Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel?

[AllieBaba]

Anybody can.

 

[Shogun]

they can.


Just add a following.



It's not as if the title minister is indicative of anything like an M.D. or Ph.D.


dimestore ministers are, well, a dime a dozen.

 

[mattskramer]

Sharpton was ordained a minister at the age of NINE years old? Sounds like anybody can become a "Reverand"...

Ordain

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ordain

to invest officially (as by the laying on of hands) with ministerial or priestly authority

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ordain

To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on.

Look at these places where you can become ordained:

http://www.ordain.org/

http://www.ulc.net/

http://northernway.org/ordain.shtml

Graduate School can decide what transcripts from what particular colleges it will accept (and what courses a particular college will allow to be transferred to its school); individuals will decide what ordinations they will recognize and respect.

In that sense, you can decide that you don’t recognize Sharpton as a reverend because you don’t recognize the person or organization that ordained him.

I just say that you should be careful and not discount one’s ordination or reverend status just because you don’t like his socio-political philosophy.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

they can.


Just add a following.



It's not as if the title minister is indicative of anything like an M.D. or Ph.D.


dimestore ministers are, well, a dime a dozen.

And we are supposed to give them some sort of special respect and believe that they are pillars of Christian religion just because someone "ordains" them and they call themselves "Reverand"?

This is why a person's actual record is so important. Jackson and Sharpton's records are not so great imo, given their scandals. I'm not too impressed with Obama's minister either, given his racial bias. And although Huckabee is not all that impressive, as far as I can tell he at least has a decent ministry record.

He graduated magna cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University, completing his bachelors degree in 2½ years before attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.[7] He has honorary doctorate degrees from John Brown University and Ouachita Baptist University.

Prior to his political career, Huckabee was pastor of several Southern Baptist churches in Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He encouraged the all-white Immanuel Baptist Church to accept black members. He served as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention from 1989 to 1991 and as president of a religion-oriented television station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee

 

[Shogun]

You are asking the wrong cat about that. I don't usually add any extra respect due to that prefix regardless of what direction it comes from. To me, they are all charlatans (even though many are sincere)


but, I will say that it's awfully damn funny that Ole Huck is all of a sudden playing coy about doctrine and his record of sermons. It seems to me that spiritual validation is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[mattskramer]

And we are supposed to give them some sort of special respect and believe that they are pillars of Christian religion just because someone "ordains" them and they call themselves "Reverand"?

This is why a person's actual record is so important. Jackson and Sharpton's records are not so great imo, given their scandals. I'm not too impressed with Obama's minister either, given his racial bias. And although Huckabee is not all that impressive, as far as I can tell he at least has a decent ministry record.

So I guess that it comes down to where you draw the line? How much less of a record must Huckabee have before you stop recognizing him as an ordained reverend? How much more of a record must Sharpton or Jackson have before you recognize them as ordained reverends?

For me, as long as they have been ordained by a legal establishment that ordains people, and they have not been officially stripped of their ordination by said establishment, I’ll pay them the respect of calling them reverend.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

So I guess that it comes down to where you draw the line? How much less of a record must Huckabee have before you stop recognizing him as an ordained reverend? How much more of a record must Sharpton or Jackson have before you recognize them as ordained reverends?

For me, as long as they have been ordained by a legal establishment that ordains people, and they have not been officially stripped of their ordination by said establishment, I’ll pay them the respect of calling them reverend.

True, it appears to be a rather subjective standard - not quite like the more objective standards that apply to say, Catholic priests.