{"id":29,"date":"2007-09-11T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/thompson-owns-up-to-infrequent.html"},"modified":"2007-09-11T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T23:41:53","slug":"thompson-owns-up-to-infrequent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/thompson-owns-up-to-infrequent.html","title":{"rendered":"Thompson owns up to infrequent church attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the week since he made his candidacy official<\/a>, Thompson has forced enough God-o-Meter recalibrations to make its needle sore. After swinging up yesterday, Thompson\u2019s God-o-Meter is down again, for telling reporters<\/a> he only attends church regularly when in his native Tennessee. \u201cI don’t attend regularly when I’m up there\u201d he said, referring to Northern Virginia, where he lives with his wife and their two children, according to Bloomberg. At the same time, he told a crowd at his first campaign stop in South Carolina that he learned values from \u201csitting around the kitchen table\u201d with his parents and from \u201cthe good Church of Christ.\u201d
\nWhile Thompson\u2019s acting career and (supposed) powers of communication inspire frequent comparisons to Ronald Reagan, the Gipper made a point of learning the evangelical lexicon, once telling a group of conservative pastors that he deserved to go to heaven not for anything he did, but \u201cbecause of what Jesus did for me at Calvary.\u201d In a GOP field where the other top-tier candidates have bigger religion woes than he does, Thompson\u2019s advisors are betting that his won\u2019t do him in among social conservatives. But it\u2019s one more mark against him among a constituency that already has reasons for doubt<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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