Sen. Elizabeth Warren's religion is very important to her
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/elizabeth-warren-on-health-care-and-religion/2012/08/23/5c509058-ed6c-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.htmlOn Religious Faith and Public Life
Methodists believe in action. And that’s a part of goodness — a part of worship of God is to act.
I grew up in a Methodist church and I was a Sunday school teacher when we lived back in Texas. When I was making the decision whether to get into this Senate race, one of the important touch points for me was to read my bible. And it’s Matthew 25:40, you know the passage? For me, that passage is the heart of what I believe. Because what it says is “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these the least of these my bretheren. ...” (I still use the King James version, it’s beautiful).
It says three things: it says there is God in...the hungry, the poor, the stranger, there is God in each of us. Because. Remember, it says “you did it unto me.” And that’s saying God was in, God is in, the poor, the thirsty, the stranger.
But then part two is he never asks the question of going to heaven and hell, what your intent was, the question was: Did you act? And those who gave meat to the hungry, those who gave water to the thirsty, those who welcomed the stranger in, were the ones that God welcomed to heaven. ... It stresses the importance of community, because it says, in fact, it’s about action and it’s about action together.
And that’s how I read Matthew 25:40. And it’s why I’m in this race.
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“We supported the Caracol Park because we knew it was going to be an extraordinary thing for the north,” then-Social Affairs Minister Josépha Raymond Gauthier told Haiti Grassroots Watch (HGW). “The park will allow us to ‘decentralize’ the country and create a northern ‘pole.’ It will also give people jobs in an extraordinary way!”
But a two-month investigation by HGW discovered that the number of jobs in the north is not yet “extraordinary,” and that many other promises have not yet been kept.
One year after it started operations, only 1,388 people work in the park; 26 of them are foreigners, and another 24 are security guards. Also, HGW research among a sampling of workers found that, at the end of the day, most have only 57 gourdes, or US$1.36, in hand after paying for transportation and food out of their 200 gourdes minimum wage (US$4.75) salary.
HGW also learned that most of the farmers kicked off the land to make way for the industrial park are still without land.
Commie! 
I'm particularly impressed with how you just "hunched" your way into claiming Warren is a better Christian than Hillary.
As an agnostic/athiest type, I'm generally not interested in who the better Christian is. But I am entertained by those who think they sit in judgement on such matters.
Usually, I see this behavior on display from the right, not the left.
And again, the thing I found particularly funny was how the attack on Hillary has gone from "she's pushing Christianity down our throats" to "she's not the right kind of Christian", once it became clear Warren had made similar remarks.
First Hillary is too Christian, then hours later, not Christian enough.
Sitting in judgement is hard work.
... of HRC's book "Living History" published in 2003. Mention of Coe is on page 168, in the Vince Foster chapter. The chapter covers: grief over death of her father, invasion of privacy within the family rooms of the WH, a "pitiless season in Washington," HRC "sustained by family friends, and faith."
On personal faith, pg. 167: "My religious faith has always been a crucial part of my life. Until he had his fatal stroke, my father knelt by his bed to say his prayers every night. And i shared his belief in the power and importance of prayer. I've often told audiences that if I hadn't believed in prayer before 1992, life in the White House would have persuaded me." >snip<
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My good friend Linda Lader) invited Tipper and me to a luncheon sponsored by a women's prayer group that included Democrats and Republicans..." (women who prayed with her, sent her Scripture readings, remained friends)
pg. 168: "The lunch on February 24, 1993, was held at the Cedars, an estate on the Potomac that serves as headquarters for the National Prayer Breakfast and the prayer groups it has spawned around the world Doug Coe, the longtime National Prayer Breakfast organizer, is a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God and offer the gift of service to others in need. Doug became a source of strength and friendship, and, too, often sent me notes of support. All these relationships began at that extraordinary lunch."
And that's it. Twenty-two years ago she was in desperate need of human friendship and spiritual relief at a time when the Clintons were under relentless attack and she was in grief over the death of her father and the suicide of a friend. The women's prayer group provided that, and from there she met the founder of the Prayer Breakfast, who we know is someone who exudes a certain kind of persona.
The questions I would ask today, 22 years later, are these: Has Hillary seen Rachel Maddow's interview with Jeff Sharlett or read his book? Has she done any independent investigation to determine to her own satisfaction if Sharlett's research is true? (I'm sure it is true, but I'd like to know about HRC.) Has she maintained a relationship with Coe or any significant member of his group since then? If she no longer has a relationship, when did she cease, and why? Is she prepared to oppose the machinations of this group when it appears to be machinating?
My ballot for 2016 is not filled in -- I'm not coming at this from the standpoint of "Hillary's the One and Only." But I do see her as a woman who has spent her lifetime in genuine public service, bent on social justice. I need a lot more evidence than the slurs currently being thrown about here on DU before I change my mind about her character.
Those are relevant questions today. 22 years ago, what could any of us have known about what The Family was up to?
"I wish". I wish for a lot of things that'll never hapen. And I know that it's a personal quirk, but I just think that religiosity should be as private as sexuality, and just as rude to ask about. But I'm a godless heathan, so, you knpw, grain of salt and all that. 
And I misspelled, I meant "The great god Om". From discworld. 
