Sure, faith could sorta be your “guide”, but i think faith is more like a compass on your journey home to a loved one. A compass could be the most useful tool for survival, but it is not why you’re on the journey. Your compass points you north, toward your destination, toward home. Even if you’re lost, North is what keeps you going. North is why you walk through the darkness, the pelting rain, the burning fire; North is why you don’t stop even when you’re compass seems broken and you’re lost in miles of void. Because you know that North is where Home is, and as long as you keep moving in the direction your compass was pointing, you’ll find North, you’ll find Home.
Allow me to paraphrase with an analogy:
“When I was lost in that forest, my compass is what kept me going. My compass is my salvation and brought me through some very stressful times. My compass is why I am standing here today. My compass points me North, and I believe North also sustained me through some hardships. I’m unashamed to say that North tells me to live a life based on the principles I learned in Eagle Scout Training”.
ah yes, the wonderful wishy-washiness of politicians’ faith. Use the lovely terms of faith, integrity, and Higher Being, and you’re sure to grab the gullible. Simply using vague and ‘acceptably inoffensive’ terms.
Religion and faith are almost by nature offensive to the naturalistic norm. So why not just be truthful and say: “I’m a dude who subscribes to the teaching of Jesus Christ and his early followers which composed the New Testament companion to the Jewish Old Testament.” ?
In the true sense of Judaeo-Christianity, your guide would be the God of the Bible. I think McCain knows this, but he’s a politician. He needs to honey-coat his words, or rather, throw some wax paper over them.
Generic terms allow him to appeal to a bunch of religions. This would include even those who might not subscribe to the idea of a higher being. Wishy-washy christians, buddhists, hindus, secularized muslims, universalists, rosicrucians, etc. — all of these can now safely vote for McCain. Because, awwww, he’s a man of faith and the “higher being” he’s referring to might be my higher being, which at the moment is LOST, 9pm/8c Thursdays on ABC.
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