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TechnoratiThe Blasphemy Challenge, which encourages people to tape themselves with a short message that will “damn themselves to hell,” seemed to reach a lot of young people, noted Michael Mickey, who launched the Praise the Lord Challenge.
“[S]o our hope is we can get youth leaders and pastors ... to try to get young people [particularly] to reach out to that young audience that visits YouTube and demonstrate their faith in the Lord Jesus," he said, according to One News Now.
2. The Presidential Race
The 2008 presidential campaign kicked off earlier than usual and with more candidates than usual, making its mark in history more than a year before the elections. And like the last presidential race, faith has been playing a significant role.
Unlike the last race, however, Christians across the nation are very much divided.
In July, an Associated Press poll found that the majority of Republicans, when given the choice on who they want as the next GOP candidate, answered “none of the above.”
As September rolled around white men, conservatives, evangelicals and other pivotal blocs were still divided among the Republican Party's leading contenders for president, leaving the race for the 2008 GOP nomination highly fluid, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.
“Overall, the survey underscores that no contender has yet to convincingly make the case that he is the candidate for change that so many voters want as the party searches for its identity and a successor to Bush,” AP reported.
Furthermore, with pro-choice candidate Rudy Giuliani leading the Republican pack, rumors circulated that a coalition of over 50 pro-family leaders was “considering” throwing their support behind a third-party candidate.
Many admitted, however, that forming a third political party might unintentionally help elect democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Amid the uncertainty, conservatives and evangelicals were urged by some Christian leaders to “galvanize support” around presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who many believers have been hesitant to support because of his Mormon faith – which conservatives argue is antithetical to historic orthodox Christianity.
Still many concerned evangelicals have been opposed to the belief that Romney’s theological differences are less important than his seemingly shared conservative social values.
With Giuliani’s liberal values and Romney’s Mormon faith, more Christians have been flocking to former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister who mixes a folksy manner with an emphasis on his faith.
This month, Huckabee vaulted into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives.
The latest national AP-Ipsos survey found that Huckabee now has the support of 25 percent of white evangelical voters, 23 percent of conservatives and 28 percent of Southerners.
Overall, the poll showed Huckabee at 18 percent among Republican and GOP-leaning voters, 8 percentage points more than in an AP-Ipsos survey a month ago. Giuliani, who remains the front-runner, has 26 percent, about where he has been since spring. While the former New York mayor’s support long has been steady it shows signs of fraying. Continue »
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