The article notes that in college at Wellesley, “Clinton regularly read the Methodist Church’s Motive magazine,” that she and Bill Clinton were married by a Methodist minister, and that in 1993, she joined a women’s prayer group.

When Bill Clinton was president, the Clinton family regularly attended Washington’s Foundry United Methodist Church. Hillary Clinton spokeat the church’s 200 anniversary in September. In that address, she spoke about the Methodist churches she attended as a child, in college, in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor, and in Washington, D.C., when he served as president

In place after place after place,” Clinton said, “the Methodist church and my fellow Methodists have been a source of support, honest reflection and candid critique.”

During a presidential forum in 2007, Clinton said that “a lot of the talk about and advertising about faith doesn’t come naturally to me.” She said that faith “is something that — you know, I keep thinking of the Pharisees and all of Sunday school lessons and readings that I had as a child. But I think your — your faith guides you every day. Certainly, mine does. But, at those moments in time when you’re tested, it — it is absolutely essential that you be grounded in your faith.

CNN noted that in May 2015, Clinton impressed a voter in a bakery after she cited and discussed Corinthians 13 on the spot.

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